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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. I am coming off of about a two and a half

week big cold, which completely took me out of commission. My voice is my commodity. And for the last

two and a half weeks, I've been coughing like nonstop and had enough congestion

that it did not sound right any time I tried to step into the booth to record you yet another

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So our piece is titled, Fractal Karma.

It is by Arula Ratnacher.

Arula Ratnachar is a computational neuroscience PhD student at Boston University and a hard science fiction author.

Her science fiction stories can be found in Clark's World magazine and The Life Beyond Us Anthology.

She's no stranger here to Clark's World. And if you like what you hear today, I implore you to go back to Axiom of Dreams, Bevarusa, Submergence, and Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City.

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

She's walking by the river on an overcast day when sweat runs down her palms,

goosebumps all over her neck,

the breeze stills.

The gray sky turns blood red,

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