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Grave of the Fireflies by Cheng Jingbo (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our second piece of audio fiction for January is “Grave of the Fireflies” written by Cheng Jingbo, translated by Ken Liu, and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well. I hope you're sticking to those New Year's resolutions. I know that my gym has been extremely full. In fact, my kickboxing class, I don't think I've ever seen that many people in there.

0:24.6

Before we begin today's podcast I'd like to give a shout out to Brent R who listens on his hour commute.

0:34.0

Noelle H.

0:35.0

Apparently while she was in Prague.

0:38.0

I kept her company while she was in her dorm.

0:41.0

She really enjoyed mongoose and tying knots. Alex S who's a web developer.

0:47.4

Ome W who's juggling a lot right now and finding the strength to make it work.

0:52.4

Go you I know how terribly frustrating life can be sometimes,

0:56.0

but moving forward one step at a time is a huge thing.

1:01.0

Season H, who listens while weaving and crocheting, can be in Toronto, who listens on long commutes.

1:10.0

Stephen W. who contacted via Twitter who really liked

1:14.0

a clockward soldier and said I stepped up my game and audio

1:17.1

well thank you very much kind sir

1:18.9

Jason via Twitter and where the tales go who had a very cute conversation where the

1:26.8

tales go was apparently going to be listening on a plane and Jason mentioned

1:31.1

how much he liked where the tales go because he was a listener of Clark's world.

1:36.0

I swear I didn't pay those people.

1:38.0

And then last but not least, Jennifer B, who says that my voice can sue the migraine and thank you

1:47.8

for that. That's very humbling to me and speaking on well-being in general and health. A few of you who have written have

1:55.6

commented on the weight loss posts that I posted on my own blog. I've been struggling

1:59.9

with weight ever since I was a little girl and in the past few years I've tried to make

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