LeVar Burton Reads podcast

"Shock of Birth" by Cadwell Turnbull

8/24/2021

LeVar Burton Reads

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A man questions his current existence -- and the life he remembers from before. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, and reprinted in Lightspeed.

Content advisory: mention of mental illness

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