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

Greetings, Clarksual citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our second story for the month of March 2021, issue 174.

I hope, wherever you are, however you're listening, that you are keeping well, you are staying healthy,

and you are trying to find some semblance of happiness throughout this year of pandemic.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and as we continue to hear news of more people getting

vaccines, hopefully we'll start trending towards whatever the new normal will be.

I want to thank you for spending this time with me, for listening to yet another story here at

the magazine. And thank you for your ongoing support. Please visit patreon.com forward slash

Clarksworld to see how you can support us if you aren't already, and if you are, thank you so

very much. We can't do this without you. So our second story is titled Homecoming is just another

word for the sublimation of the self, and is by Isabel J. Kim. Isabel J. Kim is a Korean American

science fiction and fantasy writer, and she's not writing, she's a law student at the University

of Pennsylvania, which is significantly less exciting to talk about. She also co-hosts Wow If True,

a podcast about internet culture. Her interactive fiction, Hang Maker, has been published in Sub

Q Magazine in 2020. Find her at Isabel J. Kim on Twitter, and also her website isabel.Kim.

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

You are waiting for your instance in the basement of the Shinsege apartment store. This was as good

as an amusement park when you were a kid. It was a wonderland of delicious food stalls in a typical

weekend haunt because your grandfather lived two blocks away. Your grandfather is dead. Your

instance gave you the news, a phone call in the dead of night that woke you from a dead sleep.

Hello, you said? Accented with slumber. Is this soyong kong? Your own voice had accented with

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