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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens to the second story of March 2024, issue 210.

I hope that the month is treating you well.

I hope that the stories that you have listened to,

and I thank you for your ongoing support.

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Our story is titled Ph Phosphorescence, and is by Ben Berman Ghan.

Ben Berman Ghan, he him, is the author of the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits,

Buck Rider Books 2024,

as well as the collection, what we see in the smoke.

Crows Nest Books 2019.

His prose and poetry have previously

been published in Clarksville magazine Strange Horizons, The Blasted Tree, The Thames Review, and others.

He lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, where he is a PhD student in English literature at the University of Calgary.

And if you like what you hear you can go back to the resting place of trees.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax and let me tell you a story. We are contaminated by our encounters. They change who we are as we make way for others.

As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual

worlds, and new directions may emerge. Everyone carries a history of

contamination. Purity is not an option.

Anna Lohanhopped Singh,

the mushroom at the end of the world

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