'Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly'.
Music: Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (performed by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

'Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly'. Music: Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (performed by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

#45: 'Fear' by Lydia Davis

Short stories, with music and sound effects.

"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

Fiction

Short stories, with music and sound effects. "There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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#45: 'Fear' by Lydia Davis

#45: 'Fear' by Lydia Davis