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

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

This is our second story for the month of November.

Issue 158. For those of you who are supporting this magazine, thank you so much for

coming to spend the time with me.

We wouldn't be here without your generous support, so please visit Clark's World Citizens

dot com to see how you can be a part of this magazine each and every month. Our second story is titled Antarctica and is by

D. A. Jowlin Spires. D. A. Jowlin Sp, steps into portals, and reappears in sites such as Hawaii, New York, various

parts of Asia, and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears

or is forthcoming in publications such as Clark's World, Analog, Nature, Terraform, Grievous Angel, Fireside, Galaxy's Edge, Starship Sfa, and much, much more.

She can be found on Twitter at Spires Writer

and at her website, D.A. Jowlin-Spires. D.A. Jowlin Spires.

WordPress.com.

She's no stranger to Clark's world either,

starting all the way back August 2017 with Twisted Knotts,

and six other stories, as recent as August 2019,

with Onyx Woods and the grains of deception.

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

I set my laser to a thinner edge as I cleared the excess around the general

parallelogram shape of the form before me, a structure filled with tiny nodes.

White shards flew around me, hitting my face and sticking to my skin, as my

laser danced across the piece. I wiped the shards off with a towel before they could melt, already feeling the chill. the opened with a sucking shooop before closing again the room still in cold stasis.

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