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.

This has been a busy month for me. I was busily preparing for the Sifua Nebula conference.

So hence, while these are all grouped together at the end of the month instead of spread throughout.

And yes, it can be sometimes difficult when life has other plans.

So I hope you can be gentle with me as I try to get my stuff back in order,

considering what a crazy last six months my life has been.

Again, I want to thank you for reaching out.

Those of you who sent me multiple messages. Again, I want to thank you for reaching out.

Those of you who sent me multiple messages about how sorry you were to hear that my father passed.

And those who had words of encouragement that things will start to get better.

You are right.

And if any of you are going through the same thing and you need a friendly voice, I'm here.

And I'm here to tell you that hopefully very soon they will get better for you too.

So our second story is Move Forward,

Disappear, Transcend. It's for issue 152, May 2019 and is by AT Green Blatt. AT Green Blatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a

writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she's known to frequently

subject her friends to various cooking and

home brewing experiments.

She is a graduate of viable paradise and Clarion West.

Her work has been nominated for a Nebula Award,

has been in multiple years best anthologies and has appeared in uncanny beneath

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