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

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

This is our second story for the month of July 2019,

Issue 154. Thank you for always being supportive of this magazine. Just by coming back and listening,

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So our second story is titled Singh Cho and it's by In Yee Sheng.

In Yee Sheng is a Singaporean poet,

fictionist, playwright, journalist, researcher, translator, and LGBT IQ activist.

He recently published his first collection of SFF stories, Lion City, which was named

by the Endless Book Shelf as the Best Book of 2018, and co-edited the anthology Sanctuary short fiction from Queer Asia.

He is a winner of the Singaporean Literature Prize, a nominee for the Pushcart Prize,

and has had his tales published in Lontar, Mitzala Review in Onspeck.

He tweets and Instagram's at Yish kebab.

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

My grandfather was a Rick Shaw Cooley.

He was born in China in the late 19th century in a tiny village upriver from the coast of

Füchien province.

It was a time of misfortune.

The rice harvests had failed. The landlords were heartless. His mother had

hanged herself to escape her gambling debts. There was no food, no work, no means for him to

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