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 well. This is our last

story for the month of February 2022. Issue 185. I hope that you've enjoyed this journey with us

this month, because we're going to go on another one, starting tomorrow. This being a short month,

we left you with the longest story, which makes the most sense.

I want to thank you for your ongoing support. Thank you for going to patreon.com,

forward slash Clark's World and Clark's World Citizens. We're just a dollar a month or more

can help us bring you all of these kinds of things. Our art, our podcast, our stories, our non-fiction,

and all the work that goes on behind the scenes. You are responsible for making this happen.

So thank you. Our story is titled Babarusa and is by Arula Ratnakar. Arula Ratnakar can be

found at Arula.portfolialounge.com. Is a scientist, artist, science fiction writer and

aspiring astronaut? She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2021, where she studied

biology, neuroscience and architecture. She now works in a neuroscience lab where she is interested

in studying neurophotonics, the intersection of declarative and procedural memory,

and brain simulation science. All four of her published stories can be found in Clark's World

magazine, and her artwork can be found in the first issue of Dark Matter magazine. She is autistic

and bisexual. Themes of identity and reality have always interested Arula, particularly as someone

who is the daughter of two immigrants from India and has grown up in the US with many different

cultural influences. Arula plans to continue writing science fiction stories and hopes to work

on science fiction movies someday. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to the three stories,

submergence, lone puppeteer of a sleeping city, and in sun, hang, Farishtay Nahim.

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

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