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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. This is our third story for the

month of December 2018, Issue 147. For those of you who are patrons or subscribers or Clark's World Citizens,

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Our third story is titled When We Find Our Voices

and is by Eliana Castroyani.

Eliana writes speculative fiction from the margins of history

and the far futures of the Anthropocene.

Their fiction has appeared in beneath ceaseless skies,

podcastle, and strange horizons, among other places.

Find them on Twitter at Nomad Ological and at their website

Eleana Castroyani dot wordpress. com. And if you like what you hear

darkness our mother was featured in our December 2017 issue.

And without exile, April 2018.

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

They load us on a boat on the night when the moon's egg cracks. I put one foot

behind the other on unsteady cedar wood planks, my ankle ornaments shaking.

We are veiled in purple damask, our hair and feathers oiled with aromatic resin. By the time we reach the shore, the smells of tar and stale water will have latched onto us,

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