“Last night, I dreamed I was you,” she said, letting one slim finger touch the crisp blue shirt of the security guard, who stood there, aghast, holding the small frame of the impossibly valuable artwork she'd removed from the museum wall in response to my mumbled suggestion that I'd love to have something as beautiful as that to keep forever. “Last night, I dreamed I was you,” she said, and the absurdity of those seven words tore a little hole in the fabric of the universe that was just big enough for the two of us to slip through, out and into the world that I know now, the one where we strolled into the Manhattan sunshine without having paid a price for her impulsive reach for something rare and glorious.
I've been reaching ever since.
Last Night I Dreamed I Was You is an ongoing experiment in radio storytelling by Joe Wall, a writer, performer, composer, and sound designer based in the curious cosmic vortex of Laurel, Maryland. Subscribe (for free!) to the feed and listen in for another slice of narrative rendered in spoken word, impressionistic sound, and ambient music, covering subjects ranging from the microscopic to the grandiose. It's odd, it's engaging, and it's free, so take a chance, subscribe to the feed, and listen.
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download individual episodes:
2005 - July - Wake Up - [right-click or ctrl+click to download episode 05-01]
2005 - August - Pocket Life - [right-click or ctrl+click to download episode 05-02]
2007 - 01 - The End - [right-click or ctrl+click to download episode 07-01]
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