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.
"The apartment brought her a new sense of calm. She thought of
it as her cocoon. Her husband's death had now moved into her back
brain and settled down."
She is frozen, hurt by deaths of various sorts... until one
becomes the door to a life change. Listen... do you hear the
colors?
"There is no future. This is not pessimism but the
borderland of science, where time is only the present tense."
A man's voice deep in the night... is anybody
listening but you? City streets at dawn... those other humans...
apostasy, enigma. Are you as real as you think you are?