Welcome to the second story for the month of February, 26, issue 233.

I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

I hope that you're doing well all things considered.

I want to thank you for spending this time with us, for supporting the magazine, by going to

patreon.com for us-clark's world, or checking a few bucks are way via donation, buying a subscription,

telling a friend about a story that you love. You help us bring you these issues each and every month,

and you keep me doing something I absolutely love. So thank you. Our second story for the month

is titled Chip and is by D.A. Jaolin Spires. Spire steps into portals and reappears in sites such as New York,

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

appears in publications such as Clark's World, Analog, Strange Horizons, and Anthologies of the Strange

and Beautiful, makeshift, deep signal, and sharp and sugar tooth.

Her stories have been selected for the years, top robot and AI stories, the year's top

hard science fiction stories, and the year's top tales of space and time stories, with

poetry nominated for the Reesling, Best of the Net, and Pushcart Awards.

Her sci-fi novel, Elypses, is forthcoming from Infinovox. Aspires has

a mix of stories and non-fiction. Titles with Clark's role, some of them are Jade Fighter,

luminous glass, vibrant seeds, and a series on martial arts and fight scenes in Zero G,

along with one on hive minds and drones,

B's Earthside and futuristic tech and science fiction. So again, go back and read those, listen

along if you like, and in the meantime, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you

a story.

I didn't have that cliched cloth bundle tied to a stick that peregronators carry,

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