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This is our fourth story for the month of August 2018, issue 143.

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Our fourth story is titled The Privilege of the Happy Ending, and is by Kitch Johnson.

Kitch is not a stranger here to Clarks World magazine.

She is the author of several novels including The Fox Woman and the Foodoke, and a short story

collection at the mouth of the River of Bees.

She is a three-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the Hugo World Fantasy, Sturgeon, and Crawford Awards.

In the past she has worked in publishing, edited cryptic crosswords, waitress in a strip bar, identified Napa Cabernets by winery and ear while blindfolded,

and climbed an occasional V5.

These days she teaches at the University of Kansas where she is Associate Director for the Center of the Study of Science Fiction.

You could find Kitch at her website, Kitz Johnson.com.

Now this is a long story, so coming in over 15,000 words I invite you

listener to sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

This is a story that ends as all stories do,

eventually, in deaths. When Aida's parents died in the winter of her sixth year, she was sent to the neighboring parish to live with her aunt, Marjorie.

Marjorie was a widow with three daughters all older than Ada, and their

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