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 well.

This is our second to last story for the month of January 2020,

issue 160. As always, thank you so much for your support for this magazine. Whether you tweet about the story,

whether you tell a friend, or whether you visit us on Patreon.com forward slash

Clark's World to pledge a dollar or more in support each and every month.

Thank you so much for taking the time and for considering to support us financially.

Every little bit helps. So our fifth story for the month of January is titled The Perfect Sale.

It is by Aye Hung-Yon, translated by Elsa Sin and Justin Howe.

Aye-hung-Yon is a Korean. by Elsa Sin and Justin Howe.

Aye Hung-Yon is a Korean writer.

She debuted in 2005 with a short story, The Black Starfish,

which won her the Tsung new writer award. Since then she's won multiple awards for

The Big Wolf Blue and Kun's Journey and Lucca. Most recently she won the 2019 Yee sung a literary award for their first and second cats.

In 2015 her story Danny was translated to English as part of the series.

So my dear listener, I do hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

You're dying, the stranger,

you're dying, the stranger told Cheng.

To tell you the truth, you have less than a week to live

I advise you to hasten your decision if you remain here you will surely dissolve into nothingness

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