Scott O'Connor's wonderful short story "Flicker," exquisitely brought to life by David Gautreaux, is introduced in our podcast by the author. Pick up a copy of Scott's story collection, A Perfect Universe, at https://bookshop.org/shop/wordtheatre. Each of these ten stories is beautiful and if you don't yet know Scott O'Connor's work, the time has come!
"Scott O'Connor's beautifully wrought stories are sharp-edged, unflinching, and filled with the kind of precision of language that etches images into the mind. His characters' lives are ingeniously connected by a '70s cult sci-fi film, but what really binds them is the often heartbreaking and always surprising ways they attempt to find purchase in the world they inhabit, one which can feel as out of reach and inscrutable as the farthest star.
--Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing and Mary Coin