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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well as always.

Again, not much news to report, so we're going to jump into the third story for the month of May.

The piece is titled,

Quantity R plus D divided by I equals M.

The author of this piece is a Clark's World Familiar, by the name of E. Catherine Tobler lives

and writes in Colorado. Among others, her fiction has appeared in sigh fiction.

Fantasy magazine, realms of fantasy, Tailbones, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud

wrist lift.

She's an active member of Sifwa and Senior Editor at Shimmer magazine. You can find her website at e-C-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. And if you like what you hear, you can find her other stories to see the other whole

against the sky, November 2012 issue, and you or she who abode in the June 2012 issue. And that right there is why it's helpful to have a

subscription to Clark's World because you know that the authors would we feature

here have back issues as well. So without further ado let me tell you a story. Grapes grew differently on Mars and no one minded. This trespass was for science.

Ask anyone. Perhaps they shouldn't have grown at all, but they did

into oblong coils that turned the color of copper under the days of long, if distant sunshine.

We found they were best at night when they froze into slush.

We would sneak into the vineyard just the two of us, silent as we always had been.

We heard the humans wish for this ability to be naked under the Martian sky, stretching in

our low gravity, bodies coiling however they might.

They pictured Martians like grapes, though never noticed any of us in those early days.

They didn't then know how close they were to the truth. Our bodies grew as slender as the grapes did,

tethered to the ground by delicate webbed feet the way the grapes held to their vines,

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