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Ep10 The Cat, The Desert and Lucky .003 by Kassandra Kelly
By admin | May 12, 2008
PG-13 – not for young children!
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Ms Kelly received my MFA from Pacific University in 2006, and since leaving school, she has taught composition and fiction writing at Pacific. She has a short story appearing this summer in The Rose & Thorn. She was a finalist in a Glimmer Train short story contest in 2006, and in 2007 she won an artist residency at Caldera. In 1998 she was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook in Washington state, and in 1999, her short story “Scorched” was selected by Stephen King for his On Writing contest.
After the cat died, time began to creep up on me.
One day I set out to water and prune the tomato plants, and the next thing I knew I’d spent most of the day going through old clothes, shaking out the wrinkles and remembering when I last wore this dress, that blouse.
In the trunk I also found a notebook. I don’t know how it got there, maybe scooped up in my last frenzy of packing. We are taught never to write anything down, not even directions or lists. I’ve obeyed this rule so well that I had to teach myself to hold a pen.
You see, that was one way the cat helped. I wouldn’t have lasted a month out here without her, in the beginning.
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May 21st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Very well done .Great job to all. Jack
June 19th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Decent. A bit hard to follow. I’d say in some places a longer pause in the reading would have allowed for the scene changes to be recognized. I understand the time travel ones, but there was a few that were not and it took me a bit to realize. Time travel is almost always hard to follow as it is, so taking extra care in the presentation eases the pain a bit to the listener. Otherwise a fine reading.
The twist? Eh… the twist didn’t do anything for me. Like was said in the intro, the parts about how time travel affected her mentally was the interesting bits. The actual plot didn’t do much for me.
I enjoyed the listen though.
August 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It was good, but a bit hard to follow. Still lots better than pod castle’s dreck.
I guess I’m a bit confused, I wasn’t sure if Clone Pod was a site for young adult stories, but I could have sworn this story had all kinds of stuff in it that’d not be in a story for younger minds. Not that it’s a problem. I was happy to hear it wasn’t a children’s story. I like a little sex and violence in my sci fi.
Keep up the good work!
February 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
The theme of a person becoming isolated from others due to their ability to change the past has been done before… in the short novel The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold, the protagonist ends up forming his entire social life from copies of himself, and in Alfred Bester’s short story The Men Who Murdered Mohammed, the protagonist finds himself gradually turning into a ghost who can no longer interact with solid matter.