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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our third story for the month of June 2018, Issue 141.

I hope whatever you're doing while you listen to the podcast you're doing well.

That's driving in your car, gardening, doing some housework, working, or the myriad other ways you find us and download and listen.

And as per usual, thank you so much for supporting us, whether it's through word of mouth, through Twitter or Facebook, or through

Patreon.com forward slash Clark'sworld, where you can become a monthly patron of the magazine.

There are some cool rewards over there as well for your

support so hope you can go over and check it out and for those of you who are

supporting us thank you so much. Without you we wouldn't be able to bring you fantastic fiction,

non-fiction art, and this podcast. So our third story for the month of June is titled The Cosmonauts Caretaker

and is by Dora Kleindrich.

Dora is a writer, journalist, an astrophysicist, not necessarily in that order,

hailing from the Republic of Croatia.

Her non-fiction has been featured on gender and media culture websites and her speculative

fiction reached the finals in the 2017 Sci-Fi London 48-hour Flash Fiction Challenge. This is her first publication. She is currently employed in the

Netherlands writing a thesis on deep space tracking of spacecraft using methods

of astronomical radio Interferometry.

When she's not building rockets, she's building worlds.

You can find her at Twitter at Dora Space Explore, and that's D-O-R-A-S-P-E-N-T-E-A-C-E-X-P-L-O-R. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Landing Planetside used to be a good feeling. Standing on the other side of the

airlocked door and knowing that when they open I would be faced with the bustling life of a busy port.

That comforting milange of voices and sense, the backdrop of civilization of aliveness that usually goes unnoticed by

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