You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our third story for the month of April 2020, issue 163.

Again, I want to thank you for your patience as we roll out these podcasts and rapid fire.

My laptop died. I had to get a new laptop. Out of my equipment worked.

I had to learn Adobe Audition.

I actually like the way that it's been sounding.

I'd love your feedback.

As always, I hope you're doing well.

All things considered, I hope you can forget for a little while, at least,

while I read you a story.

And our story this time is titled A System for Investigating

Recapitulation and Evolutionary Novelty, and is by Kyle E. Miller.

Kyle currently lives in, writes about, and wanders across Michigan's bountiful lakes and

forests. His fiction has previously appeared in Three Loped Burning Eye, See the Elephant, and Thoreau on Mackinac.

He currently works as a stablehand for a small barn in Ann Arbor, where he tries to speak with horses. You can find Kyle at the website

Fish is Leaping geese flying that WordPress.com.

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

When L awakened on her leaf, the photo cell beside her head was incandescent with a captured message.

The cell held the light that held the meaning.

She placed two fingers flat on the golden cell. The cell held the light that held the meaning.

She placed two fingers flat on the golden cell, drew two small circles, and the message opened.

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