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

I hope this podcast finds you well. Warm, happy, well fed. Thank you for coming by and listening

to yet another story. This is our fifth story for the month of November 2022 issue 194. And as always,

we can't do this without your support. So for those of you who have been supporting us via patreon.com

forward slash Clarks World, thank you so much. Every bit counts. Every bit brings us closer and

closer that 10% are more goal that we're looking for. So our story is titled hummingbird resting on

honey suckles and is by Yang Wangqing is translated by Jay Chung. Yang Wangqing is a science fiction

author and winner of many awards, including the galaxy award for Chinese science fiction. His short

story collections include the returned man and double helix. Jay Chung grew up in Guangzhou and

Southern California. They're a literary translator currently pursuing their PhD in East Asian

languages and civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Academically, their interests lie

in issues of religion, culture and identity. Outside of school, they're an avid fan of tabletop

games, she own food and horror fiction. Now my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

Red for temperature, blue for ignition, green for airflow. It takes four hours and 42 minutes for

you to finish your transformation into a pile of white ashes. I keep a patient vigil over those

three primary colors on the cremators monitor, making sure that nothing is left behind.

Nothing that can be linked to life in any case, like a charge fragment of bone.

After it's all over, I sweep you into an ebony urn with my own hands. A square,

matte black box, the kind of minimalist thing you'd like. And again, you spent your whole

life arguing with me over anything and everything. If you weren't inside this urn, I think you jump

at the chance to disagree with me. You'd have that frown on your face, same as always,

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