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.

This is our second story for the month of February 2019,

Issue 149. Thank you as always for your support and if you haven't been able to

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Our second story is titled Painwise

and is by Robert Reed.

Robert Reed is the author of nearly 300 published stories, plus more than a dozen novels.

He is best known for his great ship stories, including the memory of sky.

And for the novella, A Billion Eaves, which won the Hugo Award in 2007.

He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.

You can find Robert at Robert reedwriter.com.

Robert is no stranger to Clark's World here. He has got a ton of stories. His most

recents, March 2017 brought you two ways of living. July 2017 brought you the significance of significance.

February 2018 brought you obliteration, and August 2018 brought you King Fisher. So my dear listeners I do hope that you can sit back

relax and let me tell you a story. Nobody knows what happened except that I was four and standing near the top of the stairs.

And then suddenly I had reached the bottom of the stairs.

And those were some very bad stairs. Steep and old made from maple or oak or another tough wood. My mother,

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