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 third story for the month of March 2020, issue 162.

And wherever this podcast finds you, whether it's in self-quarantine, or you're one of the essential people that is keeping this economy and our hospitals going.

Thank you. Thank you for stopping by and listening. Thank you for spending this time with me

and the authors here at Clark's World. I hope you're hanging in there. Here's a big hug for me to you guys.

Our story is titled Leave Taking and is by M. L. Clark.

Canadian by birth, Clark is the published author of science and speculative

fiction stories in Analog, Clark's World, and Light Speed,

as well as in three years best anthologies, among other publications.

Other writing projects include poetry, reviews, essays, especially for a secular humanist column at

Patios.com, another white atheist in Colombia, and a novel in the universe

to catch all sorts of flying things and leavetaking. You can find Emmel Clark

their website Maggie Clark.org.

And if you like what you hear, there are plenty to go back to by this particular author.

November 2012 brought you Aquatica. May 2013 brought you when the alien is us, science

fictional documentaries. November 2013 brought you the aftermath. May 2014 brought you a gift in time. December 2016

brought you a tower for the coming world. And September 2019 brought you to catch all sorts of flying things.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

One.

Hey Sylv, Lee, I here. I ever tell you about the time I made first contact after one of our breakups.

I didn't, I'm sure I didn't because Stars, is it ever embarrassing?

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