
Immersive Remix: "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
LeVar Burton Reads
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Mam and the Shark
La ho liked to pounce at sparrows when he and i played in the back yard. But one time, a cornered bird struck back in desperation and tore his ear. He avoided birds after that. And then one day i saw a t v documentary about sharks and asked mom for one of my own. She made me a shark, but he flapped about on the table unhappily. I filled the sink with water and put him in. However, after a while, he became soggy and translucent, and slowly sank to the bottom. All i ended up with was a wet piece of paper. Ho put his front paws together at the edge of the sink and
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