Bedtime Stories for Nobody: Recent Episodes

Kai Stewart

Hush.

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A story about how we see ourselves, and eachother, assuming that we are a patch of ocean or a different patch of ocean or one of many creatures living in what used to be a whale.

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I'm always happy to see her.

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A nighttime transmission from the lonely highway.

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A story about people and things talking to each other in hallways. Inspired by Bill Irwin's "On Beckett."

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An incomplete list.

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  1. like a dime between subway rails

  2. like time lost

  3. like a knife in the skin

  4. like a seedling out of a seed

  5. like truth

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None of this, as far as I know, is true.

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Please take any of this that helps you, and ignore the rest.

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Don't worry about it, they're going to be rad

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A small story about looking at things from different perspectives, in the closing days of one's time aboard the International Space Station.

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The result of an experiment. 45 of these words were written by Sydney Vogl.

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Three short portraits of people I sort of know.

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Written for 826 Valencia's Donuts and Dialogues series, on the theme of "a brighter tomorrow."

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An incomplete list.

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A story about internal and external spaces.

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Four places that might be nice to visit.

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A story about here, and there, and ways things might break, and the things we might believe.

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A collaboration with the neural network Talk To Transformer by Adam King.

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It is a place I'm glad to know.

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Feeling good, rust riders, cyber jockeys.

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Excerpts from a a guided tour

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Gardens of many sizes and qualities.

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This one's kind of spooky, but has a lot of commentary from the Guffin.

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Some thoughts, several of them about birds and the sun.

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Some time spent thinking about flight.

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What sedimentary rock does on its days off.

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Selections from Werner's Nomenclature of Colors

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A story about some people spending time together.

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I liked Myst.

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Oh my gosh, you're so excited!

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A portrait.

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A description of delights, a creamy compendium.

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For the curious and the uncomprehending

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A story about public transit, and public transit riders.

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This is the result of an experiment where every night for a month I wrote three sentences about that night's teeth-brushing.

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A full-cast recording of Let The Lillies Consider, a Quiet, Please story originally recorded in 1948.  

The cast:

James and Announcer - Kai Stewart

Policeman - Erik Ostrom

Gretchen - Kate Schmidt

Lillies - Shea Roberts, Jeff Gyllen, Marina Yoder, Colleen Riley, Miranda Hoeferson

Quiet, Please was written and originally directed by Wyllis Cooper.  Learn more about Quiet, Please at http://www.quietplease.org/, or listen at https://archive.org/details/Quiet_Please/

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A story about the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.

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It's only the stranger again, drifting through town.

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Three stories, or four stories, or one story, or more than that.

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Abridged.

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Instead of one small story, four very small stories.  Some of the windows are metaphorical.

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Not a survey of relative anatomy, but maybe a case study.

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Attract songbirds to your home with clean water and fresh fruit.

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Like so many things called mermaids, it wasn't one.

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This one is kind of sad, and if you listen to these before going to sleep, and you don't like thinking about sad things right before you go to sleep, consider listening to this one at a different time.  In memory of those lost in the Ghostship fire.

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Inspired by times when people are whispering all at once.

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From a conversation with J. Perez

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A story about you.

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A story about some time you spent in a boat.

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A story about how we began.

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It is possible to be no one, here in the desert.

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A list that might be helpful.

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Is it the same for you?

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A story about load-bearing negative space.

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This is a true story, pretty much.

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In which I read a story I didn't write.

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A story about being inside.

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A story about things that are either here or there.

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A true story for Halloween.