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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I'm happy to bring you the sixth story of the month of December,

2024, issue 219. I hope that these stories are finding you extraordinarily well,

and I want to thank you again for your ongoing support of the magazine. Please go to patreon.com

for slash Clarks World to see how you

can help bring this magazine to life each and every month. We cannot do this without you, and you have

our utmost, warmest and most appreciative thanks. Our story is titled, Driver, and is by

Samim Sadiki. Samim Sadiki is a speculative fiction writer currently living in the United States.

He enjoys writing to explore the near future realities people of South Asian ancestry and Muslim

heritage will face in the coming centuries.

His stories explore issues of migration, gender, family structure, economics, and space

habitation.

He's attended the Tin House and Futurescapes workshops, and his stories have appeared in Clark's World,

apparition lit, and popular science.

When he's not writing, Samim enjoys reveling in fatherhood, watching 90s Star Trek, and

tinkering with data and music.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to

dancing with Rushkegall and Airbody.

So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

Driver, Carrivala, Betta, Baishan, Papa.

All the words used to address me, so rarely do I remember being addressed by my name.

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