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 extraordinarily well.

It is the 1st of May. And with the 1st of May comes a brand new issue, issue 128. We have some pretty awesome stories for you this month, so after this one I hope

you come back and listen to the rest as they come out. And as always, thank you so much for supporting the magazine.

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So our first story for the month of May,

issue 128, is titled Streams and Mountains

and is by Nick Woolvin.

Nick Woolvin is a science fiction and fantasy author. His stories can be found in Asimov's Lady

Churchill's Rosebud Rislet, Paradox, Apex, FNSF, and Clark's World. You can find out more about him at his

website Nick the Woolin.com.

And if you like what you hear, February 2016 brought you in the midst of life.

So I hope you can sit back, relax, or continue to do whatever it is you're doing at this moment

while listening to me, talk in your ear.

And you know, let me tell you a story.

Man discovers fire.

Man discovers philosophy.

Man discovers philosophy. Man discovers boredom. What is it about the squatting position Mary Elland wondered?

Looking down at Paul's bent back that calls to mind contemplative pursuits.

The breeze picked up, the forest shivered.

A thatch of red cedar boughs 200 feet above shook down droplets on her head. Mary pulled up her

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