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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our second story for the month of October 2018,

Issue 145. And before we begin, as with all of the podcasts, thank you for your support.

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Our second story is titled Sparrow.

It is by Yilin Wang. Yilin Wong is a Chinese Canadian writer and editor who has lived in China, the U.S.

Scotland and Canada.

Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clark's World Rice Paper Magazine and

What If magazine. While her poetry has appeared in The Best of Abyss and Apex Volume 2, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, Cerebration, and other journals.

Her work has placed second for the Spark Literary Prize, as well as been long listed for the Malahat Review's Far Horizon Award for Short Fiction.

Yilin also serves as assistant editor for Room magazine and works as the Volunteer Coordinator for Growing Room,

A Feminist Littorary Festival.

She is currently writing an epic fantasy novel inspired by Chinese martial arts fiction and heroic legends, as well as

penning a collection of poetry on travel and displacement.

When she is not writing, you can find her drinking macha, watching animated films, and planning

her next trip overseas.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story. The rooftop is quiet, except for the hum of a plane passing overhead, heading to a far away elsewhere.

The sharp stench of ammonia rises from the bucket hanging from your window cleaning belt.

Running your fingers across the safety harness and clips that encircle your chest and back.

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