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 well. I didn't think in a million years that we would

find ourselves in the situation we are in. Just know that you are not alone and it is okay to feel what you are feeling about

this situation. Our second story for the month of March 2020, issue 162, is titled Coffee Boom, Decoctions, Micronized.

The story is by D. A. Jau-Lin Spires. D.A. Jauline Spires.

D.A. Jauline Spires 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, and, and many, many, many more.

Please check out her anthologies of the strange and beautiful,

Ride the Star Wind, Sharp and Sugar Tooth, future visions, deep signal, battling in all her finery and broad

knowledge. She can be found on Twitter at Spires Writer.

And also a website,

D-A-X-I-O-L-I-N

Spires.

Spires. That WordPress. L-I-N-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-T-W dot com.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. It's just a small bean, really. Just a tiny pinky nail-sized small bit of organic matter,

roasted, then crushed, soaked, and drained. Don't throw away the baby with the bath water, but in this case,

really do. Check it out, totally discard the baby, but keep the bath water and drink it all up.

Pour it into your mug watch the steam rise up and sip.

It shouldn't be a big deal.

People like to think they're in control of their lives, but deprive them of a bit of this bean soup, and they're useless.

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