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Our second story for the month of December is Painter of Stars and is by Wang Yuan and translated by Andy Dudak.

Wang Yuan is a YA science fiction author living in Haibay, China. His works have been published in

Zwe Found, One, Kido, and similar platforms. He won two Kido Light Year Award

first prizes in the long and short form science fiction categories and has a

morning star award for best novelette. He loves soccer and movies. Andy

Dudak is our translator and Andy has fiction in Clark's world.

His other fiction has appeared in analog, Apex, Daily Science Fiction Fiction plots, Flash Fiction Online, Not One of Us, and many other venues.

He's been honorably mentioned by Gardner Dozwa and recommended by Lois Tilton.

You can find Andy at his website Andy Dudak.

Tumblr.com. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you

a story. One, deepening dusk.

I stood by the window gazing dusk. I stood by the window gazing through fire-resistant glass at the falling locus of the sun.

The long sentence of the day was about to reach its period. For three days I had

understood time in a new way abandoning the traditional hour, minute, and

second hands of the clock, conceiving in an infinitely divisible life.

Scorching agony and colossal solitude dominated my CPU.

I grew impatient, restless.

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