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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. How are you doing? I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily

well as we barrel into 2022. These last stories of 2021. As always, I know this has been an

extraordinarily hard couple of years. This ongoing pandemic has really tested the patience of our own

mental health, long with everything else in our lives. But I am extraordinarily grateful

that you have taken the time to come here, to listen to stories, to just forget about the world

for a while. Thank you, on the bottom of my heart, for your ongoing support. And if you're in

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every month. We need you to keep going. It helps every single dollar helps. So our third story for

issue 183 December 2021 is Vegvistida, is by David Goodman. David Goodman, who can be found at David

Goodman.net, is a writer of speculative and thriller fiction based in Eath Lothian Scotland. He is a

member of the Edinburgh SFF writing group and is currently querying his first novel, a near future

thriller set in the aftermath of severe climate change. This is his first published story.

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

That's the thing you have to remember about Kobayashi drivetrains. They work until they don't.

Not like a Selenex or a Rostov unit. Those things tell you all the time how they're feeling.

Grumble, grumble. You're out there in your suit putting on the spray lube, picking bits of

regolith out of the intakes. Every day it feels like with the Kobayashi's, they work flawlessly.

Very fine engineering. But no warning at all when they fail, just bang. No more coupling.

That's fine if you're coming off shift, if you're a tanker to away from a lock and some

breathable, and the Kobayashi is a good unit, well made affordable even with the lift premium,

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