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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

I hope that as you listen to each of these stories in the month of September, you feel that you aren't alone.

I hope these stories give you a chance to drown out whatever is going on in the world and give

you peace for the time that you listen?

Allow you to escape this incredible reality we're living in.

If you like what you hear,

please visit us on Clark World Citizens.com and see how you can be a part of this magazine each and every month.

Our fifth story for the month of September, issue 168,

is titled Ask the Fireflies and is by RP Sand.

RP Sand is a theoretical physicist turned scientific advisor

for literature and film, science communicator, and writer of speculative fiction.

Cats, coffee, cosplay, and colorful socks are a few of her favorite things.

Please visit r.P.and.com. socks are a few of her favorite things.

Please visit R.P.Sand.com for more information.

So my dear listener, sit back, relax, and let me tell you. Sit back. Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

They say the universe was created

when a giant lit a matchstick that her great sigh fan the flames

that danced and wept into stars and constellations.

They say some seas are blue and slugs are naturally submissive. They also say that I cannot exist. But what do they know? These are truths or untruths,

contorted through generations whispers leaping from ear to ear

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