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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. I know it's late in the month.

I don't know if money of you follow my Twitter or my Facebook account or have listened to

previous podcasts in the month prior to this.

But my father fell and broke his hip and he didn't just fall and break his hip.

The surgery actually sent his heart into V-Tac and his defibrillator, which he had implanted last year, went off about seven times.

So it's been a long road of recovery and he finally came home at the beginning of September.

It's been a crazy couple of months, all things considered.

And once again, I stand humbly before you and thank you for your patience and your kind words,

and your emails. You truly are a

are a wonderful listenership.

So while we get used to the new routine,

Dad needs a lot of care.

And unfortunately, I'm the one who's doing the majority of it. I don't mind it, but it just it's very taxing.

So hopefully I'll get things back on track and it won't be this mad rush, but thank you again for being there as a listener and as a supporter of Clark's World.

So our second story for the month is titled Little

and is by Eric Schwitz Gable.

Eric is a professor of philosophy at the University of California Riverside

and a cooperating member of the UCR's program in Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science.

His short fiction has appeared in Clark's World, F&SF, Nature, Weird Tales, Apex, Unlikely Story, The Dark, and Elsewhere.

His most recent book, Non-fiction he hopes, his perplexities of consciousness with MIT Press.

At his blog, The Splintered Mind, he posts regularly on issues at the intersection of philosophy,

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