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.

Congratulations.

You've made it yet another month.

Welcome to September 1st, 2021.

Issue 180.

Now I know this has been an extraordinarily tough couple of years.

You know, just when we think that things are going to get a little bit better, they slide

a little bit back, but I'm glad that you're here taking time to listen.

Sort of forgetting about the world for a little bit, immersing yourself in a story.

And thank you for giving me the privilege of narrating it to you.

Thank you for your support.

Our first story for the month of September is yesterday's wolf, and is by Ray Naylor.

Ray Naylor has lived and worked in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans

for nearly two decades.

He is a foreign service officer and previously worked in international education development,

as well as serving in the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan.

Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijanian, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Experience short story writer, poet, and author of travel logs.

Ray began publishing speculative fiction in 2015 in the pages of Asimovs.

Since then, his critically acclaimed stories have seen print in Clark's world in a log

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