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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Extinction |

Brother, You Would Not Believe

By Kathy Chao

Brother, you would not believe the things that I have seen.

So quoth some poet in the thirteenth century, so quoth you, at the dawn of the twenty-first.

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Kathy Chao is a writer and data scientist based in Queens, New York. Her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Strange Horizons, and The Georgia Review. She was awarded second prize in the 2023 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition. Chao is currently working on a novel about globalization and political intrigue in the fifteenth-century Timurid Empire.

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