My story today is centered around the idea that many people make their permanent homes in places where most people only vacation.
There were never any curtains here. Something about the beach air made people forget that sunlight could be blocked out and that morning would come anyway.
Where do you like to go to get away from it all? Tell me in the comments.
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My story today focuses on the idea that we all have very different childhoods. But what if yours was so unusual, you had to hide it? In The Separated Life of Annie Good, we meet a woman who lies about the abnormality of her upbringing because the lie is easier to explain. Even to her boyfriend:
In her defense, she had spent the first four weeks of their relationship believing it would never work out between them. He was, after all, a calculus major. During their first date he had tried to start conversations with her about social economics and politics before they were able to settle on classic cinema as a mutually satisfying topic. By the time she had realized her miscalculation on his viability as a long-term boyfriend and started believing in his potential, it seemed too late to delve into childhood issues.
Abnormal is the new normal.
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My story today has a happy ending.
A lot of my storytelling podcast posts don’t have a happy ending. I think that is part of the problem with stories — outside of certain genres (romance novels, fairy tales), most stories don’t have a happy ending. In Waking up with Strangers, however, the listener can be assured a happy ending — it may just be the rest of the story that they have a problem with.
Do you like happy endings to stories?
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My story today is about morals…sort of.
In Just, which is a morality tale for the 21st century, the listener gets to choose the fate of the main couple.
But be forewarned before you listen: Just is full of betrayal — for everyone involved. (Also, there is a bit of office talk.)
Each of them will toil away in an office, where they feel productive and small at the same time, where they trade office gossip and find structure to the unwieldy hours of the day. The type of jobs they do does not matter. They are just jobs.
Listen to the story and leave your choice in the comments? Did you get the “right” answer?
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Audio commentary: Just (A Morality Tale)
I was also a huge fan of those choose your own adventure books when I was younger, (seriously, who wasn’t?) even though most of the choices I made caused the death of the protagonist. Oh well.
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