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Greta Jung
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired—no one can. In “One More Kiss, Dear,” a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents. In “Seeds,” we see the final frontier of capitalism’s destruction of the planet and the GMO companies who rule the agricultural industry, but nature has ways of creeping back to life.
Chung’s writing is “haunting, funny, gross, terrifying—and yet when we reach the end, we just want more" (Alexander Chee). If you haven’t yet experienced the fruits of this singular imagination, Your Utopia is waiting.
“Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung’s terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts” (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humor and surprisingly tender moments, too.
©2024 Bora Chung and Anton Hur (P)2024 Algonquin BooksListeners also enjoyed...
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How to listen
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Critic reviews
"Unexpected, funny, thrillingly original. These stories will stick with me."—Ainslie Hogarth, author of the New York Times Best Book of the Year, Motherthing, and Normal Women
“Bora Chung’s stories glisten at the border of our weird world, and all our other weird worlds. A truly sublime book.”—Samantha Hunt, bestselling author of The Seas and The Unwritten Book
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Sylv.ie is a fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife and concealed from their child. Between her Husband's visits, deeply curious about the world beyond her room, Sylv.ie watches the family in the garden—hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes and fears only to her diary. But are such thoughts allowed? And if not, what might the punishment be?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish the book was closer to publishers summary
- By nikiverse on 06-16-21
By: Ros Anderson
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Body of Stars
- By: Laura Maylene Walter
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15
Celeste Morton has eagerly awaited her passage to adulthood. Like every girl, she was born with a set of childhood markings - the freckles, moles, and birthmarks on her body that foretell her future and that of those around her - and with puberty will come a new set of predictions that will solidify her fate. The possibilities are tantalizing enough to outweigh her worry that the future she dreams of won’t be the one she’s fated to experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking and well written
- By Chrysta Hiser on 05-01-21
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First Cosmic Velocity
- By: Zach Powers
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to Earth. To disguise this, they've used twins. But in a nation built on secrets and propaganda, the biggest lie of all is about to unravel. Because there are no more twins left.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ok
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-20
By: Zach Powers
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Trouble Walked In
- By: Mike Kupari
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15
Cassandra Blake, an employee for the Ascension Planetary Holdings Group-the largest and most powerful corporation in Nova Columbia-has gone missing. And her sister wants to know why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Noir with a scifi twist
- By Brendan Malloy on 05-08-24
By: Mike Kupari
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Big Time
- A Novel
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Waaaaay too many F bombs!
- By Kindle Customer on 03-07-24
By: Ben H. Winters
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The Every
- A Novel
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator sounds like he works for the Every!
- By Bug on 11-22-21
By: Dave Eggers
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Salvation Day
- By: Kali Wallace
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr, Kyla Garcia
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4 out of 5 stars 195
Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya - the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging story, but;
- By Casey Beckstead on 03-08-21
By: Kali Wallace
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Cursed Bunny
- Stories
- By: Bora Chung, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrated by: Greta Jung
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairytales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. But in this unforgettable collection, translated by the acclaimed Anton Hur, Chung’s absurd, haunting universe could be our own, illuminating the ills of contemporary society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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read by a robot
- By Anonymous User on 01-21-23
By: Bora Chung, and others
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Jaran
- The Novels of the Jaran, Book 1
- By: Kate Elliott
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In the past, humans were the dominant star-traveling species in the universe—until the Chapalil came, conquered, and absorbed the Earth into their intergalactic empire. One of the only humans ever granted nobility by the Chapalil, Charles Soerenson once led a failed rebellion against the alien overlords. Now his sister, Terese, has abandoned her homeworld, impelled by a broken heart to seek a new life among the worlds her brother rules. On Rhui, a planet off-limits to interstellar voyagers, Tess stumbles upon a dangerous Chapalil conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- By Maureen on 12-12-24
By: Kate Elliott
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Miss Kim Knows
- And Other Stories
- By: Cho Nam-joo, Jamie Chang - translator
- Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Written in Cho Nam-joo’s signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, these microcosmic stories prove eerily relatable under Cho Nam-joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, offering another captivating read from an essential voice in fiction.
By: Cho Nam-joo, and others
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Foreigner
- Foreigner Sequence 1, Book 1
- By: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,421
The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Sci-Fi Neville Chamberlain
- By Tango on 07-28-13
By: C. J. Cherryh
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The Delphi Effect
- The Delphi Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Rysa Walker
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106
It's never wise to talk to strangers...and that goes double when they're dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station - she never knows where she'll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ghosts, and other paranormal gifts
- By Montzalee Wittmann on 10-11-17
By: Rysa Walker
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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
- A Novel of Contemporary China
- By: Liu Zhenyun, Howard Goldblatt - translator, Sylvia Li-chun Lin - translator
- Narrated by: Ewan Chung
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 11
The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a worksite cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption.
By: Liu Zhenyun, and others
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Finder (Dramatized Adaptation)
- The Finder Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Suzanne Palmer
- Narrated by: Bradley Foster Smith, Dawn Ursula, DeJeanette Horne, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He’ll slip in, decode the ship’s compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Dramatization
- By A. on 03-20-23
By: Suzanne Palmer
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Fifteen Postcards
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Book 1
- By: Kirsten McKenzie
- Narrated by: Tracey Llewelyn
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 402
Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and disorganized
- By Miranda on 03-16-22
By: Kirsten McKenzie
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I Am Crying All Inside
- And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Book 1)
- By: Clifford D. Simak
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot, Jonathan Davis, Kevin T. Collins, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic science fiction short stories
- By Skipper on 05-04-20
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Scum of the Earth
- By: Alexander C. Kane
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 198
Ezra Barker is a traitor. When the Merg invaded Earth, he didn’t fight or even hide. He cooperated, helping them as they seized control of the planet and began their pillaging of its resources. While others toil away in mines and quarries, Ezra works an office job, helping his boss, The Senator, rule over the swath of territory given to her by the Merg. Sergeant Hayes is a brutal enforcer of the Merg’s rules. As an officer in the Health and Safety Department, he follows Merg orders, arresting, interrogating, and executing at their command.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very different from other Kane novels.
- By Jul on 01-23-24
I enjoyed it all
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I appreciate the greater social and environmental concerns that Chung wrote about, and I think this collection was a wonderful contribution to science fiction as a transgressive and innovative art form. Also, I thought the narration did justice to the narrative tone of the stories.
Innovative and imaginative short stories
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