3.1 The Shadow and the Light by Su-Yee Lin

<p><span data-sheets-value= "{"1":2,"2":"You wake up. You do your job. You eat. You speak to no one. Nothing ever changes about life here in K— — until, suddenly, it does. \"The Shadow and the Light\" is a haunting story about stagnation and self-preservation and solitude."}" data-sheets-userformat= "{"2":1049533,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":2},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":2},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":2}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":1,"11":4,"12":0,"23":1}"> You wake up. You do your job. You eat. You speak to no one. Nothing ever changes about life here in K— — until, suddenly, it does. "The Shadow and the Light" by Su-Yee Lin is a haunting story about stagnation and self-preservation and solitude.</span></p> <p>Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Su-Yee Lin, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by William Lin-Yee and produced by Jenelle DeCosta and Lian Xia Rose.</p> <p>Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag.</p> <p>Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley<br /> <a href= "https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley">https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley</a><br /> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0</p>