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

Greetings Clarkville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our long story for the month of June 2020, issue 165. I want to thank you for your ongoing support of the magazine.

If you'd like to throw your support our way, please consider going to Patreon.com forward

slash Clarkswell.

Our story is titled Nine Words for Loneliness

In the Language of the Umau

and is by M. L. Clark.

Canadian by birth, M. L. Clark now calls Columbia Home.

Clark is the published author of science and speculative fiction stories in

Analog, Clark's World, and Lightspeed, as well as three years best anthologies, among other publications.

Other writing projects include poetry, reviews, essays,

especially for a secular humanist column at pathios.com, another white atheist in Colombia, and a novel

in the universe of To Catch All Sorts of Flying Things and Leave Taking.

You can find

M.L. at their website, Maggie Clark.org.

And M.L. Clark is not a stranger here at Clark's World either.

With seven stories dating back to November 2012, we heard

Aquatica. Most recent stories include December 2016, a tower for the coming

world, September 2019 to catch all sorts of flying things, and

March 2020 with leave taking.

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

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