Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” “Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.” The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde

"All external        marks of abuse are present on this        defiant edifice—" The Fish, Marianne Moore Content Warning:  Infrequent Sex References

"Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height... and send it so-ar-ing, Up! through the atmosphere, Up where the air is clear" Mary Poppins Content Warning: Strong language, sex references, threat

A Radio Play. Content Warning: Strong Language, Menace

GEORGE GALLOWAY: You're not my judge, you're not fit to be my judge... JO COBURN: Well thank you very much... BBC, 2016 Content Warning: Brief violence references, humour of a religious nature which some may find offensive

"...we’re just monkeys… living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other. I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn." Mark Mossbacher, The White Lotus Content Warning: Strong Sex References, Crude Humour, and Strong Cancer References

Part II Music: People Are Strange, The Doors, Jim Morrison, 1967

A novella, released in two parts "Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?" George Herbert

"That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes..." For Sidney Bechet, Phillip Larkin Content Warning: Threat, Violence References

"We hold in memory his blessed passion, his resurrection from the dead and his glorious ascension into heaven. And from your gifts bestowed on us we offer to your glory and majesty the pure victim, the holy victim, the perfect victim: the holy bread of eternal life and the chalice of everlasting salvation." From Eucharistic Prayer I, The Roman Canon Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes

First Clown Who is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. Act V, Scene I, Hamlet, Shakespeare Content Warning: Some Adult Content, Sex References

"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow..." The Snowman, Wallace Stevens

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.   In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish. M...

"How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say, "I will be sorry for their childishness."" Toys, Coventry Patmore Content Warning: Infrequent Explicit Language and Scenes of an Adult Nature

"Ch-ch-ch-changes, face the changes [...] Time may change me, but I can't change time" David Bowie N.B. I am proud to say that absolutely no content warning is necessary in the case of this, my first published story. I must apologise for some odd background noise, produced from a neighbouring room in the Exeter University apartment I take up my residence within...however, on listeni...

"All we hear is radio ga ga Radio blah blah Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves you" Queen Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes and Infrequent Uses of Language N.B. Apologies for quality this week. This is more of a bonus pre-release than the main item of the week. I don't have access to studio silence but wanted to release something as it's been a week since the l...

"Thou hast not youth nor age- but as it were- an afterdinner's sleep, dreaming on both" Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Sex References, References to the Occult 

"The old order changeth, yielding place to new" from Morte d'Arthur, Alfred Lord Tennyson  Content Warning: Tongue-in-cheek, satirical humour relating to  class. Contains, also, references to conspiracy theories, and disturbing scenes. 

A Poem by Charlie Price

"Lean on me when you're not strong And I'll be you're friend..." Bill Withers Content Warning: Strong Language and References to Sexual Violence N.B. Author and reader are in different locations during academic term time...due to limited contact between us, a very small number of errors have crept into the spoken text. Apologies.

Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope, to thee, most gracious advocate, do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping from this vale of tears... Salve Regina Content Warning: Contains Strong Language (including Homophobic Language) and Risqué Humour of a Religious Nature 

"...of ample power to chasten and subdue..." from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey  by William Wordsworth Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Scenes of Emotional Distress

"So take a look at me now Oh, there's just an empty space And there's nothin' left here to remind me Just the memory of your face Ooh, take a look at me now" Phil Collins Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes

"She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she's always a woman to me" Billy Joel Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language, Moderate Sex Refrences 

Bonus Episode: This is not an original story but a one man performance of a beautiful radioplay for words and music by Samuel Beckett (1961). Words are by Samuel Beckett with original music by Charlie Price. Performed and edited by Charlie Price Clarinet played by Charlie Price  EPISODE CONTENT: Cascando, a play for words and music by Samuel Beckett: (C) Beckett Estate Arthur Honegger Clarinet Son...