You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this finds you incredibly well.

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stories, thank you for being part of this community. So our fifth story for the month of July 2021

issue 178 is titled I'm Feeling Lucky by Leonid Kaganoff, translated by Alex Schwartzman.

Leonid Kaganoff from St. Petersburg, Russia is a scriptwriter and multiple award-winning author

of 10 novels and short story collections. His fiction has been translated in published in France,

Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Estonia. This is his first English language publication.

You can find more about Leonid over at his website lleo.me. So my dear listeners, I hope you can

sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

My sandwiches will soon appear on the kitchen shelf. Grandpa on doesn't eat sandwiches because he has

cancer. He has only a couple of months left to live. That's what the doctor said in the corridor

and when I overheard it, I cried all evening long. This had been two winters ago when I was really

little and used to cry a lot. Grandpa has a gray moustache, the best moustache in the world.

Also his head is funny looking. It's bald and covered in dark spots. It's warm and velvety

to the touch. Grandpa smokes his pipe and watches TV. Grandpa's eyes are always laughing.

He's with us for now but at some point he will leave for a distant future where scientists will

have learned how to cure cancer. Mom said so. Grandpa, their voice is coming from the television

as Grandpa on watches the news. This is a foolish thing to do because tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,

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