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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens and welcome to the first story for the month of April.

I do hope wherever you find yourself listening to this particular podcast that you are well and happy. Our first story for the month

is titled The Lark Ascending is by Eliana Castroyani.

Eliana Casroyani is a writer, poet, and nomadic subject, a cultural geographer by training.

Eliana tells stories from the margins of history, a dark and mystical Greece marked by violence,

and the far or not so far futures of capitalism and

entropicine. Ariana's writing has appeared in beneath ceaseless skies

podcastal fantasy magazine fireside the stinging fly stranger Paudcastle, Fantasy magazine, Fireside, The Stinging Fly, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.

Lives in Athens, Greece with a growing number of string instruments.

Eliana is no stranger here to Clark's World.

If you like what you hear, please go back to staying

with the end of the world, SF futures of hope during ecological devastation.

When we find our voices without exile and darkness our mother.

So with that I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

They even took the violins. Every last one of them,

Amadeus, Josephine, Mulberry, Nester.

They came into the house through the front door,

guests without a host, a peculiar band of invited thieves.

Plugged into my power station as a seemingly unthreatening household device,

I watched them as they ransacked a life. They chatted and joked while scrubbing every

nook and cranny, erasing every trace, Papa. They worked fast and efficiently. Within a

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