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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well as always.

Unfortunately, if you're noting the day, which is April 1st, 2014,

I don't really have any jokes. I'm sorry.

I'm kind of brain dead lately. Hopefully with the spring just around the corner, I will be able to get out of this weird sort of mental funk.

So how are you doing?

We haven't chatted in a long time.

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So our first short story for the month of April is a short one.

It's a short, short story.

The story is titled The Kuku. The Kuku.

And in is by Sean Williams, generally awesome, cool, fantastic guy. If you ever get a chance to meet him do so. Now Sean was

born in the dry flatlands of South Australia where he still lives with his wife

and family. He is a multiple recipient of the Orientalis and Ditmar awards and multiple categories

and has been nominated for the Philip K Dick Award, the Saeon Award and the William Aisling

Junior Award for criticism. Aethling Jr. Award for Criticism. He received the

Essay Great Literature Award in 2000 and the Peter McNamara Award for

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