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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens and welcome to the second story for the month of January, issue

2008.

I hope that the podcast has found you well as always I hope that the new year is also

treating you well and for those of you who feel that January has already become the longest month of the year,

I hope that this story can bring you some solace and some comfort.

I want to thank each and every one of you for your ongoing

support of the magazine, whether it's showing up and listening every time we

release a podcast and thank you for your patience as I got over being really

really ill, or going to Patreon.com forward slash Clark's world and

supporting us that way with a monetary donation each month. Every single bit

helps. Our story is titled Down the Waterfall and is by Cecil Christophare.

Cecil Christophare lives in South France where she teaches English literature and writes stories when her children are sleep

Her fiction has previously appeared in Interzone Daily Science Fiction Reckoning and others

Her debut short story collection Elephantsants in Bloom, was recently published by New Khan Press.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

On nights when the time traveler's body has knitted enough of itself back up,

she remembers what it feels like to sleep like a human.

She abandons herself to a sluggishness.

She knows will come without pain.

Taste the relief of no longer watching out for lethal dangers hidden in every thought. She dreams, and she forgets. If she was not

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