You are listening to a Clarkswold magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarkswold citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Well, if not extraordinarily well, I hope you're hanging in there, I hope you're okay.

All things considered, it's been one hell of a year.

I hope that these stories have brought you some comfort, or at least a little bit of

an escape.

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Your support helps us make these issues.

Our story is titled 55 Black, inspired by Isabelle Lee.

Isabelle Lee is a writer, artist, and creative technologist from Chicago, Illinois.

Her interests include exploring the intersections between code, art, and fiction,

and you can find her work online at isabel.me.

She also enjoys painting and watching Korean thriller movies.

Isabelle is currently a senior at Yale University.

This is her second publication.

Her first story can be found in the September 2020 issue of Clarkswold.

It was titled Certainty.

So, my dear listener, I hope you sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

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