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The piece is titled The FaceCrafter and is by Anna Wu and translated by Emily Jin.

Anna Wu or Wu Shang is a Chinese science fiction writer,

film and TV playwriter.

Her film script, Cloud and Mist, won the gold medal of originality

for the best science fiction film of the Sixth Nebula Award for Global Chinese Science Fiction.

Her works have been published in magazines such as Galaxy's Edge and Science Fiction World. As a translator, Anna's work includes as a

translator on his work includes stories for the science fiction collection The Shape of

Thought by Ken Lou. Her own science fiction novella collection, Twins,

was published in June 2017.

So without further ado, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

It was the end of all chaos. The room was clouded with murky smog.

Ling-shi had coughed herself awake. She recognized the acidic smell of waste.

It's from the agriculture room, she thought to herself.

The air pipes must have broken again.

Rolling off her bed, Ling-She, began her simple wash-up routine. The stream of water dripping

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