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

Welcome to the first story for July, 26, issue 238.

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You've made it halfway through the year.

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and all the myriad ways you have helped support this magazine become what it is today. Thank you

from the bottom of my heart. And even though I know we're into a new issue with a new editorial,

I just want to draw more attention back to the editorial from last month,

where we are trying to increase our subscriptions so that we can pay the people who put this all together

behind the scenes a little bit more.

So thank you if you've already jumped on that bandwagon and helped us out.

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Our story for the first of July is The Life and Times of the Extraterrestrial Petoo.

By K.J. Khan. K.J. Khan is a writer, artist, and mom from Indiana, though she currently lives in

Rhode Island. Her short fiction has appeared in Clark's World mom from Indiana, though she currently lives in Rhode Island.

Her short fiction has appeared in Clark's World and Mysterian.

When she's not writing, painting, or reading, she enjoys the chaotic company of her children.

She always enjoys the evenings, when they are asleep, and she and her husband actually get to finish their sentences.

If you like what you hear, there are two others you can go back to and listen.

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