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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope you are doing wonderfully well.

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So our fifth story is titled Social Darwinism, and is by Priya Shand.

Priya is a California transplant living in the Midwest.

Her work is inspired by a background in biology and has previously

appeared in magazines including Analog, SF, and Nature Futures. You can find

Priya at her website write lies dot wordpress.com.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story. I slide the phone up my legs, flat between my thighs

for the money shot. The Johns got a kink so I kink up.

Pop two neon pills fresh off my printer, Class D molecules, his schematics.

They don't sell this in the stores.

The capsule dissolves its virus reprograms

the synth code padding my DNA.

I try not to squirm as my hair turns into tentacles.

Yeah, the John says, he draws it out like he's in pain and wait for it, starts panting a second later. You're so filthy invade my planet.

All we've got is amino acids on Enceladus. I wonder what movies he's been watching.

The pill is giving me a stomach ache, so I roll my eyes and wink at my reflection.

Two hundred and fifty-six base pairs on chromosome ten. at my mother

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