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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

And I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit you with the major news of the month in the first

podcast and then I'll just sort of sprinkle reminders of subscriptions and iTunes

ratings and comments on the website unless there's some really awesome news to report

and I just can't wait until the first of the month.

And all that aside I want to thank you if you've already done any of those things I've just

mentioned. It really helps to spread the word of Clark's world to the masses. Now our

second story for the month is a short one and it's titled Ty, psychie by author Andy Dudak.

Andy's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in daily science fiction,

Flash Fiction online, Abyss and Apex Ray Gunn Revival, and other fine venues.

He is a published illustrator and aspiring translator.

He lives in Beijing and knows the forbidden city better than most natives.

You can find him at his website, A N D, D, U, D, A, K,

Tumbler.com.

And again, as I mentioned, this is a short one, so go wash some dishes, unless of course you've just served an entire banquet and the dishes are piled sky high.

Maybe plant a tree or do some weeding, hold some laundry, or take a short walk.

Well, whatever you find while you're listening to this podcast.

I hope it goes splendidly.

I hope you're able to sit back and relax

and let me tell you a story.

The woman who means to kill Vang Shur is like the rest of the universe, apparently frozen, though actually in glacial motion. He has studied the scene for subjective years,

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