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

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our long story for the month of April 2021, issue 175.

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Our story is titled Border Borus and is by Dean Paul Stevens. Dean Paul Stevens is a Jamaican

born writer living in North Carolina. He splits his time working as a regional watchdog reporter

when he isn't moonlighting for his website World Beat. His fiction has appeared in FIA,

Lit Magazine, and the sadly defunct, Azure Lit Magazine. Although he is currently plucking

away at his first novel, you can find him slacking off on Twitter at Dean P.E. Stevens.

Also at the website World Beat, and that's beat with two E's, that's substack.com.

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

I know only an irrational panic. I try to collect myself only to find my faculties or not my own,

but that of an internal imperative guiding my quite incomprehensible actions. Run a parallel

diagnostic, recalibrate magnetic relay before, load the ballistic rod. I don't understand,

but feel compelled to act. In equation, the first of several leaps from my mind's deepest recesses.

Somehow I know what they represent, recognize the litany of disciplines, each one draws from

and find comfort in their familiarity. The troubled waters of my confusion ebbs in the

placid understanding. Deep space slumetry has identified an asteroid on an apparent collision course.

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