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PseudoPod 637: ARTEMIS RISING 5: White Noise (http://pseudopod.org/2019/03/06/pseudopod-637-ar5-white-noise/)
Author: Kai Hudson (http://pseudopod.org/people/kai-hudson/)
Narrator: Chris Tang (http://pseudopod.org/people/chris-tang/)
Host: Sandra M. Odell (http://pseudopod.org/people/sandra-m-odell/)
“White Noise” was previously published in the April 2018 issue (http://www.anathemamag.com/white-noise) of Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Show Notes
“Despite its speculative content, I wrote this story to illustrate the complexities of the immigrant experience. In these current political climes, it’s important to recognize how many people struggle to be heard and understood in more ways than one. My family and I are first-generation immigrants from Taiwan, and growing up I frequently witnessed other people making fun of my parents’ accents or simply ignoring them because they didn’t “sound American”. “White Noise” is my attempt to bring that experience to light, and if it comes with a ghost baby, then so be it.”
“It’s a hearing aid,” Nina says, with a careful smile.
Robert frowns at the little device on the table. It’s innocuous-looking enough: a silver teardrop roughly the size of his thumb—not brown? Aren’t hearing aids brown?—with the clear plastic tube part that wraps around the shell of the ear. It looks delicate, and expensive.
He wants to smash it to bits.
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