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

Greetings with Clarksville citizens and welcome to the second story for the month of April

2024, issue 211. I hope the story's

the stories have been thus far treating you very well.

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So our story is titled an Intergalactic Smugglers guide to Homecoming and is by Tia Tashiro.

Tia Tashiro is a multiracial speculative fiction writer hailing from the Pacific

northwest. By day she works in a neurobiology lab. By night she writes and in between she

dabbles in stained glass and juggling, though never at the same time.

Her short fiction is published in Clark's World and forthcoming in Apex and Uncanny.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to you to carry you inside you.

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

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