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Title: PC724: The Cinnamon Thread
Post by: Ocicat on March 02, 2022, 06:33:29 PM
PodCastle 724: The Cinnamon Thread (https://podcastle.org/2022/03/01/podcastle-724-the-cinnamon-thread/)

Author: Beth Goder (https://podcastle.org/people/beth-goder/)
Narrator: Dani Daly (https://podcastle.org/people/dani-daly/)
Host: Matt Dovey (https://podcastle.org/people/matt-dovey/)
Audio Producer: Peter Adrian Behravesh (https://podcastle.org/people/peter-adrian-behravesh/)

PodCastle 724: The Cinnamon Thread is a PodCastle original.

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Show Notes
Rated PG



Anna is grateful to lie on the bed in the cool house where there are no expectations, no labyrinthine thoughts to swallow her in the night. Outside, the wrens muck about in shallow water. Waves rush up against the sand. Dusk seeps in through windows thick with salt lines.

She sleeps, dreamless, hearing the ocean trembling against the shore.

In the morning, searchers glide by, crowding through the hallway, meshing into each other and apart again.

One stops to examine her room, a man with a trim beard and thick glasses.

“Which room are you looking for?” he asks.

“I came here last night,” she says.

“Do you know how the house works?”

Anna shrugs. The night before, she came upon a tangle of threads in the entrance and followed the one that smelled like cinnamon, the scent like a tangible fragment of her childhood, the kitchen with the cracked red phone, her mother’s famous cinnamon cookies. The thread led her to this room, where she slept, pulled into quiet unconsciousness, pulled back by footsteps in the hall. The skein of thread is now in her satchel, wound tight, along with a pair of scraggly mittens and a kitchen device that is only good for coring apples, this detritus of her life that she isn’t even sure how she acquired.

“You’ll want to have a strategy.” He points to a beige door. “You could try by color or by size. You could try every door until you get tired.” He pulls a hair out of his short beard. “Yesterday, I hiked all day and tried the last door only.”

“What did you find?”




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