You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's citizens. I hope this podcast is finding you very, very well.

This is our last story for the month of November. We made it and onwards to December we will go.

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Our story is titled To Carry You and Side You, and is by Tia, Tashiro. Tia is a speculative fiction writer hailing from the Pacific Northwest.

By day she works in a neurobiology lab.

By night she writes and in between she dabbles in stained glass and juggling,

though never at the same time.

This is her first published story. So my dear listener I hope you can

sit back relax and let me tell you a story. In your eyes, head, the dead man wakes up crying.

He stutters into awareness just as you manage to staunch the tears welling in your eyes, a response to the pressure of his

presence in your limbic system. Your fingers brush irritated against the port at

the back of your neck, catching at the ridges of the drive that carries his consciousness.

He's confused, lashing out to rest temporary control of your limbs from you in quick staccato bursts,

before you can yank them back.

Stop that, you snap, and then remembering your client soften the message with a,

please.

Your right pinky twitches and you lasso it in exerting your will over its movement.

You display your hands on your desk and watch them carefully. Pay attention to your toes

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