The Strange Recital is an audio anthology of short fiction. It is not genre-specific and delights in perceptions of reality that warp and fold in unexpected ways. The literary works we showcase might be odd, humorous, or surreal.... They might remind you of Borges, Nabokov, Kafka, Pynchon. Or none of the above.
Each podcast episode features one writer and runs about 25 minutes. It includes a story reading – the Recital – a brief musical interlude, and an author interview with a twist – the Post Recital. Subscribe to get a new episode twice a month. It's free.
"Someone had once said that it was the hour when God walked in
the garden. It was at any rate the time when everything begins to
breathe again after the long hot hours in which life is
suspended...."
An eccentric elderly woman hires a younger man to tend her
wild Greek garden. Here's the opening chapter of a...