You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast.

Hooray, we've made it.

I hope that Neil posts this just in the nick of time and we've closed out yet another month for 2017. Goodbye September.

October 1st is almost here.

Our last story for issue 132 is titled Warmth and is by Jeff Riemann.

Jeff has an incredibly long bio that you should go over to the Clark's magazine website and look up.

I'm just going to give you a little brief synopsis.

Born in Canada, Jeff now lives in England. He made his first sale in 1976. He's won a ton of awards including

the British Science Fiction Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clark Award, the John

W. Camel Memorial Award.

Four of his novellas have been collected in unconquered countries.

His most recent books are the anthology, When It Changed, the Novel, the Filmm filmmakers of Mars, and the collection Paradise Tales and other stories.

You can also go back to Clark's World Issue June 2014 for Have Not Have.

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

I don't remember the first time I saw Betsy. She was like the air I breathed. She was probably there when I was born.

Betsy looked like a vacuum cleaner, bless her. She had long carpeted arms and a carpeted

top with loops of wool-like hair. She was hugable, vaguely. I don't remember

hugging her much. I do remember working into that wool all kinds of

unsuitable substances spit ice cream, dirt from the pots of basil.

My mother talked to Betsy about my behavior.

Mostly I remember my mother as a freckled and orange blur,

always desperate to be moving,

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