EP016: Seamstress
Published by SFEley on 25 Aug 2005 at 2:30 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Sarah Prineas.
Read by Deborah Green.
So, the Godmother. She takes ragged, smudged things and turns them into beautiful Princesses. Why, I don’t know. A hobby? A calling? An obsession? Is she righting the wrongs done to her when she was young?
When I first started here, I had a fantasy. That the Godmother would pluck me out of the row of humpbacked, squinting Seamstresses and make me, too, a beautiful Princess. With a gown sewn by…well, by the poor wenches too old or ugly to catch the Godmother’s eye.
Rated PG. Contains sexual situations and, unrelated, the loss of innocence.
Skink Lizard on 25 Aug 2005 at 8:46 am: 1
Steve,
I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while now. I think I found you somewhere around number 8 or 9, though I don’t think that’s important here right now.
Wow.
Listening to your comments at the beginning of each show has brought me to reflect on my own daily existence. It’s almost like I have a mirror on the other side of the planet, or something. Small child, sci-fi junkie, podcast addict, and today’s comments regarding the news really hit home. (my first child Lucy is 11 months old).
It‚Äôs like the rest of the world just disappeared since I discovered podcasting in October last year. I rarely get home in time for the news, and I used to listen to the radio in every conscious moment that wasn‚Äôt spent with other humans, or in front of a computer, but now I have Escape pod, Seanachi, Slashdot review not to mention Dr Karl and many others…
You hit the nail in the head. We need a news podcast, though from my point of view a local Brisbane, Queensland, Australia news podcast seems unlikely. I was just thinking that on my commute home TODAY. Like I said psychic, or something!
Anyhow keep up the good work, I’ve added only three listeners to your podcast by suggestion but I’m working on more.
Then you publish Seamstress, Fantasitc!
Thanks Steve.
Eric Marin on 26 Aug 2005 at 3:51 pm: 2
I really enjoyed this dark twist on a classic fairy tale, and the reading of the story was very well done.
PaulJ on 27 Aug 2005 at 11:16 am: 3
Very oppressive and atmospheric story, with lots of barely hinted subtext and setting. I thought it had a distinctly East European feel about it.
Jackie on 28 Dec 2006 at 1:54 am: 4
I thoroughly enjoy your podcast although i realize it is more than 1 year later on lol. The tone of the sound is captivating I find and like you, I have gradually stopped listening to radios nowadays.
BrandtPileggi on 25 Apr 2007 at 5:14 pm: 5
I agree with the above. This is now on my list of favorite fantasy shorts. And what’s a radio?
scatterbrain on 10 Jun 2008 at 6:17 pm: 6
Great dark story and an evcellent reading.