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 extraordinarily well.

This is our second story for the month of August 2019, issue 155. For those of you who have come to the podcast for the first time

thank you so much for visiting I hope you stay a while. For those of you who have

been longtime listeners, subscribers, even going as far as supporting

us through Patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld or over at Clarksworld citizens.com.

Thank you so much for your support. I wouldn't be here

without you guys. So our second story is titled Onyx Woods and the

grains of deception and is by D. A. Shaolin Spires.

Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as Hawaii, New York, various parts of

Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached.

Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as Clark's World, Analog, Nature,

and a whole host of other venues.

Along with anthologies of the strange and beautiful,

ride the star wind, sharp and sugar tooth, future visions, Deep Signal, battling in all her finery and broad knowledge.

She can be found on Twitter at Spires Writer.

And also at her website D-A-X-I-O-L-I-N-S-S-T-S-W-N-S-T-W-T-P-T-P-T-W-G-T-G-T-W-G-T-T-T-T-T-S-W-T-T-T-T-S-T-W-T-T-S-WI-W So my dear listener, I do hope you can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

The king certainly likes fire, said Cole. We could see the smoke rise from beyond, from another forest.

I pulled off my gloves and rubbed my back. Once we relaxed like this I could feel all my

muscles ache. Cole took a bit of the lump in his hand and spit it out.

What is this anyway?

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