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.

It's our fourth story for the month of February 2018, Issue 137. This is yet another long one coming in around 12,000 words, so I'm just going to get started.

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from Amazon and Waitless Books. The fourth story is titled The Power is Out.

It is by A Kuye, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon. A Kuye was born in 1990 in Hubai province and now lives in Beijing.

His work is regularly published in top magazines like Science Fiction World. He has won both Chinese

Nebula and Galaxy awards for his short fiction. His collection, Travel with

My Dear Android, was published in 2015. If you like what you hear, June 2017 brought

you an account of the Sky Whales. July 2016 brought you against the stream.

And May 2015 brought you, Mrs. Griffin prepares to commit suicide tonight.

So, my dear listeners I do hope that you can sit back

relax and let me tell you a story. One. Let's go south. Sheng handsome suddenly said to us one day.

We were out walking in the twilight, ambling about idle and listless.

Several stray birds careened blindly between the high rises.

Xow Fortune, watch them and licked his lips.

I haven't tasted meat in the long time.

Let's shoot those birds down and eat them.

Beside him, Chen Beauty furrowed her decidedly unbeautiful brow and said,

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