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Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. I hope that you're sticking to whatever New Year's resolutions

you made. Our second story for the month of January 2016 is titled The Abduction of Europa.

It is by E. Catherine Tobler.

E. Catherine Tobler is a Sturgeon Award finalist and Editor at Shimmer magazine. E Catherine.com and that's E C A T H E R I N E. E.

Also by this author is Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Third Sound Remix, June 2015.

Pithing Need, October 2014.

May 2014 brought you migratory patterns of underground birds.

May 2013 brought you R plus D divided by I equals M and in November 2012 to see the other

whole against the sky.

And in June 2012, you were she who abode.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Everything blurs.

This morning I thought it was the condensation of my breath upon the helmet's convicts

interior, but it is something else.

Deep space shapes our eyes in ways unknown.

Under this pressure, Europa is hazy, distant water plumes fogging in the horizon, but closer to,

and I think there is an undiscovered crevice. We should be more

mindful but we shoulder on single file metal cleats biting into the thin ice that covers Europa's salt ocean.

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