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 fourth story for the month of September 2017, issue 132.

The piece is titled,-Humanism, Hope and Pragmatics, and is by Just Barber and

Sarah Sobbe.

Just Barbara lives in Cambridge, where she spends her days, and sometimes nights,

building open source electronics.

She is a graduate of the 2015 Clarion Writing Workshop, and her work has recently appeared in Strange Horizons, Light Speed, and the Year's Best Science Fiction.

You can find Jess at her website, Jess-Barber.com.

Sarah Saab was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She now lives in North London,

where she has perfected her resting London face.

Her current interests are croissants and emojies thereof,

amassing poetry collections, and coming up with a plausible reason to live on a sleeper train.

Sarah's a 2015 graduate of the Clarion and Whiters Workshop. You can find Sarah at her website, Fort Knightley, Sarah.com.

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So my dear listeners, I want you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Amir Tarabi is scrubbing himself down in the misting rooms the first time he meets

Mani risk.

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