You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

I want to give a big shout out to those who took the time to write me an email on what they do when they're listening to the

podcast or what they do in general. A lot of you listen on the way to work or on the way

home. A few of you, which I'm still awed by, helps to inspire the creative side of your art.

For those who use this as an inspiration to make good art.

That's awesome.

And a few of you have even told me that

I'm the voice that puts you to sleep every single night.

I'll have to come up with a nice lullaby to sing to you.

Maybe on the next podcast, but keep those letters coming. It doesn't have to be long.

Just let me know who you are, what you're doing,

why you listen to the podcast,

any particular stories that you've really enjoyed over the last year or so.

It's sort of my informal poll that Neil does every

year. Like I said, I want to get to know my listeners. You hear me every single podcast. I want to know who you are. If you're

comfortable with that, of course. So our second story of the month is by Maggie Clark, the title of which is The Aftermath.

Now Maggie's had two other pieces here at Clark's World, one of which is a non-fiction

piece titled When the Alien is Us,

science-fictional documentaries, which was featured in May 2013,

and Aquatica, which was her fiction piece featured in November 2012.

Now Maggie is a doctoral student at Wilfred Loyer University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,

where she applies the tools of literary analysis to 19th century scientific

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