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 podcast finds you very well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump into the third story for the month of May, 2015.

The piece is titled Mrs. Griffin prepares to commit suicide tonight and is by Ahh Chueh translated by John Chu. Chue was born in Shinkhou,

who by in 1990 and graduated from the hydraulic and hydropower engineering department of Sichuan University.

In 2012, he published his first work, quietly awakening,

which was soon followed by Wine cup flowing on the rivers,

walking with robots,

Childhood of Harvest, and I tell stories about my grandfather.

Our translator today, John Chu, is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, a translator, a

podcast narrator by night. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Uncanny Asimov Science Fiction, Apex magazine and Tor.com. His story, The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere, won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

And this is one of those stories that is translated and published in partnership with StoryCom.

If you remember the Chinese translation

Kickstarter that Neil ran, this is a product of that support.

So thank you if you contributed. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

When L. W 31, a domestic model robot brought Mrs. Griffin's dinner into her bedroom, it found her preparing to commit suicide.

She was trying to tie a rope to the pendant lamp, but at her age her eyes were too weak, and

her hands were no longer steady.

She tried again and again, but she couldn't loop the rope around the lamp.

Do you need any assistance, Mrs. Griffin?

L. W. 31 set down Mrs. Griffin's meal tray, then walked to her side.

Mrs. Griffin put her hands on her waist.

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