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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our third story for the month of July 2020, issue 166.

I hope you are hanging in there.

I am getting caught up. I hope to have all of July podcasts done actually in July, which is an amazing feat all things considered.

So thanks once again for all of your support and all of your patience.

Our third story for the month is titled Three Stories Conjured from Nothing and is by

Shake Space, translated by Andy Dudak.

Shake Space is a Shanghaiyanese author of science fiction and fantasy.

He loves to build worlds with imagination and language.

His stories have been published in science fiction world, and his

longer works include the science fiction novel, the scythe holder and the fantasy series

Jussieu.

When he's not hard at work sitting in front of a computer, he is probably playing with his son or training in the gym.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

One. Name.

A strange feeling suddenly arose in his body, flowing from head to foot.

His vision went briefly dark and deep thought was arrested. It took some time for his mind to

return he lay on the ground gasping for breath, not eager to open his eyes.

Get up, my left neighbor.

Information has arrived.

The command had come from the machine to his right.

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