You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily.

Well, all things considered. I hope you're holding up.

Seems like January and February has been even harder months as this pandemic drags on,

but I want to thank you for stopping by and listening to yet another story.

I also want to thank you for your emails as we go through this unprecedented time.

They have brought comfort, which I hope is in response to the time that you get to escape

by listening to these stars. So thank you for the kind words and for the encouragement

to keep going and I will pass that encouragement back to you to keep going.

Our second to last story for the month of February 2021, issue 173, is we'll always have two

versions of Teros by Dominica Fettploss. Dominica Fettploss writes fiction and poetry. Her work

has appeared in Asimov's analog FNSF light speed, copper nickel, acatone, wig leaf,

the year's best science fiction and fantasy, and best microfiction 2019.

Her honors include a push-cart prize, a Rona Jeff Award, a Barbara Deming Award and

fellowships from the I Park Marble House project and the McDowell Colony. She's a graduate of

UC Berkeley in the Clarion West writer's workshop. You can find Dominica at dominecafettploss.com.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to December 2014 which brought you no Vera there.

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

One, Lily, one. Everything was going great until Barry announced one warning that he was in the

wrong time stream. The wrong what? He seemed sluggish, disoriented and need of coffee. I'm not

supposed to be here. The wedding was in three months. There had been multiple disagreements about

the dessert platters and the dance numbers, small fights, bickering, normal stuff, but there was

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