You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarkual Citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of September 2020, issue 168.

Thank you so much for your continuous support of this magazine, whether it is you coming back each and every month to listen

to every story, you send us a couple bucks via Patreon.com forward slash

Clarksworld or Clarksworld citizens.com or even telling a friend

about a story that you particularly liked. Thank you so much for making this

your home. It is truly a privilege to be able to read these stories to you.

Our third story is titled The Lone Puppeteer of a sleeping city,

and is by Arula Ratnakar.

Arula Ratnakar is a 21-year-old scientist, artist, and science fiction writer, who is currently studying biology,

concentration in neuroscience, minor in architecture, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her writing can be found in Clark's World magazine and her artwork can be found in the first issue of Dark Matter

magazine. She is autistic and bisexual.

Themes of identity and reality have always interested,

Arula, particularly as someone who is the daughter of two immigrants from India,

and has grown up in the US with many different cultural influences.

Arula is interested in studying brain simulation science in the future, plans to continue writing science fiction stories, and hopes to work on science fiction movies someday.

Her Twitter handle is at Arula-Raznakar.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story. I remember being born.

I remember the sensory overload of light and sound and scent,

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