The Strange Recital

The Strange Recital

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The Strange Recital episodes

  • Barney Rudolph

    "Barney Rudolph was a solitary man. This is what he silently said in his private story of self. Alienated, a loner, lone wolf, outsider. Always an outsider."

      Can a movie be made that is not a movie? Can a man be not a man? Maybe each of us is just something happening in a sea of happenings
    20 min
  • A Metaphorical Life

    "At fifty-five years of age he found himself on the shelf. It was an actual shelf in a warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront...."

      A clever solution to the commuting problem, or something else? Can a real life be lived backstage, where castoffs from the illusion factory huddle in limbo?
    40 min
  • The Book of the Grotesque
    "In the bed the writer had a dream that was not a dream. As he grew somewhat sleepy but was still conscious, figures began to appear before his eyes. He imagined the young indescribable thing within himself was driving a long procession of figures before his eyes."   What happens to you when you take a truth to be your own? Can you be saved by the young thing inside you?
    15 min
  • Lydia de Quincey
    "I began to feel very ill at ease. At first I thought it was simply the closeness of the room.... But then I felt a strange creeping within my clothes and understood that all the hairs on my back were standing up."   Have you ever felt the presence of evil? Is your intuition trustworthy? What exactly is evil, anyway?
    19 min
  • The Hole

    "I placed my hand in the shoe, and stuck my finger through the hole. But it didn’t emerge from the shoe.... After six tries, I realized the problem: my forefinger had entered another dimension."

      If a humble piece of footwear is a portal to an alien universe, the world must be full of mystery and wonder! Or am I just crazy?
    34 min
  • Ferret Love

    "It was last spring, early, when I fell in love with the ferret woman. The first beautiful day, exquisite whirlybird of a sunny blue day, and I’m in the park, lying on the lawn."

      Where does obsession come from? Why do people have pet ferrets? And shouldn't somebody warn the boyfriend?
    23 min
  • Antifoni

    "Stuva Grundlig stood on a bluff overlooking the sea. This was a sign, this winking moon. Tomorrow they would go."

    The need for quality may call for heroic measures. What would you do if your home couldn't weather the rain?

    17 min
  • Atlantic City

    "The interior of the Goldmine Casino was a realm all its own, row after row of slot machines bracing the floor, a steady current of beeps and buzzes, flashing lights...."

      Some realities seem entirely unreal... whatever that means. And some of us like to flirt with disaster, driven by glittery dreams. Do you?
    22 min
  • The Equalizer

    "Following a Newtonian law of incarceration, the court officer clamped the cuffs on him with a force equal to his show of resistance...."

    Two men meet in a jail cell... circumstance juxtaposed. What exactly is this thing called "chance" that separates one person's fate from another?

    21 min
  • Wild Roses

    "On the border between Millbrook and Pleasant Valley, just off Route 44, there’s a little patch of woods where my boyfriend hanged himself."

    A visitor from the other side... real or hallucination? Should you heed their message? Yes or no, it's already written in the script.

    23 min

About The Strange Recital

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The Strange Recital is an audio forum for short fiction. We delight in perceptions of reality that twist and fold in unexpected ways.