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

Greetings, Clarkshould citizens. Welcome to the first story for the month of April.

Issue 223.

We have no April Fool's jokes to start off our podcast.

Just a plea, please, if you can, go and check out Neil's editorial from this particular month.

All of his editorials are great, but this one in particular gives you a bit of perspective on some of the challenges that we face

and some of the hopes and goals that we want to accomplish while we're still putting this thing together

for you every month. And as always, we cannot do this without your support. So if you can

continue to do so, if you already are, a subscriber, you've got a patron.com forward slash

Clarksworld. If you've gone to Clarksvillecitizens.com, if you've shared the story that you particularly liked with a friend, if you've nominated it for an award, telling us our work matters really helps us us.

Supporting it with your money helps us even more.

I know that I often say, we can't do this without you, but we literally can't.

So our first story is titled, Through These Moments, Darkly, and is by Samantha Murray.

Samantha Murray's fiction has appeared in Clark's World, Asimov's, Strange Horizons,

the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, light speed, interzone, fantasy magazine

beneath ceaseless skies, and a skate pod, among other places. Samantha is a two-time

Orioles Award winner, and her work has been translated in a Chinese and Vietnamese. Samantha lives

in Western Australia in a household of unruly boys. And if you like what you hear, and go back to

somewhere, it's about to be spring,

reserved in amber, of sight, of mind, of heart.

So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The portals have always been there, at least theoretically.

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