You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

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

This is our sixth story for the month of April 2022. Issue 187.

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Our story is titled An Urge to Create Honey and is by Martin K. Hill.

Martin K. Hill is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in New York City and works as

the marketing and publicity manager for Erwin Books. He is a graduate of the Clarean Science

Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop of 2014 and a member of the New York City based writing group

Altered Floyd. You can find his fiction in Light Speed magazine, Nightmare magazine,

Shimmer magazine, Fireside magazine, Beneath Seaseless Guys, and now Clark's World. His short story

God meet appeared in the best American science fiction and fantasy 2019 anthology

and he was part of the writing team for Realms, Batman, The Blind Cut.

Martin also writes and has written book reviews and essays for tour.com, Book Riot,

Strange Horizons, and The Barnes and Noble Science Fiction Fantasy Blog.

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

You stand in the airlock wondering when they're going to let you come back home.

As you wait the new delicate hairs on your body twitch, thousands of silent

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