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 second story for the month of April 2019, issue 151.

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Our second story is called ripen and is by

Yuki Ogawa. Yukiokawa.

Yuki Ogawa lives in a small town in Tokyo

where she writes in English but never speaks the language.

She so wonders why it works that way.

Her stories can be found in such places as fantasy and science fiction,

strange horizons, and the outcast hours.

And if you like what you hear,

go back to December 2016, you'll find Blue-gray

blue.

So my dear listeners, I do hope you can sit back, Relax and let me tell you a story.

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