You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and

narrator Kate Baker. Greetings Clarks World Citizens and happy new year. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well and I

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Our first story for the year is Eater of Worlds by Jamie Walls.

Jamie Walls is a writer, programmer, pianist, suicide counselor, voice actor, massage therapist, my model

ex-millionaire, Krav Magi.

Scuba Diver, game developer, neuroscience,

enthusiast, dance instructor, vegetarian, and very cautious driver.

Published stories include Maestro for the children and the button. You can

find more of Jamie at the website Jamie Walls.com. So my dear listeners I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you the first story of 2019.

One, black and vast and very cold

and then blazing past something not quite as fast as light.

The tiny missile is as long as a rose's thorn and orders of magnitude more durable.

It streaks through the blackness and its current journey has been long enough, from an external frame for a particularly self-destructive species to rise out of their

primordial slime, invent atomic weapons, and start the whole damn thing anew.

No, it wasn't humanity.

The missile or maybe ship shoots towards a placidly drifting moon that luckily is

exactly where it was projected to be this instant of this millennium.

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