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.

We've got a short fifth one for you for issue number 124 January 2017. The piece is titled Mia and is by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emmanuela Valentini and is translated by Rich Larson.

Italian writer Lorenzo Crescentini currently resides in Rome. He received both the Space

Prophecies Award and the Rittorno-A-Donwich Award. And his work has been shortlisted for the robot Italia and

Kataris Awards among others. His stories appear in numerous magazines and

anthologies including his personal collection, Aoki Sensavolt.

Published by Editrice G.

In 2012, in 2016, he edited the collection, Dinosoria for Edzioni Benjamin.

Emmanuela Valentini was born and resides in Rome.

She is the author of La Bambina Censic Warre, Ophelia

Elle Ophicini, Dille Temple, Angile diplastica. In the Red Psychodelia series, a cyberpunk retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

She received the robot award and Kricelide Mondadori Award.

And her work has also been shortlisted for the Yuraniya Award.

And if you're a constant listener of Clark's World, you know the name

Rich Larson. He's an author, translator, and all-around awesome guy.

And he had a story last month in Clark's World in the January 2017 issue.

I highly suggest you go back and read his work. He's one of my favorites.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

She revealed her name on the second day, under the light of a sunset.

Merrick had mistaken the fairy-like voice in his he'd reconsidered. He had encountered stranger things in his explorations than this

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