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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

Our second story for the month is titled It Was, and is by J.B. Park.

J.B. Parks Fiction has appeared in Nightmare magazine.

You can find J.B. at the website,

Wolves, perhaps, at Wordpress.com.

So I invite you to sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

Student A is quite eager to see me.

It's good to see a reporter actually, Carrie tells me.

His grip is hard and he has the kind of face composed by men who have no idea what normal human beings look like.

We make our way to the university.

Student A is accompanied by student B and in the middle between them is civilian C, who is similarly pretty in that cobbled together way.

Wangshu is no cheery place.

Figures are seen here and there doing things to simulate normalcy. It's like the calm before a storm,

with all the anticipatory jangle of nerves, their freight ends stirring.

Through the dim windows I see the occasional sign of movement.

Maybe a flash of white as some student lifts up a banner he has made.

The signs are many yet.

The messages are uniform.

Death to Chand-Doh Wan.

That sort of thing.

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