Hello there and welcome to the Clark's World Magazine podcast. My name is Kate Baker and I'll be your host and narrator for this particular issue.

We're on issue number 39 for December. Now if you're like me you're kind of

wondering where November went. It just seems like yesterday I was recording

another intro for this particular podcast.

I hope with all the busy planning and running around trying to find the perfect gift for the holidays,

you can take a couple minutes and listen to a most wonderful and very intriguing story.

Now I'm going to be a good little girl and not spoil it for you before it begins, but I will tell you

that from the moment this story starts, it will take you down paths you will never see coming. So I invite you to listen to Night in Dark Perfection by

Richard Parks. Oh and one last thing I just realized yet again that it's December, and, well, I'm not going to talk to you guys for a month, where we ring in a brand new year, 2010. So from all of us at

Clark's World magazine we hope that you have a most wonderful joyous and safe holiday and

New Year.

Now, where was I? Oh yeah, let me tell you a story.

Night in Dark Perfection by Richard Parks.

In the domain of the Fairy Queen it was always night, and the sky as seen from her palace was always cold, black and full of stars, and she was always

heartbreakingly beautiful. She would have it no other way. On this particular never changing, never ending night, she had

decreed a ball and as she stood before the window in her palace she looked at the stars while her maids got her ready.

Has everyone answered?

She asked.

All but the Marquesa of Shadow's majesty, they told her.

Perhaps one of them said it, perhaps all of them said it.

To the Fairy Queen, it made little difference.

They all looked at her with the same fixed expressions.

...