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on: July 25, 2017, 07:02:38 AM
PodCastle 480: All Of The Cuddles With None Of The Pain

by J. J. Roth
read by a full cast!

Mother – Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Company spokesperson – Jen Albert
Jenny – Dagny Paul
Pinocchio – Graeme Dunlop
Annie – Setsu Uzume
Corolle – Eleanor Wood
Huggums and Bitty – Marguerite and Al
Matt – Steven Capps
Alex – Matt Dovey

A PodCastle original!
Rated PG

What is a Reborn?
A Reborn is an artist-enhanced baby doll that looks and feels lifelike. Artists create Reborns as one-of-a-kind collectibles, often from ordinary play dolls transformed into art suitable for hands-off display — or hands-on cuddling.
While reasonably durable, Reborns are not children’s toys. Rough play may damage them.


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J. J. Roth lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, two school-aged sons, and two geriatric cats. She parents the kids and cats, practices law at a tech company, and squeezes writing into the interstices. Her work has appeared in Nature, Urban Fantasy Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and a number of small press venues. J. J. is an associate member of the SFWA and a member of the Codex writers’ group. For more information and updates, please visit her web site at www.jjroth.net, follow her on Twitter where she is @wrothroth, or find her on Facebook where she is JJ Roth.

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Reply #1 on: July 25, 2017, 09:49:00 PM
What a wonderful story! I was blubbing everywhere by the end! Bravo!

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Reply #2 on: July 27, 2017, 01:53:50 PM
Heartbreakingly sweet, and sweetly heartbreaking.



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Reply #3 on: July 27, 2017, 03:26:22 PM
This was an interesting story. I liked it more until the parts with baby Matt. Maybe some of my cultural living-dolls-are-creepy prejudice tainted my listening experience.



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Reply #4 on: August 05, 2017, 09:06:24 AM
I'm not sure if this was a story. Not that it matters, I still enjoyed it, but the epistolary style was more a history of the main character and less of a plot. In the outro, when they said it came out of a writing class exercise, that made a lot of sense to me.

The topic of a story had a strong emotional impact on me, also (but not only) for personal reasons.



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Reply #5 on: August 09, 2017, 01:14:15 AM
Thanks, PodCastle. For the second time in the last month, you made me cry in the gym. I had to tell all my meathead friends I was listening to "Beth" so they wouldn't beat me up.



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Reply #6 on: August 10, 2017, 12:42:06 AM
They... they kept each other alive out of love.. ;_; I loved the creative format, it was a good contrast to the deep emotion, which might have seemed excessive if the narrative structure was more conventional. 

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Reply #7 on: August 12, 2017, 05:43:46 AM
This went to a place I was not expecting but I loved it. Love the full cast recording ;)