You are listening to a Clarkshould magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarkshould Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. All things considered,

I want to give my sincerest thanks for spending the time here at Clarkshould Magazine. Whether you're

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you are reading a story, you're telling a friend about something you liked, you've listened to a

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And you allow me to do what I love to do best and tell you a story.

And speaking of those stories, our second story for the month of November 2025, issue 230,

is titled Jade Fighter. It is by D.A. Jauline Spires.

D.A. Jauline Spires steps into portals and reappears such as New York, Hawaii, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage

attached. Her work appears in publications such as Clark's World, Analog, Strange Horizons,

and Anthologies of the Strange and Beautiful,

makeshift, deep signal, and sharp and sugar tooth. Their stories have been selected for the

year's top robot and AI stories, the year's top hard science fiction stories, and the

year's top tales of space and time stories, with poetry nominated for the Reasling Best of the Net and Pushcart Awards.

Their sci-fi novella, Ellipses, is forthcoming from Infinovox.

She has a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology and has conducted National Science Foundation-funded research.

Her multifaceted writing reflects her interest in food systems,

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