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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Whether this is your first or your 550th somewhere around there, or maybe somewhere in the middle,

thank you for your ongoing support.

And welcome!

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And if you can't seem to do that, no worries.

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Thank you if you have been one of those who has already done that.

And I realize that this first story of the month of June is really at the end of the month

of June, and I want to thank you for your ongoing patience and that respect.

Being the executive director for the science fiction and fantasy writers of America, we had

our annual conference back in early June.

So it was a little bit of a hectic rush to try to get things done.

So we'll be getting things back on track for the rest of the month and going forward.

I hope you can join us for that.

Now our first story is titled Little Animals and is by Nancy Cress.

Nancy Cress is the author of 35 books, including 27 novels, four collections of short stories

and three books on writing.

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