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This is our seventh story for the month of August 2016.

The piece is titled The Fish Merchant,

Merchant, and is by Tobias S. Pekel.

Born in the Caribbean, Tobias S. Pekel is a New York Times best-selling author.

His novels and over 50 stories have been translated into 18 languages.

He has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science

Fiction Author. He currently lives in Ohio.

You can find him at his website Tobias Bachel.com.

And if you like what you hear, May 2010 brought you a jar of goodwill, July 2009, Placa del Fuego.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Lee Hao Cheng, standing in front of a colorful array of fresh-caught fish, bargains with a

Cantonese peasant over the price of yellow-tailed snapper.

Where the wharf tapers out and the harbour is too shallow for the larger trawlers, the fish market thrives over a patch of old concrete and dirt.

The peasant finally offers enough Yuan to satisfy Li.

She's she. Li, thanks the peasant, wrapping the fish up in old newspaper.

The edge of the newspaper catches Lee's eye.

Signals from outer space, it reads.

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