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Greetings Clark's World Citizens. it is February 1st, 2019. Welcome to a whole new month of stories.

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Our first story for the month is titled East of the Sun,

West of the Stars.

And is by Britte E. Britte E. Vita is a writer and editor. She studied creative

writing and physics at Northwestern University.

Originally from Singapore, she now lives in Brooklyn

with her husband and their dog.

You can follow her on Twitter at B.H.

V I D. E. So my dear listener I do hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

We named our ship The Bear.

It was from a fairy tale, the one about the woman who traveled impossible distances to find her prince, but it was also a promise, warm and powerful, distinctly animal against the ship's chrome and emptiness.

It inspired hope, it promised we too would travel impossible distances.

We brought along everything we had,

bundles of warm clothing, family heirlooms, wooden clocks our grandfathers had whittled,

seed from the final harvest, jars filled with preserved jams and pickles and starter yeast that had been in the family for

a hundred years and would be in the family a hundred more.

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