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You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

If you are going to be in the Burlington Mass area for Reader-Con, come say hi to both Neil,

Sean, and I at the Clarks rolled and prime books table in the dealer's room at Reader-Con.

We'll be there the whole weekend, and we'd love to see you if you would stop by.

We'll also be selling chatbooks and I think Sean is also going to have his own table full of books

that you can buy as well. So come by, say hello and if you can support the magazine. Our second story for the month of July is titled Further North and is by

Kay Kronister. Hayes Fiction won the 2015 Dell magazine award and has appeared in beneath ceaseless skies.

Originally from Seattle, she currently lives in Nam Fen, Cambodia and a household of 21

children and six dogs.

So I invite you to sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

In Turkey we loved the animals we tended. In Alaska, we hope they won't wake when we ride past them.

A sleep with their bodies buried in the snow and their eyes frozen shut.

The Helmines look more like landforms than hookworms.

But if temperatures rise too much,

if they wake up. We siphon a lot of blood from their bodies trying to

cure the disease they spread. They wake up hungry and anemic and furious.

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