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The Strange Recital

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.

Aug 18, 2019

"Around 10 a.m. my journalist friend Paul called and asked me to meet him at the mortuary in Woodstock, and to be prepared to view a corpse. He wouldn’t say more."

 
The intertwining of past and present, a recurring pattern of dates... what is coincidence and what is synchronicity? Has an old threat returned?


Aug 4, 2019

"On the fateful day he got up, threw away his remaining shoes, the ones he hadn’t eaten—just two pairs, chewed the last strip of leather he had been saving for that day, followed by a slice of toast, and then went to work."

 
Why would Luis Moreno eat his shoes? Because he'd been planning to for twenty years, of...