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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

Seems like yesterday I was just released. Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

It seems like yesterday I was just releasing the first story for the month of May.

Time flies when you're super busy, but being super busy doesn't mean I can't take a couple minutes to thank you and shout out to those

who took the time out of their schedules to say hello on the Clarksville magazine

podcast or on the story itself by Robert Reed.

So Bernard, Suzanne Cowboy Hill, Matthew Nielsen, Andy Tate,

twisted sci-fi, Kalita, Scat Cat PDX, and our friends who have left us comments and ratings on iTunes, Work Dog, Vision Online, with Spirit, and T-Baron too.

Thank you!

Thank you so much.

As this podcast continues to grow,

it is so wonderful to hear from the listeners you carry me with you

throughout the day whether it's via your earphones on your MP3 player or through

speakers or on a car stereo, so the very least that I can do is to say thank you.

So on to our second piece of fiction for May 2012, issue number 68.

Cink me, kiss me, drop.

Our author for today's story is Suzanne Church.

She lives near Toronto, Ontario with her two teenage sons.

She is a 2012 Aurora Award finalist for her short fiction. She writes science fiction,

fantasy, and horror because she enjoys them all and hates to play favorites. Amen.

When cornered, she becomes fiercely Canadian. Her stories have appeared in

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