Translating Arcadia

Content warning: implied disordered eating. She stood at the edge, her toes just so, not crossing, not touching, and tried to find her own shape, in the haze. Her own reflection, gone soft and pink in the fogged mirror of Elsewhere. ** This episode was read by Mel. She can be found here . ** Translating Arcadia is written, directed, & edited by Lee Seguinte. ** Website Twitter Law of Names Med...

Content warnings: Child murder, racism The only reason nothing had happened to Sophia that night was because she had the mumps. That’s what Mama and Yaya said, in the weeks after, whispering over their teacups, heads together at the tiny table in the tiny apartment kitchen. “Efharisto to Theo yia parotítida.” Yaya murmured, and Mama added “Who would have thought?” They were wrong. Sophia knew, but...

Kee was invisible, before he fell in love with the Sun. He always had been. Invisible, intangible. Moving through the world, through the crowds of people wearing their bright skins like costumes, always half somewhere else. Unreal. Always trying to hear, his head cocked, ears open. Trying to find the thing that might fill the emptiness inside him. The part that was missing. The part that the other...

Content Warnings: Parental neglect, emotional abuse, implied self-injury Maybe you could have belonged once, you who were exiled. You, who were left in place of the one they really wanted. Maybe you could have learned a better way to shut your eyes, stop your ears with your hands. Place words around experience without wincing where they gapped. Maybe you could have learned to be blind. But that’s...

Content warnings: Drugging, murder, cannibalism ** Will hated the food at Wok n Roll. The place was a hole in the wall--peeling diamond-patterned linoleum, yellowing striped wallpaper, three Chinese calendar scrolls 10 years out of date. If there were any justice in the world, the food would have been fantastic. A hidden gem of authentic cuisine, masked by disregard and a strip mall storefront. Th...

Content warnings: Disassociation ** You wake up barefoot in the vacant lot on 14th street, in a circle of drowned-skin toadstools and the glittering brown fragments of shattered beer bottles. Your nightgown wraps around your ankles. The wind trickles down the back of your neck. You don’t remember how you got here. ** This episode was read by Christina. She can be found here on Twitter. ** Translat...

Content warnings: Murder, coercion, implied pedophilia, implied sexual assault ** Finn had left the body of the boy in their bed. Petyr, grimacing at the waste, unwound the Egyptian linen sheets from the boy’s rapidly stiffening form where he lay tangled, and, draping the corpse in a 1000 thread count shroud, hoisted it onto his shoulder. The message was clear enough. Finn, though less fastidious...

Content warnings: Implied self-injury, implied grooming ** I’ve never liked the taste of “I’m sorry.” Never liked it either on my own lips, crossing my tongue on insect legs, wriggling its way between my teeth. Never liked it taken from another’s mouth, like sugar surrounding a bitter dose of medicine--good for you, but unpleasant going down. Other words--taken, or given, or shared-- are more plea...

Content warnings: Emotional/verbal relationship abuse ** The world was on fire, and Anjelica hadn’t slept in three days. She floated in the smell of smoke. It dripped through her hair, carried on the Santa Anas, soaked into her pores, trickled in under her closed eyelids, till she was sure she could see it writhe against the red darkness. ** This episode was read by Rebecca. She can be found here...

Content warnings: Sexual assault ** She expects the wind off the desert to be hot, to parch her lips, bring up the sweat, then dry it to salt. But as she pulls over the foothills, and the first breaths blow in through the car’s open windows, it chills her with sudden, isolating cold. The cold is dry. So dry her body aches for water to slake a thirst she didn’t know she had. ** This episode was rea...

Content warnings: Implied child suicide ** Alivia’s imaginary friends took her away the day after her twelfth birthday. ** This episode was read by Emily. They can be found here . ** Translating Arcadia is written, directed, & edited by Lee Seguinte. ** Website Twitter Law of Names Media

A collection of stories, read by a collection of voices. The first episode will air on March 20, 2022. Translating Arcadia is written, directed, & edited by Lee Seguinte. More information about the stories and their performers can be found on our website . Translating Arcadia is a production of Law of Names Media.