PodCastle 396: Spirits of the Wind (Giant Episode) - a podcast by Escape Artists, Inc

* Author : Brendan Detzner

* Narrator : Wilson Fowlie

* Host : Rachael K. Jones

* Audio Producer : Peter Wood

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First appeared in the short story collection Beasts, by Brendan Detzner.





Strong language





RatedPG-13

Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Spirits of the Wind

by Brendan Detzner

She was surprised how fast she’d caught herself missing the time that she lived here. She knew that she and Jessica and Rina had been driving each other crazy all cooped up together, and she remembered climbing up to the third floor and down again and how she thought she was going to slip and fall on the ice each winter when the landlord never laid down salt, and she missed it anyway, and could anticipate feel herself looking back and missing it more and more. A simple thing, gone now.

The truth, which she knew and thought everybody in the room had to know too,was that this had been a big year. They’d reached the top of a hill and were on their way down, and some of them were heading towards other hills and maybe some of them weren’t. People’s parents were dying. Guys were going bald, girls were covering up tattoos and using concealer. Mike, who was always a little crazy and fun to have around and who liked to drink, wasn’t around anymore, and still liked to drink and probably was drinking out there somewhere. Kat missed him, but she knew it was better that he was gone. She couldn’t afford to be around a guy like that anymore.

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