Speaking of Stories – Episode 11 – Elia Defore

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“Danielle and I’s conversation starts out as normal. She asks me how I have been, and I usually tell her the latest news: a won basketball game, a new play audition, and other exciting news. And then we talk about Marvin. Marvin. My worst enemy since about the beginning of last school year. Maybe even before then.”

So begins, Elia Defore’s short story, “Fighting Marvin.” Having the narrator in first person brings the reader directly into the story. We enter without introduction, into the narrator’s world, grasping the feeling of being in middle school and dealing with being different. The immediacy of the language, the details and the consistency of the narrator’s voice gives us a real sense of what it feels like to be her.

MUSIC
Today’s music is from multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer David Brown.
– printing the euro
– slow storm over red sand
– Gamelan Synths
– a changing skyline
– birds singing in english, mysteriously
– handjob to a bank man
– ascending through snow
– cats walking single file
Show Theme: “Firetime” by The Keithe Lowrie Duet

CREDITS
Narrator: Elia Defore
Producer & Host: Robert Shull
Audio Engineer: Doug Storm
Literary Consultant: Shana Ritter
Executive Producer: Josh Brewer