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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. This is our fourth story for the

month of April 2019, issue 151. As always, thank you so much for your support.

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So our fourth story is called The Flowering, and is by Suyun Jengeng, translated by G. Huyun Park and Gord Seller.

Suyun Jeng is a science fiction writer, translator, and human rights lawyer living in Seoul, South Korea.

Her fiction has appeared in numerous South Korean SF anthologies since 2004.

Her short story, Cosmic Go, recently published an English translation in the collection

Ready Made Bautizatva, Los Angeles Kaya Press 2019 won the 2005 Science and Technology Creative Award.

And her Short Story Collection won the Book of the Year for Young Adults in South Korea

Award in 2015.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Nothing. Nothing is unsearchable.

Did you know that there's a prison in Yung Dengpo?

No, that's a school. I mean a real prison, like the one in Hong Hong.

There's one in Seoul too, near Gura Fire Station.

Of course it doesn't come up on any map search.

It's never come up when I've searched for it either,

even though I'm from Seoul.

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