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.

Welcome to March 1st, 2022, issue 186, 186 issues.

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for slash Clark's World and chucked a dollar or more a month at us. It allows us to bring you

these stories, our nonfiction, our podcast, and our art, and all that behind the scenes work.

So thank you. So our first story for the month is titled The Dragon Project and is by Naomi

Kritzer. Naomi Kritzer has been writing science fiction and fantasy for over 20 years. Her YA

novel Cat Fishing on Catnet based on her short story, Cat Pictures Please, won the 2020

Load Star Award, Edgar Award, and Minnesota Book Award. Her latest book, Chaos on Catnet,

came out from tour team in April 2021. Naomi lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her spouse,

two kids, and three cats. The number of cats is subject to change without notice.

Naomi can also be found at her website, Naomi Kritzer.livejournal.com.

Naomi Kritzer also has the following works available at Clark's World.

In issue 160, January 2020, brought you monster, March 2017, waiting out the end of the world

in Patty's Place Cafe. In November 2015, so much cooking. In the aforementioned story,

January 2015, brought you Cat Pictures Please. If you go all the way back to October 2013,

brought you bits. So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I want you to make a dragon for me, the client said, I need it ready to go by February first.

Dragon, Feb 1. I wrote down on the paper pad I used to take notes during video meetings,

also to doodle. I've always had trouble paying attention to the client meetings, which is why I'm

the bioengineer and not the manager. Because that's Chinese New Year, the client continued,

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