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

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to our second story for the month of June 2022 issue 189.

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So our story is titled The Art of Navigating and Affair in a Time Rift as by Nika Murphy.

Nika Murphy is a Ukrainian-born writer of speculative fiction.

When she's not busy working on her fiction MFA at Arcadia University, she subsidizes

her typewriter collection with a day job in the pharmaceutical industry.

She resides in Florida with her family.

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

In this timeline, Cran's litter at the kitchen table, red from ours, pink and orange for clouds,

Cerulean, for the dot in the sky I call home, in this timeline.

Jeannie sticks at her tongue when she colors.

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