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From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2009

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This month's audio fiction is From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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From The Lost Diary of Tree Frog 7.

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Fiction by Nettie Okoraphore, as narrated by Kate Baker, for Clark's World magazine,

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Issue 32, May 2009.

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Translating Appendix 820 of the Forbidden Greeny Jungle

0:21.0

Guide

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This series of audio files was created by Tree Frog 7. It has been

0:27.1

automatically translated into text.

0:30.3

Entry 1. 20.09 hours.

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Some clumsy beast has been stalking us.

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It only comes out at night and it moves with no regard for the bush's plants and detritus on the jungle floor.

0:46.2

It sounds big and is probably dangerous.

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And I think it brings a smell of flowers with it. I can smell it now like sweet lilacs.

0:56.0

Does Moratory 36 even notice? I wonder.

1:01.0

Regardless of the creature's presence, he continues to compile information, and I put it together

1:06.9

and upload the finish entries into the Greeny Jungle Field Guide.

1:11.5

That's our mission and our system.

1:14.0

Down with ignorance, upload information.

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We are true great explorers of knowledge and adventure.

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Jakuju willing will survive this day as we have the hundreds of others since choosing

1:26.7

to dedicate our lives to informing the ignorant masses about this great jungle. Whatever is stalking us, we'll deal with it when the time comes.

1:37.0

Field Guide Entry uploaded at 0.1.55 hours. God bug. The God bug is an insect of the taxonic order, a

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who ebebe, which includes all beetles. It is common in the greeny jungle, usually blue, sometimes green.

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