Greetings Clarkfield citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. This is our sixth story for the month of May 2021 issue 176.

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Our piece is titled Spore is by Tang Feh. It was translated by Andy Dudak.

Tang Feh is a member of science fiction and fantasy writers of America. Her works have appeared in Shanghai literature, flower city and fiction world.

She has written fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, and ushia.

But prefers to write in a way that straddles or stretches genre boundaries. Many of her stories have been published internationally and her work has been included in the year's best science fiction in the United States.

She has published a collection of stories the person who sees status and a novel, The Unknown Feast. Her story Panda Breeder was selected as a Smoke Long Quarterly's best flash fiction of 2019.

The same year Hootings, Journey to the West, won speculative fiction and translations most popular short story Silver Medal.

Spore was awarded the 2020 Chinese Readers Choice Awards for the Gravity Awards for Best Short Story.

She's also involved in different art forms such as literary criticism, poetry, installation, and photography.

Tang Feh is no stranger here to Clark's world back in June 2014. We brought you Pepe.

January 2015 brought you in a universal elegy. May 2017 brought you the person who saw status.

And July 2019 brought you Hootings, Journey to the West.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

This is a small story, so don't expect too much from it. The tale proceeds directly from beginning to end and waste no time about it.

Truth be told, I never thought the day would come I'd write it down.

The first time I saw her, I didn't think anything would happen. Nothing worthwhile ever really happens here.

They call this place End City, though some call it the Looking Glass City.

Fortunately, it's not as affected and unconventional as these names would imply.

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