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.

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forward slash Clarks World.

Your support matters each and every single issue. So our second story for the month is called Amherville and is by

Bella Han. Bella Han is a Chinese science fiction and fantasy writer.

She earned an MA in English from Peking University

and won the 2018 Galaxy Award with her first Sci-fi novel at Amerville.

She writes in both Chinese and English,

translates, and draws.

You can find more at bellahhan.net. So my dear listeners I do hope you can sit back. Relax and let me tell you

a story.

She had known that she would end up like this, but she gave in lights, music.

She closed her eyes in a sea of beautiful visages

she reached out to the one and only beloved face.

Thoreau, I know it's a meaningless name to you all.

Yet this Thoreau was the founder of our economy today. Imagine a world 200 years ago, when the

sky was blue and the grass green, and people just idled about. This Yankee, Thoreau, lived by a lake for two years doing nothing and suddenly came up with an idea.

We don't have to have anything.

She put down the pen.

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