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 well.

This is our second podcast for the month of November 2011,

and I am fretting that Halloween decorations have been replaced with Christmas ornaments and trees in the neighborhood stores.

It all has gone by pretty fast, huh?

I want to once again thank Mike Allen for stepping in at the last moment to take over for the podcast.

As most of you know already, I was traveling in San Diego for the World Fantasy Convention and arrived home to Connecticut to see that we had 20 inches of snow on the ground and it looked like a war zone. We were without power from Saturday evening, the 29th I believe, to the following Saturday evening. So it was a wild ride. But thank you for all of the comments and support as I went through

freezing to death in my own house.

So thanks again, Mike.

And thank you for all the listeners who supported Mike in his reading. So our second story of the month comes from a Clark's World Familiar.

Levy Tatar.

Levy's most recent novel is Osama, he has publishing.

It has been compared to Philip K Dick's seminal work, a man in the High Castle by both the Guardian and the Financial Times.

His other works include Steam Punk trilogy, The Bookman, Hammerra Obscura, and the forthcoming The Great Game, all three from Angry Robot.

The novellas Jesus in the Eightfold Path, Immersion Press, Gorel and the Potbellied God,

PS publishing, and many others.

His website can be found at L-A-V-I-E-T-I-D-H-A-R, got Wordpress. i.e. T. I. H. A. R. dot WordPress. com. As I mentioned, Lavi has been here many times. Back in 2006, he had a story entitled

304 Adolf Hitler Strauss.

April 2009 brought us the dying world,

and most recently, February 2010, the language of the whirlwind.

So without further ado, let me tell you a story.

The smell. Story

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