You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you very, very well.

It is August 2017 and you know what that

means it means a brand new month of stories and as I usually like to do at the

beginning I want to implore you to support the magazine, please.

Don't make me beg.

Okay, I beg every podcast, but still, don't make me really beg. The simple gist of the matter is we can't do this without you.

And I'm not exactly sure what's been going on, but we saw it last month too, where people are pulling their pledges.

And we understand if it's a financial matter and you can't

afford to support us at this point in time. I hope you do come back. But if you are on the fence or you haven't just gotten around to it, I can't express to you enough how important it is that you go to patreon.com

forward slash Clark's World magazine and show your support somehow a dollar it's less

than a cup of coffee a month come on guys anything helps And who knows, maybe we'll actually reach a threshold where I'm not

sitting here begging every month for money. But that's all up to you guys. You know I love you. And if you are a continued supporter of the

magazine in a monetary or word of mouth or you buy an anthology at a table, you are amazing. Thank you.

So our first story for the month of August 2017, Issue 131, is titled Twisted Knotts and is by D. A. Jowlin Spires.

D. A. Jowlin Spires stares at skies and wonders what there is to eat out there in the

Cosmos. Spires aspires to be a 3D printer, replicator gormand, but will happily concede with producing and consuming

quixotic fiction and poetry. Trips to East and Southeast Asia continue to influence her writing and leave her craving

Duryan, fermented foods, and copious amounts of wonder that fuel her body spirit and imagination.

She currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan. You can find her huddled in a mosquito net speeding through night markets and

trudging up the Escheresque subway stairs scattered across this urban landscape.

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