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 and I do apologize for the delay in getting the seventh and the 14th podcast up.

I returned from my short vacation with no voice and a really nasty cough.

I did try recording yesterday, but it sort of sounded like somebody was ripping out my vocal

chords every five minutes, or I'd had to stop to cough.

I'm really hoping that I can get through today's recording.

And I don't think the voice sounds that terrible, do you?

Our second story for the month is titled, Pernicious Romance is by a Clark's World

Familiar Robert Reed.

If you listen to or read the story Whole,

which was featured in June 2014

or Mystic Falls in November 2013,

or Guest of Honor, in April 2013.

There was also Prayer, May 2012, Hack, September 2011, the Cull, September. 1,

the Cull, September 2010,

and a women's best friend, December 2008.

As you can see, we love Robert here at Clark's World.

And Robert has published 11 novels starting with The Leashore in 1987,

and most recently with The Well of Stars in 2004.

Since winning the first annual El-Ron-Hubber writers of the Future Contest in 1986 under the

Pen name Robert Touslin, and being a finalist for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Rider in 1987, he has

had over 200 shorter works published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.

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