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

Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast is finding you very, very well. I am still catching up and hopefully will be caught up by the end of this week and will get you to the current issue.

Thank you again for your patience and for your ongoing support.

It has been a very challenging back half of the year more ways than one on a personal note and on a magazine note.

So everything that you're doing for us is amazing and we cannot do this without you.

So thank you.

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where you can donate as little or as well. Patreon if you decide to do so. And I want to thank all the listeners who have been

sending me email saying why you have enjoyed the podcast, what made you stay,

what you're doing while you're listening.

It's stuff like that that really, really makes me smile.

I forward them to kneel, if appropriate.

And it helps us during the times where we're a little low to know that the work

that we're doing matters so thank you. So our fifth story for the month of November 2023 issue 2006 is called the Mubb is by Thomas

Ha.

And Thomas Ha is a former attorney turned stay-at-home father who enjoys writing speculative

fiction during the rare moments when all of his kids are napping at the same time.

Thomas grew up in Honolulu and after a decade- of living in the northeast now resides in Los Angeles.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to Window Boy and Sweet Baby.

Sorry dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story. Somewhere between the black slopes and the longest stretch of the cratered plains, I came across a traveler who I thought might be leaving the city and headed for the nested forests. I greeted him

from a distance just as the road curved around a copse of crooked and dry-skinned pines,

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