For Ten Thousand Years [Short Story]

2016-04-21

On tonight's podcast, I'll be looking at For Ten Thousand Years, the fourth piece I wrote in January as a part of my Year of Stories project. When I'm recording this, it's somewhere near the end of April, and I've managed to gain a bit of perspective on some of the patterns that have developed in my writing since I began this project. One of them started here, the Thursday "letter." When you write like I do, between late and very late at night, you sometimes find yourself grasping at narrative threads. You want them strong enough to ...

On tonight's podcast, I'll be looking at For Ten Thousand Years, the fourth piece I wrote in January as a part of my Year of Stories project.

When I'm recording this, it's somewhere near the end of April, and I've managed to gain a bit of perspective on some of the patterns that have developed in my writing since I began this project. One of them started here, the Thursday "letter."

When you write like I do, between late and very late at night, you sometimes find yourself grasping at narrative threads. You want them strong enough to hold a story together, but not so long that you find daybreak on the other side.

Letters, especially late in the week -- when the Muse decides to toddle off on vacation -- can really help. They carry less narrative baggage than many other formats, but still have enough room in them to provide some emotional heft.

For Ten Thousand Years is a letter, and the emotional heft comes from three of my favorite places: dark magic, delightfully strange hand's behind the curtain, and vivid descriptions of deeply unpleasent things.

It was also a fun read, how often do you get to talk about jars of human fear?

I hope you enjoy.

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Additional Sounds by: Mike Koenig

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