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 well. This is our last story

for the month of January 2023, issue 196. How have you enjoyed the stories thus far? Let us know.

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for slash Clark's World. So our last story is titled Pearl and is by Felix Rose Kowitzki.

Felix Rose Kowitzki, who can be found at the website, FelixKowitzki.net, is an illustrator,

researcher, and game designer. They are a PhD candidate at the University of York in the School

of Arts and Creative Technologies, exploring links between queer speculative fiction,

collective storytelling, and tabletop role-playing games. They have an undergraduate degree in

fine art, and a master's in theater making, from the University of Cape Town. They have facilitated

world-building and character creation workshops, IMT galleries, I am a not me, 2020 Baltic Center

for Contemporary Art 2021, and presented papers at conferences such as Trans Studies, Trans Lives,

UCL 2019, Productive Futures, the Political Economy of Science Fiction,

Birkback 2019, and Current Research and Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool 2018.

Their essay Magic Circles, tabletop role-playing games, as queer Utopian method, was published in

Performance Research, training Utopias in 2021. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

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