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

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our second story left for January 2019 issue 148.

The piece is titled Left to Take the Lead

and is by Marissa Lingan.

Marissa Lingan is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in the Minneapolis suburbs.

Her work has appeared in Tor.com, beneath ceaseless skies, strange horizons,anny, and more.

You can find Marissa at her website, Marissa Lingen.com.

And also if you like what you hear, you can go back to December 2009 for the grandmother, granddaughter, conspiracy.

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So my dear listeners, please sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The day I found out my Uncle Will was still alive. I had been out spraying the crops in a full crinkly hazmat suit. The earthers I was working for

were nice people but they always wind about the suits. To me they seemed light and

airy, hardly even an annoyance compared to a vacuum suit,

so I was the one who would get sent out first when the sprayer, when the blight warnings came in from

the provincial capital in Edmonton.

I didn't mind.

It was the tenth month of my indenture on earth,

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