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 very well. This is the final podcast for the short month of February.

I hope you've enjoyed them all so far. And being that it's the last podcast, I'm just going to jump

right into it. The piece is titled Martian Heart and is by

John Barnes. Now John has 31 commercially published in two self-published novels

some of them to his credit along along with hundreds of magazine articles,

short stories, blog posts, and encyclopedia articles.

Most of his life he has written professionally, and for much of it he has been some kind of teacher and in between he has held a large

number of odd jobs including math show business politics and marketing which have

more in common than you'd think. He is married and lives in Denver. You can find John

at his website at that John Barnes, that blog spot.com.

So, thank you for being a supporter, thank you for being a listener,

thank you for spending the month of February with us.

So sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

Okay, but Terigator, I agreed to this.

Now you're supposed to guide me to tell my story

to inspire a new generation of Martians.

It is so weird that there is a new generation of Martians.

So hit me with the questions or whatever it is you do.

Hmm, do I want to be consistent with previous public statements?

Well, every time they ask me where I got all the money and got to be such a big

turd in the toilet that is Mars, I always say Samantha was my inspiration.

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