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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. Our host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark World Citizens.

I hope if you're on the American side of listening, you had a wonderful holiday.

And I wish you peace and joy and warmth for the holidays yet to come for all of the

listeners around the world. There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump into the story.

Our fifth story for November 2017, issue 134, is titled The Catalog of Virgins.

And is by Nicoleta Valorani, translated by Rachel S. Cordasko.

Nicolet Valorani is a professor of contemporary English literature and cultural studies at the University of Milan and a translator from English.

Her first novel, El Kure, Finto D. D.R.

Her dystopian novel, Ava, was published by Enaudi in 2002

and her noir novel, Le Madrigatif Salani 2012 was awarded the

Trimio Maria Teresa D. Lassia in 2012.

She has published novels and short stories, often blending science fiction and crime fiction.

She is published in France by Gully Mard.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

Content warning contains the word rape and describe sexual assault. Sharks, shadows of teeth in this darkness.

I should have left immediately because this delay in this darkness.

I should have left immediately because this delay could prove fatal.

I watched.

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