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This is our fourth story for issue 158, November 2019.

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So our four story is titled Sentinel.

It is by Chung Gywaiu Kim.

Translated by Charles Lusher,

Chung Juyu Kyiu Kim is a Korean science fiction writer.

In 2005, he won Science Technology Literature Award

of Bayou Song, and has since won three other SF awards for

update in 2014, our Banished World 2016, and all the Amusement Park in the universe in 2017.

Our Banished World was translated into English and published in ready-made Bautissatva in 2019.

His short fiction has been collected in two collections, Our Banish World and Samsada.

Kim currently teaches storytelling at a college.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, Xiong Che opened his eyes. The first thing to come into view was the ceiling, which was

made from lengths of wood that met at an angle to form a gable roof. The lumber had been

just barely stripped of its bark with a plane, soaked in water, and then dried before being used as building material.

It had not been painted at all. It was nature in its raw form, the ceiling of his very own house. But beneath

it, Jong-che, felt no peace at all. Restricting his movements to the bare minimum,

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