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Greetings Clarksworld citizens, I hope this podcast finds you well, this is our fifth story

for the month of February 2022, issue 185.

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So our story is titled The Direction of Clocks and is by Jess Levine.

Jess Levine who can be found at the website Jessfrom.online is an author, musician, kindergarten

teacher and communist organizer.

On the side she also writes and designs tabletop role playing games.

Her diverse creative interests are united by one consistent theme, lesbians.

She resides in Philadelphia on the occupied land of the Lenny Lenape people.

Her music and nonfiction writing have been featured in the magazine Bloodknife.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Before the mechanics of stellar travel seemed remotely achievable, humanity had already

devised many names for the perimeter beyond explored space.

The deep, the ether, the black, the void, an ever-expanding collection of an apt metaphors.

Even with the farthest stars finally within reach, humankind had yet to coin a phrase

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