Escape Artists
PodCastle => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Ocicat on July 21, 2021, 10:09:21 PM
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PodCastle 688: Aeaea on the Seas (https://podcastle.org/2021/07/20/podcastle-688-aeaea-on-the-seas/)
Author: Hester J. Rook (https://podcastle.org/people/hester-j-rook/)
Narrator: Danielle Imara (https://podcastle.org/people/danielle-imara/)
Host: Summer Fletcher (https://podcastle.org/people/summer-fletcher/)
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh (https://podcastle.org/people/peter-behravesh/)
Previously published in Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology
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Show Notes
Rated PG-13
“Oh, go to the crows,” I snarled under my breath as the knocker slammed home. The door was supposed to be a discouragement to visitors, large and heavy and dark, the handle made up of a curl of iron shaped like a beautiful maiden with fanged dogs at her thighs, eye tormented. Scylla, in the form I’d turned her into so many years ago: Remember my power. Do not come to me lightly.
But no, there it was again, a rapping that echoed through the old house.
“What’s wrong, flower?” Her voice was strangled down the phone.
“Don’t worry, darling. I just have a visitor.”
She chuckled, low and dry. “I really need to teach you my old trick for dealing with them.”
“You forget, my love. I have my own tricks.”
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Re: Aeaea On The Seas. I'm relieved my spouse and I abandoned all that neuveau Wicca in our 20s. This episode reminds me that witches can be a nasty, nasty breed. Don't piss them off and give them wide berth. :o
She is a tragic character, mind you. She wants another, unavailable creature. I pity her -- from a safe distance. Excellent story, eh.
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I liked the way the transitions were done. It’s curious. Sometimes scene breakers were used to isolate thoughts.
The prose flows smoothly. I think that’s the variation of the size of the sentences.
And yeah, it's very tragical.