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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

I would like to introduce you to the narrator of this particular short story.

Some of you might remember Aleithia Contis. Now, New York Times best-selling author Alethea Contus is a princess, storm chaser, and geek.

Author of over 20 books and 40 short stories, Aletheia is the recipient of the Scribe Award,

the Garden State Teen Book Award,

and two-time winner of the Gellet Burgess Children's Book Award.

She has been twice nominated for both the Andre Norton

Nebula and the Dragon Award. When not writing or Storm Chasing, Alethea

narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines, contributes regular YA book reviews to NPR,

and hosts Princess Eleithia'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.

Find out more about Princess Aleithia and her wonderful world at Aleithia Contest.com.

Now our fifth story for the month of February 2020,

issue 161, is titled Jigsaw Children and is by Grace Chan. Grace Chan is a Melbourne-based speculative

fiction writer and doctor. Her family immigrated from Malaysia to Australia

before her first birthday. She completed a medical degree in 2012 and is

currently working in training in psychiatry. In her downtime she enjoys coffee, space

operas, and thinking about where we come from and where we are all going.

Her writing can be found in Australian publications such as Going Downswinging and Virge 2019,

uncanny. Her novella, The Ship of Theseus, was shortlist. Virgin Grace Chan Rights. She can also be found at Grace Chan Rights.com.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let Alithia Contis tell you a story. Hong Kong, China,

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