You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast and I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for September 2023 issue 204. And again, whether this is the first

story that you're listening to or somewhere near 850, just under a thousand, we cannot

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So our story is titled a guide and matchmaking on station 9 is by Nika Murphy.

Nika Murphy is a Ukrainian born writer of speculative fiction. At seven years old,

Nika came to the United States as a Jewish refugee. She now resides with her family in Duval

County, Florida. She holds an MFA from Arcadia University and subsidizes her typewriter collection

with a day job in the pharmaceutical industry. Her stories appear or are forthcoming in Clarks World,

apex and lunatic station quarterly and have been featured in tour.com's monthly short fiction spotlight.

You can find her online at nika Murphy.com. And if you like what you hear, you can always go back

to the art of navigating and affair in a time raft. So my dear listeners, sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

The number one thing to remember about matchmaking on station 9 is to keep your hyper-synesthesia

under control. When the client sitting across from you huffs and purses or lips and trails of

gray and beige puffs follow her every move. Under no circumstances, so do you tell her she will

never find a basher with that kind of aura. Is this it? Naomi says, swiping to the last page of

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