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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I know I just talked to yesterday and I gave you a very long introduction so I'm not going to waste time I'm going to get right into the second story out of six that we're offering you in April

Again, we hope to offer you six on a continuous basis,

but that's only if we meet our subscriber numbers.

So again, if you can spread the word any way you can,

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and I thank you in advance.

So our second story for the month of April 2013 is titled Anex by Benjinnen Sri

Dwenka or as she told me an email just Benjamin S I figured I try to pronounce it hopefully

I didn't murder that too much.

Benjamin spends her free time on words amateur amateur photography, and the pursuit of colorful, unusual makeup.

She has a love for cities, airports, and bees. Her fiction can be found in Gigonotosaurus,

beneath the ceaseless skies and Clockwork Phoenix 4.

So, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

On the eve of Samotiwi's entry into the Kostea hegemony, Isethu was sloughing off the shell of their birth body.

There would be speculation afterward what Isethu was born as, someone's son,

someone's daughter. To that, Isethu would always say, I was born as I am now, which became a stretch after Iseth they obtained a second,

then a third body, a hardware upgrade they liked to say,

you can never have too many.

That was much later.

Isethu was a creature of solitude, but afflicted with being so new in a world so old they found

themselves craving company. This close to the heels of conquest

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