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

Welcome to the podcast for the 1st of April, 26, issue 235.

We have been around for 235 issues.

Did you know that?

You know, every time that I announced the issue number, I am amazed by just how many issues

this team has put out each and every month. And you know what? We can't do this without you.

So thank you so much for your ongoing support of the magazine, whether it is a subscription,

whether it is you go to patreon.com, vor slash Clark's World, whether you've checked a few bucks our

way, whether you sent an email, told a friend, voted for us, or a story in any of the awards that are given

out by the genre. You guys are amazing. So thank you. So on this day of April fools,

I've got nothing but good things to say. I can't trick the audience that gives me one of the best jobs I've ever had.

So thank you for always being there.

Our story is titled Macaroni Art in the Age of Filtration and is by Ryan Cole.

Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snuckly Pugchild.

He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop,

and his work has appeared in Clark's World Podcastle, Escape Pod, and Cast of Wonders, among

others. Ryan has a bunch of stories in Clark's World. Some of them are titled A Dream of Twin

Sunsets, which was August 2025, from Enceladus

with Love, which was March 2025, and Waffles are only goodbye for now, which was December

2023. So I implore you after you listen to this to go look up Ryan here at Clarksville

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

and let me tell you a story.

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