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

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I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Welcome to our third story for the month of March 2017.

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So our third story is titled,

Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe.

This is for issue number 126, March 2017. The piece is by

Naomi Kritzer. She won a Hugo last year for her work Cat Pictures Please

Which if you haven't gone and listened to yet you can find it over in January 2015. She also had BITS, which was October 2013. And one of my favorite

stories, So Much Cooking, was November 2015.

Naomi Critzer 1. was November 2015.

Naomi Kritzer won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for her story Cat Pictures Please, which originally appeared in Clark's World. She also won the Locust Award for the

story and was nominated for the Nebula Award. This is her fourth appearance in

Clark's World. Her short stories have also appeared in Asimov's Analog, The

Magazine of Fantasy and science fiction,

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