Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.

In every episode I hand pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

I love a good story about someone finding their purpose.

I believe that everyone has something that they were put on this planet to accomplish,

something that they were born to do, right?

And it's really just all about figuring out what that is, what your gift is, what you've

really come to deliver in your lifetime.

And I think that it really tends to be about figuring out what your passions are.

What are you good at, right?

Because it's that at which you excel where your destiny probably lies.

So anyway, in today's story, we've got a young man known as Compass, who lives in Kuala

Lumpur, who is finding his purpose.

Compass makes his living doing card tricks, but he's also got a bit of genuine magic of his

sleeve.

And one of his magical talents is actually finding things.

So when a special cooking walk is stolen from a beloved local chef, he goes looking for

it and gets himself into some trouble.

Compass winds up in the basement of a shopping center undergoing an intense interrogation

by a hired thug.

Now the narration of the story bounces back and forth between Compass telling the story

of his walk heist to his interrogator and, at the same time, telling the story to us.

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