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

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It is our second story for April 2021 issue 175. I hope that you are hanging in there.

Thank you for joining us for yet another tale. I want to thank you again.

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Our second story is titled The Field Tiger and is by Andrea Issa Richardson.

Andrea Richardson is a queer black and melee person taking her time and writing stories

about ghosts, race, rocks, and the prison industrial system. She holds a JD from Stanford

but is doing her best to retire from lawyering. You can find her wondering about among the red

woods on a lony land in Oakland, California. And you can find more of her work at FIA,

in Atthema, in forthcoming in Fireside magazine. You can also find her at her website

AndreaRichardson.com

So without further ado, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

They held Memorial 56 at midday in August, while the sun beat like a hammer

in the hard pale sky. The mourners stood. They had removed the broad brimmed hats

which might have offered relief out of respect. Sweat dripped from the uncovered foreheads

into the stoic animal eyes. The dust covered bandanas wrapped around the face

to protect the lungs from irritation in the long dry fields darkened,

grew oppressive, with sweat. To a committee member, the dark rags would suggest hands

clamped over the nose and mouth. But the masks allowed messages to travel between mourners,

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