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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. This is our fourth story for the month of September

2020, issue 168. I hope you're doing well. I hope that these stories have brought you a modicum of comfort with all the craziness

that has been going on in the world.

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So our story is titled Certainty and is by Isabel Lee. Isabel Lee is a writer, artist, and creative technologist from Chicago, Illinois.

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

She also enjoys painting in watching Korean thriller movies.

Isabel is currently a senior at Yale University and this is her first publication

in a major literary magazine.

She can be found at Isabelle E.

That me. So sit back, relax and let me tell you a story.

Here you are.

Take a look around you and remember it all. The gray sky that reveals no sun and casts no shadows, the dense blackness of trees encircling

this place like a crown. You step out of the car, crushing wet gravel underneath your shoes, and marvel at how little this feels like a dream.

Behind you, Lomis shuts the door to the driver's seat.

You both squint at the sleek structure looming in the near distance the crown jewel against the surrounding forest

You imagine the building was designed to look formidable

Modern but to you it just looks lonely. The concrete facade is punctured by thin

black windows and angular frames steadfast against the sky as it cleaves fast

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