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It's our fourth story for the month of May.

I'm just gonna jump right into it.

The piece is titled An Evolutionary Myth and is by Bo Young Kim, translated by

Gord Cellar and Jeune Park. Kim Bo Young is one of South Korea's most active and important SF authors.

Her first published work of fiction, a novella titled The Experience of Touch,

received the award for Best Novela in the first round of the Korean Science and Technology

Creative Writing Awards in 2004.

Since then, she has published numerous works of short fiction in assorted Korean SF anthologies and magazines.

And before we begin, just want to let you know that this story was originally published

in Korean in Happy SF, volume 2 in 2006.

So without further ado, sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

In the fourth month of the seventh year, in the summer the king went fishing at the Gohan pond and caught a white fish with red wings.

In the tenth month of the 25th year, in the winter the envoy of the kingdom of Bouyeau,

came and presented a deer with three antlers and a long-tailed rabbit.

The day of the first full moon festival of the spring of the 53rd year, the envoy of the Kingdom of Bouyayo came and presented a tiger which was one Yang and two Sheuk Long and had white fur and no tail.

In the ninth month of the 55th year, in the autumn, the king was hunting south of Yil Mountain and caught a purple row deer.

In the tenth month, in the winter, a local governor presented a red leopard.

Its tale was nine Yow Long.

From the annals of the reign of King Tejo, sixth great king of Gogierio as recorded in the Gogiero annals of the Samguk-Sagai. When a protracted drought struck the kingdom, the leaves of every plant wilted down into fine

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