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A charming flash fiction from certainwaters; all the various voices performed by Russil Tamsen. Original text here.
It sounds like a medieval Persian fairy tale with a bit of Doctor Who stirred in (minus the time travel). The gal at the center of it all is like Merida from Pixar's Brave, except she escapes not into the forest but into a bizarre solitary sickness...
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A Public Resource is a short story-monologue written by Erika (processproduct), narrated by Russil Tamsen. 11 mins. Original text here.
Erika asked me to read this darkly humorous piece of hers (which was featured on Tumblr awhile ago) about a naive webcam girl who remains flippant even as she is literally starving. The stranded gal entertains herself without food in her city basement during the chaotic aftermath of a blizzard. Love ya, Erika!
All rights reserved. Russil Tamsen: narrator, comic improv actor, book editor, and author of 21 ebooks. Please visit my ebookstore at QuirkEbooks.com and follow audiobooknarrator. Know a piece of Tumblr fiction that deserves a great reader? Run it by me!
At the writers conference, famed novelist Tom Robbins had us do a writing exercise.
1. Write down your favorite word... (Then we all read out our favorite words. Mine was Australopithecus. Say what?)
2. Write a first sentence of a story/novel/whatever, using that word... (Oh, if had known that's where he was heading!... So we read out our sentences. I had the class laughing.)
3. Write a second sentence that connects to that first one and opens up the potential of the story. (We all read our completed sentence pair.) Here's what I came up with:
"Most early hominids sported shaggy manes, but none had a more luxurious, enviable head of hair than Bob the Australopithecus. His sweaty female, Boo, however showed little interest in his chevelure and seemed far more jazzed by the rugged Javamen who had been beaching their sea canoes that morning." I didn't get a chance to explain away the time travel aspect... ;-)