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Greetings Clark World Citizens and welcome to the third to the last story for the month of March 2024 issue of 210. How have these stories been treating you?

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with an knee and I love hearing from you guys. You help us sometimes remind us

why we're doing this and we cannot do this without you so thank you. Our story is titled Her Body of the Ship and is by ZK Abraham.

Z.K Abraham, she, her, is a writer and psychiatrist.

She has been published in Fantasy magazine, Necessary Fiction, The Chestnut Review, Podcast, and Moore.

She will be completing the Tin House Online Winter Workshop in Winter

2024.

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

A woman with terracotta skin and a multi-colored shift over her black nanosuit eyed me from across the aisle of the shuttle.

I'd left my Natella, my tribe's white shawl with edges of delicate green embroidery at home. She looked at me with that terrible

mix of judgment and pity and sorrow I'd become accustomed to over the last ten years. My neck

prickled as I stared back at her, determined not to look away until she did.

Pulling my braids into a ponytail, I cracked my neck. My head pulsed from a hangover,

gifted by late night party in one of the defunct loading bays. The shuttle across

the Zanzib seemed to move at half speed despite the flash of silver tunnels

flickering past the windows.

As I disembarked and rushed down the bright hall, polymerized flooring dampened the

sound of my feet, dodging the looks of others as I ran, how ungraceful I was, my mother had always joked.

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