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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast is finding you very, very well.

Welcome to our fifth story for the month of May, issue 212. I hope that these

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So our piece is titled The texture of memory of light by Samarra Oman.

Samarra Oman is a speculative fiction writer who lives in the mossy Pacific Northwest with

her husband and two appropriately mischievous cats.

She believes the Pacific Northwest be one of the most delightfully uncanny places on the planet.

Her work has previously appeared in Clark's World as well as in venues like Fireside magazine and diabolical lots.

And if you like which here,

please consider going back to 13 ways of looking at a cyborg

and the whelk.

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

As my implants processed and transform the scene in front of me from moment to memory, the silky

iridescence of an oil slick slid over my field of vision. With that wash of colors came a muted morning,

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