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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Thank you for spending this time with us as we go through the stories of April 2021

from issue 175.

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This story is titled The Sheen of Her Carapace and is by Richard Webb.

Richard Webb writes long and short fiction and has been published in Teleport magazine,

Legends, New Con Press, Blood Moon Rising, Remastered Words, and Starship Sofa among others.

He was the winner of the British Fantasy Society Short Story Contest 2020.

He lives feral in the wild, carving out stories on trees with his bare claws.

He tweets at raw underscore writing.

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

Falling in love, always wondered about that, falling like it's an accident, tripping

over something.

Our ship, Perseverance, drifted into orbit of a planet we call Big Yellow.

We were wandering lonely as a dust cloud, having jumped away from some bad heat back in

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