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

Greetings, Clarkshold citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

It's our last story from March.

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Our story is titled Love is a Process of Unbecoming and is by Jonathan Kincaid.

Jonathan Kincaid is a scholar, teacher, and storytelling nerd.

His previous work appears or is forthcoming in anathema, spec from the margins, fire,

magazine of black speculative fiction, and uncharted magazine.

He holds a PhD in English from UCLA with a focus on narrative theory and is a graduate

of Clearing West 2022.

You can also find him at his website, jcancade.com.

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

Let me tell you a story.

One, ingestion, unknown sensations trigger unknown reactions leading to instinctive states.

They have names, hunger, sadness, fear, others lurk beneath cognitive liniments, but none

drive like the hunger reignited by its ingestion of this organism.

The host knows me as Negleria Fallerri, but this organism, not yet an eye, does not even

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