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Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on June 12, 2017, 11:25:49 AM
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Episode 252: The Forty Gardens of Calliope Grey by Aimee Ogden (http://www.castofwonders.org/2017/06/episode-252-the-forty-gardens-of-calliope-grey-by-aimee-ogden/)
• Narrated by Dani Daly
• Audio production by Jeremy Carter
• A Cast of Wonders original!
• Read along with the text of the story. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XZTstDfYPp27ftnR1ALmJqPumEejFucW5kJ4Rb9Xps/edit?usp=sharing)
• Click here to listen to Episode 252 (http://archive.org/download/Wonders252/Wonders252.mp3)
Aimee Ogden (http://escape-artists.wikia.com/wiki/Aimee_Ogden) is a reader, writer, and–of course–gardener who lives with her husband and three-year-old twins in the states of both Wisconsin and chaos. Her work has appeared in Shimmer, Daily Science Fiction, and Persistent Visions. You can follow her online (https://aimeeogdenwrites.wordpress.com/) and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Aimee_Ogden).
Dani Daly (http://escape-artists.wikia.com/wiki/Dani_Daly) is one of the assistant editors of Cast of Wonders, and narrating is just one of the things she loves to do. She’s a retired roller derby player and current hobbyist soap maker, for instance. She rants on Twitter (https://twitter.com/danooli_dani), if that’s your thing. Or you can visit her on the EA forums. She loves it there. (here (http://forum.escapeartists.net/)? ;D )
In her fourth-floor apartment on Wrightwood Avenue, Calliope Grey kept forty gardens of varying size and composition. She had gardens in drawers, in old hat-boxes and mixing bowls. In the drawer that pulled out from beneath her stove, she had a desert garden of cactuses and sagebrush; in the plastic freezer box that was meant to store ice cubes, she grew bearberries and arctic moss.
Tags: acceptance, Aimee Ogden, Cast of Wonders, choice, Dani Daly, gardens, growth, Jeremy Carter, letting go, nurture, plants, sharing, solitude, theft, Young Adult fiction
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I'm a bit late posting but I really enjoyed this one. I just loved the idea of the miniature gardens all over the house. I wonder if I can convince my husband to let me plant some succulents in the pantry now...