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This is a podcast extra from Nature.

Each week, Nature publishes a science fiction story in its future slot.

At the end of every month, we read you our favourite. This month's story is Bread of Life,

written by Beth Cato, published on the 8th of April and read by Kerry Smith.

It was dangerous, traitorous for people to speak aloud of their memories of Earth.

It meant they risked giving the dendal exactly what they wanted.

And yet, people often couldn't help but dismiss that peril when they entered Sonia's

earth bread shop.

Sonia looked up as a man entered her business.

He was the typical sort.

In his 40s or 50s, his

hair silver. Not that different from her, gender aside. Both of them old enough to remember

Earth in its glory. He paused at the door and breathed in. Grief flashed across his face.

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