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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It's our second story for the month of March 2018, issue 138. This is a really, really long story. I think it's one of the longest we've ever done.

So I'm just going to jump right into the story. But first, I just want to thank you if you support the magazine.

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So our second story is titled The Persistence of Blood

and is by Juliet Wade.

Juliet Wade combined a trip to Le Gufer

de Padarach with her academic background in linguistics and

anthropology to create the world of Varin, a grand experiment in speculative ethnography.

She lives in the Bay Area of California. Grand Experiment in Speculative Ethnography.

She lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and two children who support and

inspire her.

Her fiction has appeared in Clark's World Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction.

She runs the dive into world building video series

and workshop at Patreon.com forward slash Juliet Wade.

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