The State Board, episode 663. Some remarks on the reproductive strategy of the common octopus.

By Gobi Tackett. I'm going to Hello and welcome to a skate pod. I'm a standing host for the week, Alistair, and this week's story comes to us from Bogie to catch.

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He writes, edits and reviews speculative fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

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Your narrator this week is Amy Sturgis.

Dr Amy H Sturgis holds a PhD in intellectual history from Vanderbilt University and specializes

in both science fiction and indigenous American studies.

She is regular starved with the Starship Sofa Podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Hocus Pocus Comics and Faculty at

Lenoir Ryan University. She lives with her husband in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains

in North Carolina. This week's story first appeared in North Carolina.

This week's story first appeared in the April 2017 issue of Clark's World.

So, without further ado, it's story time.

Some remarks on the reproductive strategy of the common octopus.

So, let's do it this way. I'll show you whatever I want and you'll believe me because I'm an

octopus. I might as well get some benefit out of it, not that we ever had much, especially not since you left.

Humans, huh?

Humans.

I slide over the eerily warm surface, watch the tiny but constant stream of bubbles, run tentacles gently over the, pry.

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