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

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

Our last original piece of fiction for the month of September 2017, issue 132, is titled Mobius Continuum. It is by Gu-Shee, translated by S.

Quioye Lou.

Gu-Shee is a speculative fiction writer and an urban planner, a graduate of Shanghai's Tongki University.

She obtained her master's degree in urban planning from the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design.

Since 2012, she has been working

as a researcher at the Academy's Urban Design Institute.

Miss Gu has been publishing fiction since 2011 in markets like

super nice science fiction world, mystery world, and SF king.

Notable works include chimaimera, Memory of Time, and Reflection. In 2014, she won the silver

award for Best New Writer at the Chinese Nebula. Currently she is working on her first novel

The Reign of Eternal Delight. An alternate history set in the court of an empress

ruling the dynasty founded by Wu Zetian, the first Chinese empress.

Also by this author, if you like it, Kamiira, March 2016. So I invite you to sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.

Zero. The end.

Five minutes ago, the skies were clear and boundless.

The moment dark clouds bore down from between the mountains I knew we were done for.

The quarrel couldn't have been smaller. I don't remember what exactly I did to make Lee Kaye's eyebrows twitch.

But I knew she was angry. So I poured her a cup of honey water and set it on the tea table as a silent apology.

But X drank it instead.

I hate to quarrel.

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