You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast. I'm your host Kate Baker.

Thank you so much for joining us for this last story for the month of February 2020,

Issue 161. You might have noticed I said, host and not narrator, because as you've heard,

in the previous short story for the month, we had a guest narrator,

and I'm happy to announce that Alethea Contus will be reading

this particular story for you.

Now Alethea Contus is a New York Times best-selling author. She has a princess,

storm chaser, and geek. Author over 20 books and 40 short stories. Alethea is the

recipient of numerous awards.

She has been nominated twice for both the Andre Norton Nebula and the Dragon Award as well.

When not writing or Stormchasing, Aleithia narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines,

contributes regular Y-E-book reviews to NPR, and hosts Princess Alethea's traveling side show every year at DragonCon.

Born in Vermont, she currently resides on the space coast of Florida with her Teddy Bear

Charlie.

And you could find out more about Princess Aleithia and her wonderful world at Aleithia Contest.com.

So thank you once again Aleithia for lending your voice acting talents to yet

another Clarks World Podcast. Our last story for the month is titled Generation Gap and is by Thariah Dyer.

Thariah Dyer is an Aurelis and Ditmar Award winning Sydney-based writer and veterinarian.

Her short fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in analog, Clark's World, Apex, Cosmos, Nature,

The anthology, Bridging, Infinity, and Boutique Collection asymmetry.

Theria's novels, Crossroads of Canopy,

Echoes of Understory, and Tides of Titans are published by Tour Books.

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