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

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Welcome to May 1st, 2022.

You made it to another month.

And thank you and thanks for joining us along on the ride.

Thank you for supporting the magazine. Please go to patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld.

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Our first story is titled Once Upon Term by Rich Larson.

Now Rich Larson was born in Gummy Niger, has lived in Spain and the Czech Republic,

and is currently based in Grand Prairie, Canada.

His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages among them Polish, French, Romanian, Japanese,

and his Clarksworld story Ice was adapted into an Emmy-winning episode of Love, Death, and Robots.

Rich Larson can be found at the website patreon.com forward slash Rich Larson.

Like I mentioned, Rich is no stranger here to Clarksworld. You can find you are born exploding in issue 183 December 2021.

Through an issue 181 in October 2021.

Last, nice day. July 2021.

And 12 other stories.

If you go to this particular story on the magazine's website, you can find a list of all of Rich's stories that we've published here at Clarksworld.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

Let me tell you a story.

Red's body is a sleep in the protoplasmic muck, dreamless when mother's cable riggles down under the surface to find her.

It pushes through the membrane of her neural stoma and pipes the cold tingling slurry inside, a sliver of mother becomes red, and red.

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