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Greetings Clarks World Citizens, and welcome to the fourth story for the month of September

of 2023 issue 204.

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So our story is titled Axiom of Dreams and is by Arula Ratnakar.

This is a long one, so I hope that you can settle in.

Arula Ratnakar is a neuroscientist and hard science fiction author, her short science

fiction can be found in Clarks World magazine, and the life beyond a anthology.

She works in a lab where she researches the neural mechanisms of psychedelics and dissociative

agents.

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

Truth lives at the top of this mountain, our floating fractal god housed in a temple

within the clouds.

Sometimes wonder does it feel trapped up there, locked into serving our needs, calculating

the goal space of our society, choosing the next citizen to unveil?

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