Conceit: Words

When you are at a loss for words, very little gets done.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger


Another conceit: Just me, a Diva Echo, and my bowed psaltery
Words
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Rothko Red

At long last this blog will be springing into action! You can thank Garage Band for simplifying the process. I'm still a novice, but I'm not doing anything more complicated than recording my voice into the built-in mic in my MacBook (and trying to squelch some of the ambient noise).

So my first podcast reading is "Rothko Red", a flash fiction piece about a woman who's trying to find solace among the Rothko paintings at the Tate Modern. It's under submission, so fingers crossed. Such short pieces seem ideal for recording here, so you will be seeing more of them. Let me know how you like it (technically as well as aesthetically).

[To play the file, you may wish to download iTunes, which is free]

Running time 3:18