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Welcome to the second story, February, issue 2009. We hope that this podcast has been treating you well,

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Our story is titled The Flowers that we intend to share and is by

Rajiv Prasad.

Rajiv Prasad is a physician who lives with his wife, three kids, and a very cute dog in Northern California.

His stories have appeared in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Clark's world, and several other markets. He thanks you for reading this story.

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

Body, who had just turned 17, wanted nothing more than to ruin Devi Amma's annual orchid showing.

So it was a pleasant shock to watch the pot of mex locomote through the front gate.

As the four mex explored the estate lawn and grows of fruit trees,

the noise of the crowd gathered for Devi Amma's orchid showing,

reduced to diaphaninous disembodied murmurs.

His older brother, Arjun, crept onto the lawn barefoot, staring in fascination.

His wrongly buttoned safari shirt bunched up at his left shoulder.

Most of the afternoon, Bodi kept busy chaperoning him as per Debbieama's request.

Oh, this is different.

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