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.

After this story, we've got two more in the queue for you this month.

I hope you enjoyed that extra story.

And if you like the six story format per month, please, all it needs is a little push.

With your support or contribution to the magazine,

we grow ever closer in making that a reality.

So our fourth story for the month of April, 2014, is titled,

Water in Springtime.

And is written by Kali Wallace. Now Kali studied studied geology and geophysics before she decided she enjoyed

inventing imaginary worlds as much as she liked researching the real one. Her short fiction has appeared in

the magazine of fantasy and Science Fiction,

Asimov Science Fiction, Light Speed magazine, and on tour.com. Her first novel will

be published by Catherine Tegan Books in 2016. She lives in Colorado.

You can find her at K-A-L-L-A-L-A-C-E dot Wordpress.

And if you like what you hear,

you can go back to the April 2013 issue

where she wrote, no portraits on the sky.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I woke in the darkness. My mother was leaning over me.

We have to leave, she said. Her breath was warm on my face.

The scent of dried flowers and wood smoke drifted after her.

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