One of the best things about audio fiction is that you can listen to it while the rest of you is busy with other things, like folding laundry, going for a run, making your morning commute, or staving off the oppressive silence of a sepulchral office building during the weekend, what have you. May I suggest:


An Owomoyela's "The Year of the Rabbit" at Drabblecast


and


Ben Burgis's "Still Small Voice" at PodCastle


Funny story about the latter: I helped crit Ben's story when we were both in Seoul, and here it is read by my fellow 2011 Clarion West classmate, Dafydd Rees-Thomas whose name I will never ever spell any other way and I'm not even sorry. Everyone who I mention in this blog post is part of the Clarion West tribe, and that wasn't even intentional. Our world is ever shrinking, and I have to say, I really don't mind.


On a more or less unrelated note, my friend Gord (also, incidentally, of the Seoul crit group) has just introduced me to 잠비나이 / Jambinayi, a Korean rock group of awesome. Check out that brutal geomungo action, a traditional instrument heard most often playing stately court music. From around 3:44 you can hear the plaintive notes of a haegeum, which has a special place in my heart after the twelve weeks I spent torturing a rental and convincing my neighbors that I spent my free time strangling chickens in my officetel (I have since settled for humming nasally).





Cheers,