Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hoarding Colored Rags
Published by Rachel on 2 Dec 2008 at 10:00 pm.
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Filed under Flash, Podcasts, Rated PG.
by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). Read by Mike Swirsky.
I remember your touch, your taste, the way your mouth curled slightly when you said my name.
Rated PG.
9 Comments to ‘Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hoarding Colored Rags’:
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phignewton on 3 Dec 2008 at 7:11 pm: 1
in interesting, despite its long history i feel like ‘cache’ is a word like ‘meh’ or ‘lol’ that doesn’t belong in spoken form outside the internet….
Benjamin on 3 Dec 2008 at 8:19 pm: 2
Faulty and fading memories have their usefulness too…
SethW on 6 Dec 2008 at 11:37 am: 3
A perfect world?
Martin R on 6 Dec 2008 at 5:36 pm: 4
Lovely! Good story and good narration.
Martin R on 6 Dec 2008 at 5:37 pm: 5
These flash pieces are like fine chocolates. I listen to each of them twice to make sure I haven’t missed anything.
scatterbrain on 7 Dec 2008 at 7:41 pm: 6
Errr…yeah. One must wonder what the worst was like…
LaShawn on 9 Dec 2008 at 5:03 pm: 7
Ouch! Snap! Great flash!
Steve on 19 Dec 2008 at 12:52 am: 8
Finally! A good flash. This one was great. The reader should have approached this one with much more swagger to really drive the point home. The ending could have been abbreviated even more with something like “Now piss off and don’t ruin my memories.” Of course it is MUCH easier to come up with a one-liner when somebody else has done the hard part. Conclusion… Bravo!
The Fix | From the Podosphere: December 2008 on 18 Jan 2009 at 11:22 am: 9
[...] “Hoarding Colored Rags” by Jared Axelrod (read by Mike Swirsky) is another extremely short piece with a contrary final sentence. This is almost a companion piece to the Blackwell, in which a man is remembering his lover. It works because of the writing style and the simplest of narrative structure: a set-up followed by a fall. [...]