With the advent of Covid-19 and Zoom meetings, we have moved to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCduH-jv0Pmy4GaXyj1l0eyA!

We've also updated the name of the podcast. We are now Do the Wrong Thing! Please update your subscription there. Identical material but with video!

In The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer, as Marlowe describes his college years, we see an inverse relationship between his considerable powers of observation and his, er, social skills.

In Do the Wrong Thing, after Ava declares that she wouldn't go out with Greg if he was the last man on earth, she does.

In fairy tale, The Pine Princess, a Hunter agrees to confront Lord Beaver and get water for a pine tree.

Story Listing: 

00:00 Matthew Willis - The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer - psychological thriller novel excerpt - matthewwillis at l i v e dot c a

09:34 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

14:41 Brian Hogan - The Pine Princess - fantasy novelette excerpt - kingbour121 at h o t m a i l dot c a

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In Do the Wrong Thing, Ava is convinced that Ben, the most beautiful man in the world, will never talk to her.

In sci-fi short, "Baby Shower," MC tries to extort money from a drug dealer, believing that his Polaroid camera, that sends pictures from the future, would never lie. 

Story Listing: 

00:00 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

Mario Da Silva - "Baby Shower" - sci-fi short story.

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In The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer, Marlowe describes his family, his dead-end job as a literary assistant and how he found himself crying in an office bathroom, determined to escape.

In Do the Wrong Thing, Malcolm revisits an earlier section in preparation for an upcoming reading. Ava turns sixteen, is allowed to wear high heels and drive. 

Story Listing: 

00:00 Matthew Willis - The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer - psychological thriller novel excerpt - matthewwillis at l i v e dot c a

08:39 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In Do the Wrong Thing, Jonny takes Ava out for dinner—to a soup kitchen—then invites her to beg with him.

 

In The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer, Marlowe has a dream about being in an antiseptic library looking for a book that never appears where it should. Finally, a small green tome with no call numbers appears.

Mourad reads a potential ending for his memoir, Key to Paradise. It’s his birthday and he goes for a long run, as he does every year. He meets a homeless man who asks him for advice.

Story Listing:

 

00:00 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

05:21 Matthew Willis - The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer - psychological thriller novel excerpt - matthewwillis at l i v e dot c a

11:42 Mourad Nachach - Key to Paradise - memoir excerpt. 

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In Do the Wrong Thing, Ava is accosted by a drunk when she goes to get a beer at Knird & Doof. *Malcolm's third reworking of this scene.

Story Listing: 00:00 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In Do the Wrong Thing, Malcolm revisits part of the piece she read last week, where Ava is accosted by a drunk at Knird & Doof.

In The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer, Marlowe takes issue with a newspaper report written about his pseudocide. In the process, we learn more about him, including that there may be more of the criminal in him than at first appeared.

Story Listing: 

00:00 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

02:24 Matthew Willis - The Second Undoing of Marlowe Pourer - psychological thriller novel excerpt - matthewwillis at l i v e dot c a

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In Without Repentance, we learn many new things about Gillian, Jason and the brave new world they are living in. Procreation and colonizing new planets are not what we assumed them to be.

 

In Do the Wrong Thing, 1980's Ava meets two young men while modern day Ava shops for dusting tools.

Story Listing: 

00:00 Heather Bowden - Without Repentance - dystopian novel excerpt -  heatherabowden at g m a i l dot c o m

06:21 Malcolm van Delst - Do the Wrong Thing - character driven, narrative novel excerpt - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In comedic memoir, Danarchy, a group of punks stage a die-in at a fur store before launching a small, olive-coloured TV off a highway overpass. 

Note: Malcolm showed video trailers for the upcoming second book of her Do the Wrong Thing series this week instead of reading. She'll be back next week or the one following.

Story Listing: 

00:00 Cali Haan - Danarchy - memoir excerpt - http://calihaan.wixsite.com/calihaan.

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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In blog post, "Creating 2020, Yak-Shaving Edition" Malcolm outlines her plans for the upcoming year and describes some of the difficulties she foresees. 

Story Listing: 00:00 Malcolm van Delst - "Creating 2020, Yak-Shaving Edition" - blog post - http://malcolmvandelst.com. 

Works in progress. Copyright remains with the authors.

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