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 extraordinarily well.

This is our last podcast for the month of September 2020,

issue 168.

I hope you were doing well, as we moved to autumn here in the US.

The leaves changing color gently falling to the ground.

I hope you're able to get out and enjoy the sun and the warmth while it lasts, wherever you may be.

Thank you for your support of the podcast.

If you haven't already, please go to Patreon.com forward slash Clark's World to see how you can help support this magazine even further.

Our last story is titled The Book Reader and is by Keshi Kajifune and is translated by Toshiya Kameh.

Keshi Kajifune is a Japanese writer of science fiction.

He is authored security service division, 2018, and Buso Rocatai in 2018.

In 2020, his story, Hon.

Noiomero Tokobetsu-Nachanosho.

One honorable mention in the first Kaguya science fiction contest organized by Virtual Gorilla Plus.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story. Outside the window a large whale swims or rather floats in the clear

early summer sky. As its disproportionately huge eyes turned toward me, the whale's body becomes tinted

eerily dark red, and its flesh starts dripping.

I gaze around the white-walled physics classroom.

The digital textbook remains open on my tablet still showing today's lesson.

An infinite number of ants crawl up my hands on the desk, or so I feel.

When I blink a few times, they're gone without a trace.

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