You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast. I am your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clerke's Clerksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to our December issue as we gear up for the holidays, I just

want to say thank you. Thank you for spending all of this time with me and our

incredible authors here at Clark's World.

I wouldn't have this particular job if it weren't for you coming to listen.

So, my deepest thanks, my warmest hugs, and all my love to you and yours this holiday season.

And I hope that you're doing well and if you aren't, I hope things get better very soon.

Our first story for the month of December, Issue 159, is titled,

Such thoughts Are Unproductive

is by Rebecca Campbell.

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer and teacher.

Her work has appeared in the year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy,

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Tour.com,

The magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Interzone.

New West Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013.

She mostly uses her PhD in Canadian literature

to make up sad futures and weird fictions.

You can follow her at her website,

where is here.

So my dear listeners, I hope wherever you you are cozy you are comfortable you are wrapped up in

blankets maybe with a cup of tea or if you're driving you are safe but I hope you can sit back, twice, Her face smiling, froze in a cloud of pixels, while her arm, the wide emphatic

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