Short stories, tall ideas.....mythic to modern, grim to whimsical.
Sound Design by Brent Robison and Tom Newton.
Audio Engineering by Tom Newton.
Image above by Bryan Maloney.
The Strange Recital is also available on: iTunes, Soundcloud, Facebook, TuneIn, YouTube, Spotify and iHeart Radio.
Short stories, tall ideas.....mythic to modern, grim to whimsical.
Sound Design by:
Brent Robison and Tom Newton.
Audio Engineering by Tom Newton.
Image above by Bryan Maloney.
The Strange Recital is also available on: iTunes, Soundcloud, Facebook, TuneIn, YouTube and iHeart Radio.
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The Girlie Playhouse
by V.N. Alexander
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"How's your IPA?" "Not bad." "So...are your classes going okay?" "Well, yes and no. Are you finding that these students think differently than we did? It's like they take everything literally." "No sense of poetry or metaphor, you mean? I see the same thing with the math students. For instance, the idea of imaginary numbers."
Two men talking...but this is no normal conversation. Too many heady ideas. It's more like role-playing or something. Who are they, and what's going on?
"How's your IPA?" "Not bad." "So...are your classes going okay?" "Well, yes and no. Are you finding that these students think differently than we did? It's like they take everything literally." "No sense of poetry or metaphor, you mean? I see the same thing with the math students. For instance, the idea of imaginary numbers."
Two men talking...but this is no normal conversation. Too many heady ideas. It's more like role-playing or something. Who are they, and what's going on?
Narrated by Brent Robison and Tom Newton.
Narrated by Brent Robison and Tom Newton.
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To be young forever...is it really what you want? In this excerpt from a new novel, a woman born in the Catskills over two hundred years ago returns to her home, seeking the source of her immortality. What could go wrong?
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To be young forever...is it really what you want? In this excerpt from a new novel, a woman born in the Catskills over two hundred years ago returns to her home, seeking the source of her immortality. What could go wrong?
Narrated by Casey Scieszka.
Narrated by Casey Scieszka.
"I don’t remember how I heard about the burned girl. Probably it was my new friend Scot, with his spiritual leanings and whom I was seeing a lot of at that time, who told me. A new friend is useful in the kind of crisis that ensues when you are cutting your old life loose, or have had it cut loose for you."
A woman's intimately-told meditation on how empathy for another's suffering may be crucial in weathering personal trauma.
"I don’t remember how I heard about the burned girl. Probably it was my new friend Scot, with his spiritual leanings and whom I was seeing a lot of at that time, who told me. A new friend is useful in the kind of crisis that ensues when you are cutting your old life loose, or have had it cut loose for you."
A woman's intimately-told meditation on how empathy for another's suffering may be crucial in weathering personal trauma.
Narrated by Lisa Starger.
Narrated by Lisa Starger.
"Affecting lightheartedness, I trod the moist pavements of the narrow streets. As though in tears and veiled, the lamps glimmered through the chill gloom and sucked their reflections slowly from the wet ground. The forgotten years of my youth came back to me. How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter...."
In this excerpt from a literary classic, a man meditates on his own nature and his difficult relationship with society. Maybe you understand his isolation; maybe not. Is alienation universal, or just for the few?
"Affecting lightheartedness, I trod the moist pavements of the narrow streets. As though in tears and veiled, the lamps glimmered through the chill gloom and sucked their reflections slowly from the wet ground. The forgotten years of my youth came back to me. How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter...."
In this excerpt from a literary classic, a man meditates on his own nature and his difficult relationship with society. Maybe you understand his isolation; maybe not. Is alienation universal, or just for the few?
Narrated by Tom Newton.
Narrated by Tom Newton.
"The month was October, the day brilliant. Bareheaded, bald too young but well-bearded, a man not long past his youth strode along Bleecker, his comfortable shoes belying the business-like focus of his venture. His water-flow way of dodging fellow walkers was well-practiced, a city-dweller's skill used even as he hunted."
Three lives intersect for reasons unknown. One has a strange gift: a poet who may be a seer. Does he really know the history and future of the world? Or maybe this is some sort of love story, who knows?
"The month was October, the day brilliant. Bareheaded, bald too young but well-bearded, a man not long past his youth strode along Bleecker, his comfortable shoes belying the business-like focus of his venture. His water-flow way of dodging fellow walkers was well-practiced, a city-dweller's skill used even as he hunted."
Three lives intersect for reasons unknown. One has a strange gift: a poet who may be a seer. Does he really know the history and future of the world? Or maybe this is some sort of love story, who knows?
Narrated by Brent Robison.
Narrated by Brent Robison.
"I saw that Constance had emailed me suggesting we meet. She was embroiled in a mystery and needed my help. She would tell me more in person. We met on a bench in a park. The mystery was complicated. It involved two or more people who appeared to be one..."
A man accompanies his friend to Paris to solve a mystery. But is it really a mystery, or something else? This is a story that challenges the very nature of storytelling—with a smile. Enjoy!
"I saw that Constance had emailed me suggesting we meet. She was embroiled in a mystery and needed my help. She would tell me more in person. We met on a bench in a park. The mystery was complicated. It involved two or more people who appeared to be one..."
A man accompanies his friend to Paris to solve a mystery. But is it really a mystery, or something else? This is a story that challenges the very nature of storytelling—with a smile. Enjoy!
Narrated by Tom Newton.
Narrated by Tom Newton.