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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of February 2019 issue 149.

Thank you once again for sticking by us as we give you stories each and every month. Thank you for supporting us via

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listening every little bit helps to drive the magazine forward.

Our third story is titled The Final Assent

is by Ian Crecy.

Ian Crecy lives in Yorkshire, England.

He began writing when rock and roll stardom failed to return his calls.

A collection of his SF stories, The Shapes of Strangers,

is forthcoming from New Khan Press in April 2019.

You can find more at his website Ian Creasy.com

and that's IANC-S-E-Y.

So my dear listeners, I'm not gonna waste any more time.

I'm gonna jump right into the story,

so I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I'd seen a hologram of my withered lungs and heard the doctors tell me, I only had a few days left.

So when Catherine arrived at my bedside, I couldn't help reflecting that she was the last woman in my life.

It had ended a year ago.

She preferred the aliens company to mine, but still...

Cath, would you kiss me?

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