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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very, very well.

Where? Where, where,, where did the summer go?

I can't keep up with father time.

It seems like I wake up.

I close my eyes and another day is just gone and I know time is

very precious to all of us so here's a big thank you for spending this time with

me. Our third story for the month of August is The Saint of the Sidewalks and is by author

Cat Howard. Now Cat is the World Fantasy Award nominated author of over 20 pieces of short fiction.

Her work has been performed on NPR as part of selected shorts and has appeared in Light Speed,

Sub-Tyranian, and Apex, among other venues.

Her novella, the end of the sentence, written with Maria Devana Hedley, will be out in September

from Subtaranium Press.

You can find her on her Twitter as at Cat with Sword and that's Cat with a K.

Website can be found at strange ink.

blog spot. com.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, or do whatever it is you're doing, whether it be walking, running,

jogging, wogging, dishes, gardening. Or as a lot of you have put it to me

an email, falling asleep. I'll try not to get too loud and let me tell you a story.

Joan wrote her prayer with a half-used tube of Chanel Vamp that she had found discarded at the 34th Street subway stop.

It glided across the cardboard the flip side of a stolly box torn and bent and left her words in a glossy slick

the color of dried blood. I need a miracle. You were supposed to be specific when asking the saint of the sidewalks for an intervention,

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