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Kate Baker. Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you

extraordinarily well. This is our second story for the month of February 20.

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So our second story for the month of February is Eyes of the Crocodile.

And is by Molena Salazar Masia.

And is translated by Toshiya Kameh.

Melena Salazar Masia was born in Havana, Cuba, where she still lives today.

A winner of multiple literary awards, she has authored several books, including Nade, 2016.

Las Peragonaciones, de la Diociosus, in 2018,

an Alliento de Dragon, 2020. English translations of her short stories have appeared in venues such as The Future Fire,

Mythila Review, and Saline Quarterly magazine. In addition, her work has been translated into Croatian, German, and Japanese.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

My return to our ancestral roots began with a crocodile's eye that sprouted on my right breast.

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