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

Welcome to the first story for the month of February, 2025, issue 221.

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Our story is titled Body Hoppers and is by Rosio Vega.

Rosio writes science fiction and fantasy.

She won the best short story and best anthology Ignatis Award for Compagia Amable, and also has published the Horizonte

Rojo novels and several stories in anthologies and magazines.

She's a big fan of video games and TTRPGs and sometimes plays and rants about them online.

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

One. hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story. 1.

They wake up in a body that isn't theirs, repeating a series of words.

Dragonfly, laser, 2380, and two domino.

They open their eyes.

The pastel pink paint on the walls hurts to look at. The body is

sound, the retina's intact. What's new is the mind. They breathe. Breathe for the first time in

weeks. Dragonfly laser, 2380 and two domino. They need to write it down before they forget.

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