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 incredibly well.

Welcome to the shortest month of the year. I hope this podcast finds you incredibly well.

Welcome to the shortest month of the year.

This is February 2021, issue 173.

I want to thank you, each and every one of you for your ongoing

support in this new year and in all the years past. Thank you for tweeting. Thank you for sharing how much you love a story. Thank you for sending me an email.

Or some of you coming onto my Twitch channel and saying hello.

You guys are amazing.

And thank you to our subscribers and to those who go to Patreon.com

forward slash Clark's world, every little bit helps.

Helps us bring you great art, great non-fiction, and these podcasts from all the great authors out there.

So our first story for the month of February is titled The Failed Diannas.

Monique Leven is a writer from New York.

Her fiction has appeared in Tiny Nightmares, very short stories of horror.

Her non-fiction has appeared in

catapult and electric literature. She can be summoned with comfortable mid-century

furniture and particularly grisly tales of revenge.

So my dear listener. grisly tales of revenge.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story. The hostess adjusts her glasses when I repeat my name and reservation time.

Of course, she says, we switched you from the balcony seating to the chef's table. We hope you don't mind.

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