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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. welcome to November 1st.

Issue 170.

As we slide to the end of this year, I hope that you're doing okay, all things considered.

I know that the world sort of seems to be on fire everywhere you look,

but hopefully by putting in your earbuds,

this gives you a little bit of peace amongst the chaos.

I also want to thank you for your ongoing support,

whether it's saying hello via Twitter or email, or making a comment on a story you particularly love.

I think that's what shows that we can still be positive through things like this.

And I think that's more important than ever.

Also, the magazine would not be here without your continued financial support either.

So if you can do so and drop just a couple of dollars or more a month our way please go to

Patreon.com forward slash Clark's world. So our first story for the month in

November is titled The Land of Eternal Jackroots.

It is by Rupsa Day. Rupsa Day is an Indian author who believes in the power of language and

cats and is only allergic to the latter.

She believes that the boundaries of language need to break in order to accommodate the

human experience. Then she must direct herself to that purpose.

Her works explore intersectional dynamics in class and cast,

geopolitical strife, feminization of conflict,

and structures of oppression through speculative fiction, magic realism, and experimental prose.

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