You are listening to the Clark's World Magazine Podcast with your host Kate Baker,

podcast director. Podcast Director.

Greetings loyal Clark's World Citizens and welcome to the February 2010 edition of the Clark's World Magazine audio podcast. To those of you who've sworn off the New Year already,

here's hoping for a better February.

Before we begin today's fiction, a big shout out

to everyone who came by the site in January.

Thank you for helping us break all of our records last month.

Downloads, site visits, I know that I mentioned it in the second podcast of the month, but we can't

thank you enough for showing your support for Clarksville magazine. So thank you

for taking the time out of your busy schedules to stop by and leave comments or download

a podcast or recommend a story to a friend.

So now our fiction, this month is from the amazing and prolific Jay Lake.

For those of you who don't know who Jay Lake is, Jay lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

He is the author of in Portland, Oregon.

He is the author of over 200 short stories,

four collections in the chat book,

along with novels from tour books, nightshade books,

and Fairwood Press.

In 2004, J won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

He has also been a Hugo nominee for his short fiction and three-time World Fantasy Award nominee for his editing.

So without further ado, let's get to this wonderful piece of fiction by J. Lake.

Let me tell you a story.

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