You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

We're onto our fourth story for the month of April, and I just wanted to say thank you

once again for your ongoing support of the magazine.

Whether this is your first story, or somewhere around 800, I've lost count.

I probably need to count how many I've done because it's been a lot, and we're coming

up on our 200 issue next month.

So ugh, there's been a lot, and we cannot do it without your support.

If you're considering supporting us, you can go to patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld.

Our fourth story for the month is titled Keeper of the Code, and is by Nick Thomas.

Nick Thomas spends his day building geodums, planks, wash, and drafting legislation for

the Ohio General Assembly.

He aspires to write stories that capture all the wonderful, weird beauty of life.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio, in a ramshackle old house with his spouse, two children, and

one little ghost, all of whom he loves very dearly.

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

The data packets are buried in a subfold or so deep down in the code that it might as

well be the center of the planet.

Super marbles at their existence.

At this depth, they are an impossibility, nothing short of a miracle.

A fish dies in the ocean and a thousand desperate, gaping mouths below our fed.

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