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

Welcome to the first story for the month of December. You almost made it. It's almost been another year.

And it's been another year of your support. It's been a year of you coming to the podcast and listening to yet another story, another world built by yet another author.

And you know how we're able to do that each and every month?

That is with your generous support.

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If you've told a friend about the story that you really,

really liked, if you've checked a few bucks our way via donation, we simply cannot do this

without you. Our first story is titled Tomorrow Today, and is by R.T. Esther. R.T. Esther lives

just outside Dallas, Texas, where he works full-time as a graphic

designer and spends his off hours raising three young kids with his wife. In his spare time, he writes

speculative fiction and has had stories published in Interzone and Clark's World. His debut novel,

The Ganymeden, is out now from Solaris Books. And if you like what you

hear, we've got a few stories from R.T. Esther that you should go back and have a listen to.

Sleeper, which was featured in August 2025, Rake the Leaves, April, 2023. Anayas gets a turn, January, 2023.

Slight Forms, August, 2022,

and meddling fields in March of 2022.

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

relax, and let me tell you a story.

When he came home from the resource center, Mark removed his tote bag filled with binders

and set it next to Malcolm's book bag on the floor. Malcolm was old enough to be home by himself now,

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