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

Greetings, Clark's citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

We're into our first reprint for the month of April 2018,

Issue 139. The piece is titled The Baby Eaters by Ian McHugh. Ian McHugh.

Ian McHugh's first success as a fiction writer was winning the short story contest

at the National Science Fiction Convention in his native Australia in 2004.

Since then he has sold stories to magazines,

web zines, and anthologies in Australia

and internationally, and recently achieved

a career goal of having his number of published stories overtake his number of birthdays.

His first collection, Angel Dust, was shortlisted for the Aurelius Award,

for Best Collection in 2015. You can find Ian at his website, Ian McHugh. And just as a reminder, the reprint you're listening to the original stories every month the art the

non-fiction and these podcasts would not be possible without your continued support.

Please go to ClarksworldCitizen.com

to see how you can help with that mission.

So without further ado, I invite you to sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story. Mechaisek is big, even among Badar Krithkini, a circumstance exacerbated by the fact that I'm both already nervous and kneeling in anticipation of her entrance.

Her skin is purple black, more text yellow, horizontally slit.

When she smiles, her teeth are noticeably stained.

Machesek acquired an addiction to coffee during her times as an ambassador,

on friendship, and Pero Zambizi.

The smile is a human expression meant to put me at ease but her fangs are intimidating.

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