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

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Guess what? By the time that you get this, we're going to be back on track with all of the podcasts.

It has taken me months, nay, years. To get to this point, I hope you enjoy them in a more structured

release than we've done in the past. I want to thank you for your patience, your support.

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We can't do it without you. So thank you. So our second story for the month of July 2021,

issue 178 is called. He leaps for the stars. He leaps for the stars. It's by Grace Chan.

Grace Chan is an Aurelius and Norma K. Heming, a ward nominated writer and doctor. She was born in

Malaysia and lives in Australia. Her writing explores brains, minds, space, technology, and narrative

identity. Her short fiction can be found in Clark's World, Light Speed, Space and Time magazine,

Aurelius and Drama to Spaceways and other places. Her debut novel, Every Version of You,

will be published by a firm press in 2022. You can find her on Twitter as Grace Chan writes.

Also at the website, gracechanwrites.com. And if you like what you hear, February 2020 brought you

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

Yenny's new therapist started by checking his bio-rhythm recordings,

sleep patterns, heart rate, blood pressure. Then the therapist Soma projection leaned into the space

between them and asked what Yenny would like to talk about. And he glanced out the window.

An ice storm, a froth of glassy dust, was blowing in over the bone-colored hills.

He was on Enceladus. His therapist was on Mars. He wanted to describe how sometimes his body

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