The Translator, at Low Tide by Vajra Chandrasekera (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This episode features "The Translator, at Low Tide" written by Vajra Chandrasekera. Published in the May 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chandrasekera_05_20 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0	You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.
0:08.0	Greetings Clark's World Citizens. This is your final story for the month of May.
0:14.3	Again, thank you for your patience.
0:18.0	The laptop is back.
0:21.2	Which means that I can catch up on all those podcasts that I owe you guys. I am so
0:25.1	excited by this fact you have no idea. So thanks again for your patience and your
0:29.5	support. I hope you are doing well yourself as you settle in and listen to our last story for the month.
0:37.6	The piece is titled The Translator at Low Tide, and is for Issue 164, May 2020.
0:44.7	It is by Vajra Chandra Sechera.
0:48.9	Vajra Chandra Sechera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
0:53.2	His work has appeared in analog, nightmare,
0:55.7	and liminal stories, among others.
0:57.9	He blogs at Vajra.me, and is at underscore
1:02.4	Vajra, Vajra, Vajra Vajra on Twitter.
1:08.0	No stranger to Clark's world, if you go back to July 2013,
1:12.4	that brought you pockets full of stones. April 2017 brought you
1:16.2	left of bang preemptive self actualization for autonomous systems And June 2018 brought you Heron of Earth.
1:27.0	So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back.
1:31.0	Relax.
1:32.0	And let me tell you a story.
1:38.0	The sea lapping at my back and my face to the fire, I translate. Poems, mostly.
1:46.1	Now that entire languages and cultures are on the verge of being lost forever to the sea,
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