Showing posts with label Orwellian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orwellian. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 October 2025

78 G

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vssuqGyaxrw&t=37s

Narration by the author -Kate A Hardy 

Soundscape by MarkLockett


After listening to a particularly worrying podcast about the declining rates of literature world-wide, notably the reading for pleasure element, due in large part to smart phones,  I remembered my short story Orwellian look at a possible near future, which at the time of writing had a strong element of tongue-in-cheek. But with increasingly dark events in the USA, well . . . it suddenly seemed oddly plausible, maybe not the half man/half vehicle character, but who's to say . . .


  



Monday, 3 March 2025

Autumn Apples and Messiaen


Before Mark and I start on our second audiobook - probably Smithi - the follow up to Londonia, or The Panto Horse End - we decided to limber up with a couple of short stories.  

© Kate A Hardy 2025

Autumn apples and Messiaen. A story inspired by a childhood memory that I often recall when breathing in the scent of stored apples.

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Patricia, the main character