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

Greetings, Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you as well as can be. I want to thank you again for taking the time out of your busy schedule to listen to yet another story.

And you know how you get to do that? It's with support from listeners like you. So thank you if you've gone to patreon.com for slash Clarksworld,

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We simply cannot do this without you.

I hope that all these stories that we bring you each and every month,

bring you escape,

or let you imagine often to new and exciting new worlds bringing you new characters

again thanks to you our fifth story for issue 227 is titled see a fertility and is by bella han

now bella han's works have appeared in cl's World, Science Fiction World, the annual Best Chinese Science Fiction and More.

She was the winner of the China Galaxy Award and the Stellar Award based in Hongshul, China.

She is passionate about all forms of art.

And if you like what you hear, you can go to Di Profondus, a space love letter,

to Helen, and Ammerville. So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell

you a story. My big brother vanished in the virtual city of La Puta, leaving no trace behind.

I set up sweating for a moment convinced I'm still dreaming.

Feed globes drift in, flooding my vision with news.

The man beside me opens his eyes about to speak but teleports away at my gloomy expression.

I've forgotten his username.

I wave off the auto-generated music and get out of bed, stepping onto a mess of candy wrappers. The only thing I remember from last

night is the Sensor candies, the latest masterwork I created in the lab, featuring an exceptional

sensation of pain. But they're still missing something. I know that. I always know

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