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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. First things first, I want to thank

both Neil Clark and Kat Rambo for taking over the duties as host and narrator for the last podcast.

As Neil mentioned, I am recovering from some pretty major surgery.

But I'm also very stubborn and I wanted to get back at the helm as quickly as I possibly could.

I also want to thank each of you who wrote, who twittered, who Facebooked, who gave me well wishes and thoughts of recovery and even prayers.

So thank you to all of you.

Our third story for the month of September 2012 is entitled Mukas Child.

Injur Pramid Das is a writer and artist from Kolkata India.

His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Apex magazine, Redstone Science Fiction, The World SF blog,

and is forthcoming in the anthology Breaking the Bow.

Specklet of fiction inspired by the Ramayana by Zuban books.

He is a grateful graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop.

He completed his MFA at the University of British Columbia and is currently in Vancouver

working as a freelance writer, artist, editor, game tester, tutor, would-be novelist, and aspirant to

adulthood.

Follow him on Twitter.

At I N D R A P R A M I T D A S. He can also be found at his website, Flavors. Me, forward slash Indra, underscore doss.

So without further ado, let me tell you a story.

Sierra watched her parent.

Mooka curl up and die like an insect might on earth.

Mooka was a giant of a thing, no insect.

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