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

Greetings loyal Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. This is the second

podcast in the month of December 2010. So how are your holidays or your holiday preparations coming?

Have you gotten all those presents yet?

Or have you forgotten somebody, usually like I do?

So can I make a tiny gift suggestion? If you elect to donate $10 or more to Clark's World magazine,

you can give the gift of Clark's World Citizenship.

It's a pretty neat gift.

Your name is forever immortalized in print.

Who wouldn't love that?

I know when I donated before I ended up being staff,

that it was a pretty neat feeling to open up and seeing your name in a printed book.

So why not consider it?

Like I said, just $10 or more, you can give the gift of citizenship to somebody else or you can

keep it selfishly like the Grinch for yourself.

So now on to our second fiction of the Month for December 2010.

The Children of Main Street by AC Wise.

AC Wise was born and raised in Montreal and currently lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Her work has previously appeared in places like Strange Horizons, Fantasy magazine,

and Chai'sine. For more information, or fantasy magazine and chiseen.

For more information or just to drop by and say hi, visit her blog at a seewise. live journal.com

and now it is my pleasure to read you a story.

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