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Not broadcast, experimental fiction. I am not sure if this belongs on public radio at all. You tell me. I have found my voice heading in this direction, short fictional audio, and I find that this sounds very un-PR. I'd love to get this aired, but realistically... who could play something like this? What show exists? For more information and conversation, visit this feature on Transom.org.
I woke up from a nap one day having had a major nightmare; that doesn't usually happen but as I lay there, groggy, I thought, "hey, that'd be a great story!" and I jumped up and wrote it. Having said that, as is usual when recounting a dream, the more I wrote the less sense my dream made. What finished off was pretty good, made better by a friend who listened to it for me, and said right in the middle his cat jumped off the couch behind him and he whirled around in a panic. Nice.
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Review of The BookWhat an amazing and mesmerizing story. I couldn't stop listening. It started innocuously but with every sentence became more and more suspenseful. Great ending where not much is revealed, and there are no drastic gruesome details but still one’s hair stands up. |
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Review of The BookSometimes a single voice is enough to create a rich soundscape. A good writer knows how to use certain words over others in telling us a story. Notice how Hans creates tension in the piece as the story builds to a crescendo. The piece does not have a single SFX, but I bet you'll recall that you've heard all the creaks, squeaks, footsteps, echoes and telehone rings. My favorite line in the story "'Help Me' was back by supper". If building tension wasn't enough, Hans ends the story with a bang... or so I thought I heard. |
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Posted on December 07, 2005 at 09:56 AM | Permalink
Review of The Book
This piece appears in an episode #3, Ghost Stories, of the show "Love and Radio". It is by far the best thing about that episode. I listen to radio shows at work all day, and this is the first thing in a few days that has caused me to stop working and just listen.
More specifically, "The Book" is a little like a House of Leaves acid flashback: vastly shorter, and only tangentially related, it has a lot of the same tension, and a similar structure.