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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our fifth story for the month of July 2019, issue 154.

The piece is titled Flowers on My Face and is by Geo Ill Bach translated by Eliza Sin and

Justin Howe.

Before we begin today's piece, I just want to say thank you

to each and every one of you,

whether this is your first time joining us here on the podcast,

or it's your 400th time. You guys are amazing. If you care to support what we do each and every month,

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community of science fiction and fantasy and related genre works.

Arthur graduated from the Business School of the Seoul National University and held various jobs in banking,

manufacturing, and trading until 1987, when he made his literary debut with the novel

in search of the epitaph, a writer of many interests in multifarious voices.

Bach has also experimented with science fiction as a vehicle for exploring the effect of scientific innovations and technological development on human life.

Notable among his science fiction works are under the Blue Moon,

and a wayfarer in history, which features time travel back to mid Josian dynasty period.

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

One, I carefully sat down on the plastic tarp covering the flat rock and side.

Since my transfer to Flake Station, I'd visited this spot whenever I'd gone above ground alone.

It was at the bottom of a steep slope inside a small crater, hidden from others and well guarded

against flying objects.

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