Steve Reads: Recent Episodes
Steve(n) Marra
A place for me to put audio projects not related to my work on Game Mastery (anchor.fm/game-mastery), Roleplay Geeks (roleplaygeeks.buzzsprout.com), or whatever other podcast project I've got cooking and taking up space on my computer...
Spilt milk and horses.
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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A short aside about peacocks and sunburn.
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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What does it mean if everyone in your family is irritating?
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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Enter a question about the saxophone, and Shannon.
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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Boy bands and astronauts.
And Slimfast.
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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The web of who knows what about whom and how gets stickier.
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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O.k, o.k... help me out here.
Did anyone else hear that and go 'Kittens?'
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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Now we start to get an age idea for our note writer and her peers!
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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What happens when you find a stack of hidden notes in a forgotten Mensa-approved board game at your local thrift store? You read the pages, in time with your listeners, one page at a time. No reading ahead! No reordering of pages! Just straight through reading, as we wonder where the words will take us.
Welcome to Notes!
Someone's Story is a project where I read some kind of found written work. These pieces are often out of context in time and place. I want to keep the memories they tried to capture, alive.
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Welcome to the first in what I hope to be an ongoing series of found text readings.
The first time I realized the fear of being forgotten was in high school. What sparked it? The poem Ozymandias (Percy Shelley's version). I was so taken aback by the thought of being meaningless, by the realization that I would be forgotten, that the pang of sadness from that day has been with me for over 30 years.
And why did I decide to get an English degree, if words were so cruel?
Why, indeed...
Percy Shelley's OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Attribution:
The transition music is taken from the work Funky Vibes, by Kabbalistic Village.
kabbalisticvillage.com/
I am thankful he shared music I could use for my transitions.
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Just a memory I wrote down as homework for the as-of-yet-unreleased Beautiful Malcontents project with Jen and Tracy.
I'll be docking more pieces/homework here as time goes on.
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Recorded on my old Turtle Beach gaming headset at the PC in the basement, on a whim, more for someone else than for me.
Post-rpg testing session with the guys for Roleplay Geeks.
I just needed to reflect for a little bit.
For more information about Charcot Marie Tooth, check out www.cmtausa.org/understanding-cmt/what-is-cmt/
(Oh, another side note, after listening to this... I know I said I didn't resort to medicating like others might. That's not a criticism. I should have done something, but, like a lot of people, I endure and suffer when I should just give in and make the pain go away. It's a crazy, crazy thing. And I in no way wanted anyone to think I was on a high horse bragging about putting up with it. Not - the - case.)
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Considering Pandemic Time, I thought this was an appropriate read.
(This was the 1st reading I did in October of 2020 for this project. It took me a bit to get it published. I might do more like this in 2021.)
And, of course, I found a glitch at the end. Somewhere in the edits to the final version, the ending got a pesky digital artifact that I couldn't take out. I had already changed my recording setup when I found it, so that tiny, 8 second section sounds different than everything else. Most of you won't notice, but I wanted those who would to know that I know [laughs].
Music is via YouTube's royalty free selection.
Addendum 09/11/21
Looking back on this. Happy with it, but I've learned a lot the past year. I think I'll choose another Poe story to do for this Halloween =)
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Thus ends the origin story of Amanita Falstaff.
Keep watch for more adventures from our unlikely heroes.
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We switch gears to a two-part origin story for our next character in this adventure.
Originally written and recorded for Christmas.
Kira made an interesting observation. As a kid on the spectrum, she liked that I didn't write a speaking part for Anita. She said the focus on environmental sounds and descriptions made her feel like it was more appropriate for a character I wrote with her in mind.
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The next episode in our journey of the grrl who would be a one-person Gnomish Fire Department.
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The beginning of a sometimes project for me and my daughters.
This story began as an intro to an episode of Roleplay Geeks. I transferred it here as its own project.
Suitable for kids, if you don't mind a reference to The Nine Hells.
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