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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you wonderfully well.

It is April 1st, April Fools, yet I have no jokes to play. You have nothing to worry about my dear listeners. There are no jokes in this podcast. I'm going to give you

a year off. But now as I think about it you're probably going to sit there and stew a little

bit aren't you trying to figure out what I've done to this

podcast? But I'm telling you, it's nothing. It's absolutely nothing. I will tell you that we are so close to meeting our next goal on Patreon.

It's 98 percent. Can you please please please if you are not already supporter?

Go to Patreon.com forward slash Clark's World and

bump us over that line so that we can start looking forward to another goal.

It is with your continued support that this magazine grows and becomes better.

So if you can, spare a dollar or more.

And again, that's Patreon.com slash Clark's World.

Our first story of the month is titled Conglomerate and is by Robert Bryce.

Robert Bryce lives in Plymouth, UK,

and is studying for an MA in creative writing.

Conglomerate is his first published work.

So with that, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

One eye looks out, while the other looks in.

The outer eye red-lens, and inorganic gazes unblinkingly upon the immensity of the Cosmos, studying the poetry

of the firmament, and distilling it within its vast auxiliary intelligence and to pure mathematics.

Distant, stromatic washes of nebulae,

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