You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast. I'm your host and your narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very, very well. I am ecstatic. I have managed to get all of the podcast back up to date.

And that's to your generous support and your patience.

Thank you for all of the messages, all of the tweets, all of the emails, encouraging me to keep going.

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to see how you can help support this magazine, because I'm Patreon. So, our fifth story for the month of July, 2020, issue 166 is titled Strange Comfort and is by Tegan

More. Tegan More is a writer living more.

Tegan More is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest who enjoys eating noodles, hiking in the rain and reading scary stories.

She has published short fiction and magazines including beneath

ceaseless skies, Asimov's and Tour dot com and runs the Clarion West one day workshops.

You can read more of her work at alarm hat.com and follow her

obscenely charismatic dogs at temerity.d So my dear listeners I hope you can sit back relax. I hope you

doing well by the way and let me tell you a story.

Before Mug Ruiz Vent Station,

Gens had never had much of an imagination.

For example, and just for starters, he never would have imagined he'd end to imagine, that a contractual sub-clause would send him to Europa, orbiting

Jupiter, 10 freezing miles beneath the surface of an alien ocean.

How bored he'd get of working on music when he had almost unlimited time to spend on it.

How living in two rooms with another human for six months would overlap the two of them,

blur their boundaries, and that he might like it.

How obsessed he'd become with the portholes.

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