You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator,

Kate Baker, greetings, Clark's World Citizens, and welcome to our third story for the month of June 2023,

issue 201. I hope that you're doing well. I hope that you're enjoying these stories thus far.

Before I begin this story, just want to let you know that Amazon is making some huge changes to

the way that they do subscriptions. And this is going to impact Clark's world quite significantly

in terms of income, any amount that you can use to support our magazine as we go through this

change would be greatly appreciated. Please go to patreon.com forward slash Clark's world to see

how you can help out to help bring you fiction, nonfiction, podcast, art, and everything that we do

here at the magazine. And for those of you who already are or have subscribed in the past or

supported us in some way or another, my sincerest thanks. You allow us to do the things that I

really love doing. So thank you. Our story is titled Day 10,000 is by Isabel J. Kim.

Now Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City. She is a

Shirley Jackson Award winner and her short fiction has been published in Clark's World,

light speed and strange horizons among other venues. When she's not writing, she's either

practicing law or co-hosting her internet culture podcast. Wow, if true, both equally noble pursuits.

Isabel is no stranger here to Clark's world. So if you like what you hear, please consider going

back to Zeta Epsilon, calf cleaving in the benthic black termination stories for the cyberpunk

dystopia protagonist. The massage lady at Muljong wrote a bathhouse and homecoming is just

another word for the sublimation of the self. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back relax.

And let me tell you a story.

I am once again reinventing the wheel. A man who will be given a second name in 10,000 years,

and a man whose name will be forgotten, sit in a forest, or perhaps a grassy plain, or perhaps a

...