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

Welcome to our sixth story for the month of April 2025, issue 223. I hope things are as well as they can be.

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Our story is titled In My Country and is by Thomas Ha.

Thomas Haugh is a nebula, Ignite, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction.

You can find his work in Clark's World, Lightspeed Magazine, beneath ceaseless skies, and weird horror magazine, among other publications.

His work has also appeared in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the year's

best dark fiction and horror.

His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is available for pre-order and will be released by Undertoe

Publications in September 2025. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and after a decade plus of living

in the Northeast now resides in Los Angeles with his family. And Thomas is no stranger here

to Clark's World. If you like what you're here,

and go back to The Sort, the Brotherhood of Montague Street Video, The Mub, Window Boy, and Sweet

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

My country may seem strange to you.

There are times when it seems strange to me.

I wake and work.

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