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

Greetings collateral citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our fourth story for the month of November 2020, Issue 170.

I hope you're hanging in there. I know it's tough, but you got this. We've got this together.

Anytime you put on your headphones, or listen to me on a drive,

while doing the dishes or whatever else

that you do to listen to this podcast

to help you relax.

You're already taking one step for you

to combat all of the things that are happening and that is

important so thank you for your ongoing support I wouldn't be here unless it was

for you. So our story is titled Lost in Darkness and Distance and is by Clara Madrigano.

Clara Madrigano is a Brazilian author of speculative fiction.

She publishes in both Portuguese and in English and has a passion for love-lorn monsters,

wicked women, and dysfunctional families. You can find her horror fiction in the dark.

You can find her at Clara Madrigano.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Charlie wasn't a ghost standing in the corners of the house, but at the same time he was everywhere. He had been haunting my thoughts since we received Uncle

Jamie's emails and the plane tickets. Now everyone gathered at our mother's house

my childhood home to come to a decision. We barely said anything as we ate. The five of us,

Dede, was the only one who had already made up her mind. I'll go, even if you decide.

Even if you guys decide you're not. She had confided in me the night before as we struggled to get any sleep in her bed.

Our twin nieces were sleeping in my old bedroom. In the darkness she carefully scanned my face, waiting

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