You are listening to a Clarkshold magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarkshold citizens, welcome to the second story of March 2023 issue 198.

I hope you've enjoyed our first story for the month.

And if you're a listener who has been here a few times, I hope you've enjoyed the stories

preceding that.

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So our second story for the month is titled Pinocchio Photography and is by Angela Liu.

Angela Liu is a Chinese American writer from New York City.

She researched mixed reality at KO University's Graduate School of Media Design in Japan with

a focus on new narrative platforms and tangible interfaces for remote communication.

Gina works in IT consulting and raising a Kaiju loving toddler.

Her stories and poetry are published forthcoming and strange horizons, the dark nightmare magazine

fusion fragment cast of wonders among others.

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

The cadaver drone makes an incision along the inside of each finger.

My stomach curls, waiting for the blood, but of course there's none left.

The body has been dead for days, all the blood drained and replaced with a sweet smelling

of formaldehyde formula.

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