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. Welcome to our second

of the month of May, 2022. Issue 188. I hope you're well, and I want to thank you for listening

to this podcast, whether this is your first or over 700th or somewhere in the middle.

Thank you for your ongoing support of this magazine. Thank you for following us on Twitter.

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allows us to continue doing what we so love. So our story is titled Tea Parties Around

Nebula 55 is by Adriana C. Gregor. Adriana can be found at the website Adriana C. Gregor.com

and is a writer from the Windswept Plains of Romania. They have a degree in literature and linguistics,

a palm shalt for folklore, and a tendency to overwater houseplants. You can find their fiction

in beneath ceaseless skies, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, and others.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Eva made mud pie. Yes, you did. Careful, don't spill it. People would never have guessed what a

feat of engineering making mud on a spaceship was filter the air, make the water, grind dirt,

add silt, scatter sand, and not the kind with glass in it. Make sure to divide it all up again once

the mud has served its purpose. Once a commodity now a scientific compromise amid dwindling resources.

Well, as they said, another man's treasure? Besides, today's picnic was in the greenhouse. There

was bound to be mud. Pairs making stew. Yes, he is. Don't let him run out of leaves.

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