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Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten

Soren Narnia 20 Episodes Aug 17, 2026

An original audio fiction and essay series written and produced by Soren Narnia. The stories explore themes of absurdity and tragedy, often drawing from personal memories and reflections. Each piece is crafted as a literary work, with a contemplative, storytelling tone. The podcast's title and content echo a childhood anecdote about a disabled classmate and a nonsense word that inspired the author's pen name. The works are shared under a Creative Commons license.

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Paintings by Nadia Strause Aug 17, 2026 03:14:12 A young painter turns her back on a life of quiet desperation to pursue contentment in a ragtag artists' collective in a faraway city. A spring and summer on her own for the first time bring her unexpected new friends and indelible moments of both joy and sorrow, and every hopeful brush stroke makes her see more clearly the person she was meant to become. Narrated by Mig Windows, Linda Wojtowick,

Little Boy Games Jul 11, 2023 01:17:52 An ex-athlete reminisces fondly about his years in a half-forgotten, strictly mid-tier baseball league, recalling the characters, the laughter, and all the other tiny pleasures of a long chapter in his fortunate life. Written and performed by Soren Narnia. Music: "All There Is" by Mateja Kojadinovic, all rights reserved. Narrator: Linda Wojtowick. Photo by Hitoaki Koishikawa, Wikimedia Commons, C

The Angle of the Light Feb 1, 2021 02:38:49 In this love story set in a small American town in the late 19th century, a wanderer seeking shelter from troubling memories is changed forever by the women who befriend him there. Additional narration by Amy Paonessa. Music: 'Wooden Starlight' by Dear Gravity 'Better Now' and 'Liquid Mirror - Piano Version' by Philip Daniel Zach 'Landscape with Airplanes in the Rain' by REW

In the Realm of the Eight Dollar Soda Mar 5, 2020 01:08:07 Five movie parodies for those times when you get wistful about the closure of that discount theater you used to go to with your weird friend Sidney. The movies: Eyes Wide Shut - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Solaris - Winter Light - Heat With Amy Paonessa, Jason Hill, Linda Wojtowick, Josh Hillinger, Cal Butera, Rich Albert, Les Lentz, and Soren Narnia. Written by Soren Narnia. Music by Kevin MacLeo

Tyrant, Draw Thy Sword Sep 19, 2018 02:05:18 The year was 2007, and conditions in Bello Gardens, one of the most squalid and dangerous housing projects in America, were at their worst. Decimated by poverty, tortured by crime, and suffocated by neglect, the slum known cynically as the Joke faced a lonely, unnoticed death. When tensions in the community rose to a breaking point, the last remaining inhabitants of Bello Gardens--desperate gang m

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking Feb 8, 2018 01:27:58 For diehard romantics only, these are the letters of a reckless stargazer who turned his back on reality to lose himself in a love story whose ending seemed foretold from the beginning. Narrated by Soren Narnia and Justy Gee of the Starless podcast. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Joke Meets Ground Aug 13, 2017 02:06:56 What do you mean, you don't remember my podcast Joke Meets Ground? Here's the entire run (I would have gone much farther, but I seem to recall the audience had other ideas). Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Three Stories for a Rainy Sunday Afternoon Jul 13, 2017 21:52 Music: "Feather Waltz" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever Feb 20, 2017 01:24:57 Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever depicts the unusual on-stage wedding of Stanley and Muriel, a ceremony filled with stunningly honest testimonials and reenactments which reveal the couple's deepest secrets. In the space of ninety minutes they experience hilarity, embarrassment, wonder, and sadness, all with the goal of emerging from a tiny small town theater cleansed and determined enough to face the

Whatever You Find Within You Apr 9, 2016 02:21:42 Whatever You Find Within You is a romantic comedy of both solemn longing and bumbling confusion, and the rather fine line between the two. When an unread love story by the great nineteenth century Icelandic playwright Dari Stanislad is discovered in 2011 by the brain trust of an educational institution of dubious reputation, numerous obsessed parties squabble like overstimulated chickens over its

Objects Found in a Faraway Field Feb 1, 2016 13:35 It's funny, the little theories you develop over the years, so random and rarely spoken. One of mine is that if any true, irrevocable harm can come to a single innocent creature on this earth, then maybe, just maybe, life itself should never have existed--nothing has ever been worth that pain, none of it, going back to the beginning of time. I suppose that from such thoughts must occasionally come

The Tears of Sisyphus Nov 2, 2015 59:44 Over the course of one long day on a seemingly endless country road, a hitchhiker listens to the sad, desperate circumstances that her driver has found himself in--and becomes witness to his determined effort to free himself from a terrible trap of isolation and regret. The only weapon he has is a truly powerful one: his ever-wandering mind and its awesome ability to show him worlds no one else ca

Toward the Close of November Sep 24, 2015 11:16 A short and simple fable, written years ago, and one I think about whenever I feel the first chill of the season in the air.

New Players Welcome Here Aug 31, 2015 01:25:20 You never know which one of those temporary jobs you take in your twenties on your way to a real career will provide you with the greatest memories. For the narrator of this novella, it was unexpectedly working for the Pittsburgh Design Agreement, a board game company populated by dreamers with endlessly creative designs--all brought to the world through the recklessness of a CEO who understood am

Song of the Living Dead Jul 27, 2015 02:04:35 The zombies rose and walked, the country went mad, and then the zombies laid down again--all without committing a single act of violence. Traveling randomly across the east with a group of close friends, the restless dreamer Lionel Gathers witnesses first-hand the nightmarish confusion that the living dead bring upon the land in this tale that is both satire and elegy. It's a story of one man's de

Sketch of a Bird in Flight Jun 1, 2015 02:07:52 This novella follows young Tobin Millane, lonely outcast and reluctant gunslinger, on his run for survival across the Kansas prairie in 1881. His desperate travels lead him and his silent partner into violent conflict with the bandits he stole from, the law enforcers who see him as nothing more than a lowly thief, and the wrath of a brutal Midwestern winter. Yet in the midst of his hopeless situat

3:13 a.m. May 1, 2015 02:46:08 It is 3:13 a.m., and now the human imagination reaches out to places and yearnings that it shies away from during life's daylight hours of quiet desperation. The brief parables, random episodes, and emotional wanderings presented here act as a repository of all that can be felt and dreamed when the night is dark, the soul is alone, and our thoughts become uncaged until the first blue of dawn ends

Loft Apr 12, 2015 01:00:58 For seven years around the turn of the 21st century, America was enthralled by one of the most intense sporting competitions ever invented. The game of Loft demanded extraordinary precision, athleticism, and daring, rewarding only those who made a total physical and intellectual commitment. This is the story of Loft's rise, glory, and controversial disappearance from the sports landscape. Its hist

Signs Pass By Mar 28, 2015 01:22:35 When data analyst and closet comedian Calvin Tarby enrolled in depression treatment at a facility in the middle of nowhere, he was prepared to slog through six long weeks of isolation. But then he was tipped off to an unexpected perk of the program, and suddenly the barren winter fields all around him no longer held him completely captive. This is a story of unscripted travel via the kindness of s

A Listing of the Holdings of the National Museum of Romance Mar 25, 2015 01:30:22 In December of 2003, the National Museum of Romance in Tristia, New Jersey, closed its doors due to lack of funding. On December 14, the public came to bid on the artifacts in the museum's permanent collection, fascinated by the stories of passion, yearning, and heartache behind each item. From the longest breakup letter ever written (214 pages), to the movie prop which represented true love for a

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