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, very well.

It's October 1st. Can you believe it?

I swear, I turn around and another month has gone by.

Where is all the time going?

With time being precious,

thanks again for listening to the podcast.

It really is one of the best jobs in the world to get to read such wonderful stories and bring them to your ears.

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So thank you, thank you, thank you.

So getting on to the first story of the month,

the piece is titled, Taxidermist in the Underworld and is by Maria Devana Headley.

Now Maria is the author of the upcoming young adult skyship novel, Magonia from Harper Collins, the dark fantasy alternate history novel, Queen of Kings.

The International Best Selling Memoir, The Year of Yes, and the End of the Sentence. a novella co-written with cat

Howard from subterranean with Neil Gaiman she is the New York Times best-selling

co-editor of the Monsternatural Creatures, benefiting 826 DC.

Her Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short fiction has recently appeared on tour.com

and in The Toast, Light Speed, Nightmare

Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Etymology, Sub-Turanian online, Glitter and

Mayhem, and Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and the Book of the Dead, and will soon appear in

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