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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our second to the last podcast for May 2019 issue 152. And if you stuck with us throughout May or even earlier or months earlier or years earlier. Thank you for stopping by and listening.

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So our second to the last story is titled, The Sodden

from both sides, and is by RSA Garcia.

RSA Garcia's debut science fiction mystery novel Lex Taliones received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best

Sci-Fi Fantasy Horror E-book from the Independent Publishers Awards.

She has published short fiction with Abyss and Apex, Supersonic magazine, and The Apex Book of World

SF volume five.

She lives in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, with an extended family and far too many dogs.

You can find her at her website rSA Garcia.com.

And if you like what you hear, August 2018 brought you the anchor right wakes.

So my dear listener I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Once a woman loved a man, and a man loved a woman. They lived in a forest in a small stone gray hut set far enough back from a river to escape the seasonal floods.

Every day they woke to a too soft mattress and turned their faces to each other before they open their

eyes. Her smile would curve her lips as she lay her hand on his cheek and he would sigh and

nuzzle her palm.

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