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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to our fourth story for the month of December 2023 issue 207. I hope whether this is your first story or somewhere near a thousand at this point I hope that you'll enjoy what you're about to hear.

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Now our story is titled, Waffles are only goodbye for now.

It's by Ryan Cole. Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snugly pug child.

He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and his work has appeared in Amber Journal,

Voyage YA Journal,

and the Bram Stoker Award nominated anthology,

Mother, Tales of Love and Terror,

Weird Little Worlds Press.

He is a full member of Cifwa and HWA.

So my dear listener, hope he can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

War meant a new life for a refrigeration unit B3.R.T.

4A or Bertha.

As her now dead family liked to call her, before they been buried in the

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