You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker. Welcome to the last story for the month of April, 26, issue 235. I want to thank you again for supporting this magazine. I know times are really tough. I know the cost of living has skyrocketed. And I cannot thank you enough for

chucking those few precious bucks our way each and every month to keep this thing going.

Whether you're a subscriber, whether you've gone to patreon.com 4 slash Clark's World, or whether you've

checked a few bucks or way through a donation, I cannot thank you enough. I hope that we provide

a much neededneeded escape.

Our last story is titled Human Studies, 401. It is by Abby Nicole Yee.

Abby Nicole Yee is a Filipino neurodivergent writer, born and based in Kayoyan de Oro.

Her work appears or is forthcoming in Clarks World, Strange Horizons, Penumbric, and elsewhere.

A former award-winning pianist, she is currently studying creative writing at the University of the Philippines,

Deleman, and when not writing your problematic phase, she is eating a worrying amount of cheesy pasta,

being terminally online and squinting at the world at large, along with the rest of us.

And if you like what you hear, please go back to a space opera.

So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back. Relax.

Let me tell you a story.

Notes on specimen, Ephrin Vargas.22-4-204.27.3.

Supposed to be married to Joan Dimagipa, his fiancé.

Was in bed with some other woman, asterix, a week in human time before his wedding.

Asterix?

Eva, a female artificial, humanoid.

Warning, I suppose this contradiction is human-specific, no?

I engineered Eva myself

went through all that trouble crowdsourcing organic

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