You are listening to a Clarkshold magazine podcast.

I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens.

Welcome to yet another podcast.

The month of December, 2025, issue 231.

I hope that this podcast, like all of our podcast, finds you incredibly well, all things considered.

I want to thank you for taking us along on the ride whether it's out on a commute out going shopping maybe listening on a train maybe just

relaxing you showing up and diving into yet another world and meeting new characters is what we're all

about here and we cannot do this without you.

So thank you if you've gone to patreon.com forward slash Clark's World or checked a few bucks

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You help us bring all of these worlds and words to you each and every month.

Our next story is titled Imperfect Sim, and is by Michelle Z. Jin.

Michelle Z. Jin is a speculative fiction writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She studied engineering and works in the technology sector, but her lifelong love has always

been creating and discovering new stories.

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

The kids like Lejeanchi, because it's a non-perfect strategy game,

a bridge as they make their way onto bigger, more serious things, like chess and go.

It's something that even the most incompetent of them could hope to win.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

Sometimes your opponent's general starts off trapped.

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