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Toasted Cake 200: Ticket by Ken Liu

Episode #200! In which we can write our own ticket.

Even with all the lights on, my room is dim. In the sunset of my life, I live in a perpetual, hazy twilight.

This story first appeared in the Stanford Anthology for Youth. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, Ken Liu is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (The Grace of Kings (2015), The Wall of Storms (2016), and a forthcoming third volume) and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016), a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017).

Original airdate: November 18, 2018