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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our first story for the month of January.

A whole new year.

We made it to 2021.

This year is full of possibilities.

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and every month. Now our first story is titled Intentionalities and is by Amy Ogden.

Amy Ogden is a former software tester and science teacher.

Now she writes stories about sad astronauts and angry princesses.

Her work has also appeared in analog and beneath ceaseless

skies. And with Bennett North, she co- edits Trans Lunar Travelers' Lounge, a scene of fun and

optimistic speculative fiction.

In 2021, her novellas, son daughters,

see daughters, and local star will be available from tour.com

and Interstellar Flight Press, respectively. So my dear listener I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you

a story. Sorrell never intended to confer a child to the Braxos Corporation, but Sorrell had never intended a lot of things that managed to happen with or without her say-so.

She had scarcely marched across the auditorium. to happen with or without her say so.

She had scarcely marched across the auditorium, diploma in hand,

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