And welcome to the fourth story for Clarksville magazine for issue 21 February 2025.

The piece is titled A Planet Full of Sorrows and is by M.L. Clark and I am your host and

narrator, Kate Baker. Welcome. Dear listeners, dear citizens of Clark's World, their subscribers, and supporters.

You make these stories happen every single month and without your support, we just simply

can't do it.

So my sincerest thanks, if you've bought a subscription, if you've gone to patreon.com, or you've

gone to Clarksworld Citizens.com. Now our author, ML Clark, is a writer,

editor, and translator, originally from Canada, now based in Medellin, Colombia. Clark's science

fiction appears in a range of venues including analog, Clark's World, FNSF, and Lightspeed. Book

and other media reviews appear in strange horizons, while genre advocacy

through SIFWA's pubs crew occupies a big role in a life otherwise spent where the wild things are.

And not to mention just a podcast editor's point, M.L. Clark is one of the most loveliest people.

So, if you like what you hear, I would strongly suggest you go back to Losson Found,

Love Unflinching at Low to Zero G, Mercy and the Mollusk,

nine words for loneliness in the language of the Umau, and Leave Taking.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Everyone on the Ember dreams of Emmanuel.

Case says he's always lippy with her in dreams,

and that she's had it up to here with his post-mortem attitude, but none of us is buying the complaint.

Emmanuel and Case always had the flirty rapport of a young man who prefers men and an older woman who prefers women.

And after eight souls together under contract, Emmanuel's sass and Case cases sass back, or as close as any of us

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