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.

We are in the later half of our story slate for November 2018 issue 146. Thank you for joining us thus far.

This is our fifth story and it is titled The Love Letters and is by Pung Simung and is translated by S. Chiyoi Lu.

Pung Simung is a science fiction writer who used to work as a product manager in Tencent,

the biggest internet company in China. A themed collection of her works has appeared in one of China's top

SF magazines, Science Fiction World. Her novella Beast Boxing won an honorable award in the 2017

Duban Reading Writing Competition. She is currently setting the Creative Writing Master program at Beijing Normal University.

And like everything else, this story is brought to you by your support.

Our partnership with StoryCom and China, all of our translated works, they're because of you.

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

People say that when the Creator made all,

everything was given a purpose.

But asteroid, I-1-2-1-5-2-5-2-5-2-5-2-5-1-1 seemed to have been left out of that grand plan. This asteroid resided between two prosperous galaxies, but it had never

been established as a starport like its neighbors. It had only one stone and no ore, only sub-zero chill in no atmosphere, only howling gales and no

bird song.

Even if a cut-throat interstellar merchant

fleet scanned the asteroid's identification number,

they would be loathed to send even an exploratory probe to the asteroid's

surface.

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