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 extraordinarily well.

It is March 1st, 2020, Issue 162.

Spring is just around the corner for us in the US, and hopefully the weather will start to get a little bit warmer.

I want to thank each and every one of you for spending the time with me, and with our authors, as we tell you wonderful stories each and every month.

Thank you so much for your support.

If you can go to Patreon.com forward slash Clark's World,

you can see how you can be a part of this magazine and how he put it together.

So our first story for the month is titled Time Reveals the Heart and is by Derek Konskin.

Derek is a writer of science fiction, fantasy,

and sometimes accidentally horror.

He writes and reads both novel length and short fiction with a preference for work that explores really strange

places and people. A featured author in Clark's World magazine, go check out Ghosts of Ganymede. Solaris books published his novel The Quantum Garden, and he's done work on a comic called Briarwood

with artist Wendy Mulden.

You can find more about Derek over at his website Derek Kunkin.com.

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

Guale mounted the stairs to his mother's apartment at seven in the morning.

He hadn't visited in two weeks.

He never knew what he would find.

It was early, but he had a launch today, maybe several,

and no matter what, he tried to see his mother before every launch just in case.

When silence answered his knocks, he used to ski.

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