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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome. This podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Welcome to our third story for the month of August 2020 issue 167.

I hope wherever you are, whatever you're doing,

however you listen to this podcast, that you are well, that you are

hanging in there, despite all the pressures that may be crumbling down upon you.

Thank you for taking this time to listen. And thank you for your ongoing

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to see how you can help support us even further. So our story is titled The Plague and is by Jan Lechung translated by Andy

Dudak. Young lives in Chichiang.

He has had a special interest in science fiction since an early age, but it wasn't until his

30s that he was first published. Since then he has published 20 books,

including novels, short story collections, essays, and poetry. So my dear

listener, I hope you can sit back and let me tell you a story.

I knew I was mad. It had to be so. No one would volunteer to do what I did. I wore a

biohazard suit every day sealed tight from head to foot and it didn't bother me at all. Actually I was quite at ease suited up.

A normal person wouldn't be so calm. No sane person even someone faded to die would be willing to do

what I did. And to do what I did.

And yet, every day I dumped truckloads of corpses

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