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

Greetings, Clarkshield citizens. Long time no hear.

It seems like I can't catch a break. I had gotten all these podcasts all set and caught up by the

time that my new husband and I went on our honeymoon. And then, guess what happened? I caught COVID

on our new honeymoon, and I lost my voice for a good two weeks. And then my husband also got COVID,

and we've both been coughing up a storm. So I'm going to recommend that if you are able to do so,

this wave is lasting quite a while for some people. So please, if you're eligible to do so,

get a booster. Talk to your doctor about it. Otherwise, it's going to take a couple of weeks,

if not a couple of months to get back on track. I still have a cough. Not great. And I'm going to

try to get all these podcasts on so that you can listen. So thank you for your ongoing support

and your ongoing patience. I am so very sorry. Our second story for the month of September, 2023,

issue 204 is titled The Queen of Caligraphic Sossurations and is by DA Shaolin Spires.

Now, DA Shaolin Spires has done a ton of stories for us here at Clarkshield. She steps into

portals and reappears in sites such as Hawaii, New York, various parts of Asian elsewhere with

her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears in publications such as Clarkshield, analog,

nature, terraform, fireside, starline, liquid imagination, and anthologies such as MakeShift,

ride the starwind, sharp and sugar tooth, deep signal, and battling in all her finery.

Selected stories can be read in German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Estonian, French and Japanese translation.

And if you like what you hear, there is a ton of stories you can go back to listen to if you

so should choose. And those are symbiosis. Zhao Longbao, soup dumplings, Mama Borg's milk and the

brilliance of gems, last wishes, and the iridescent lake. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back

relax. Finally, relax. And finally, let me tell you a story. Windly plucked off one of

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