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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of March, issue 222.

This story is titled Mind Trips and is by Total to Marse.

The story like all of our stories are brought to you by you and your support of Clarkshould

magazine.

So thank you if you are an ongoing subscriber, Patreon supporter, or I've gone to Clarkshouldcitizens.com.

And if you haven't yet, please consider doing so, because we can't do this without you.

Your contribution each and every month helps us to pay the writers, the nonfiction participants,

the artists, and the people putting this all together, which includes myself.

Now our author, Bautol Tamase, is a Motswana author, and her short fiction has appeared

in Africa Arisen, The Best of World SF Volume 1, Clark's World, Terraform, African Futurism

Anthology, and other publications.

Wom City is her debut adult novel.

She is a Kane Prize finalist and has received support from the Rolex mentor and

protege arts initiative.

She has an MFA and creative writing from Chapman University.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to the thought box and eclipse our sins.

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

At 226 a.m., police were radioed into a casualty at a residence and redacted, according to witness accounts and the child present at the home. A woman was found deceased at the bottom of the stairs. There were no signs of history of domestic violence.

Autopsy was ambiguous.

Further investigation is advised.

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