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The Strange Recital

 Brent Robison

The Strange Recital is an audio forum for short fiction. We delight in perceptions of reality that twist and fold in unexpected ways.
Each podcast episode runs about 30 minutes and includes a story reading (the Recital), a musical interlude, and an author interview (the Post-Recital)... with a twist.
Subscribe to get a new episode once a month.

Books Interview Fiction Stories Arts Performing Arts
Update frequency
every 22 days
Average duration
27 minutes
Episodes
103
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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The Right Moment

The Right Moment

"The crowd that had gathered on the quay to watch the departure of Shadow Rose held no collective opinion as to whether she would return. Now that the chronology of those events has become so jumbled…
00:38:34  |   Sun 07 Sep 2025
Zone 23

Zone 23

"In a world of comfort and infinite abundance, Valentina Briggs was sitting quietly, doing nothing, trying to detach... kneeling on the floor, her buttocks resting on her upturned feet, hands forming…
00:35:57  |   Sun 03 Aug 2025
The Zodiacal Light

The Zodiacal Light

"The zodiacal light is very faint and so are we, from hunger, a hunger for the stars, the stars we can never reach. Yes, it is faint and so are our hopes, but that doesn’t matter if we enjoy the stan…
00:38:54  |   Sun 06 Jul 2025
The River Between Us

The River Between Us

"For what must have been the hundredth time that long day I studied the second hand of my watch, a heavy blue-faced Bulova that my wife had spent way too much on for our first wedding anniversary. It…
00:32:19  |   Sun 08 Jun 2025
Another War

Another War

"When the bombing started, J.T. Carter was deep in the bowels of a bank in Baltimore with a video camera on his shoulder, capturing, cinema verité, the mundane fate of everyone’s rent check."   Deser…
00:31:51  |   Sun 04 May 2025
Against the Grain

Against the Grain

"The Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Château de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by s…
00:27:08  |   Sun 06 Apr 2025
The House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom

"Ibn Zakarya was born in the western mountains of Persia, when silk merchants from the east still plied their trade. Even as a half-naked child playing in a dust, he proved himself a prodigy, scratch…
00:28:45  |   Sun 09 Mar 2025
Fabian

Fabian

"When he was fifteen Fabian saw the film The 39 Steps, which had just come out. He liked to say that this film was a turning-point in his life. It was an epiphany for him. As he left the cinema he kn…
00:29:30  |   Sun 02 Feb 2025
Etidorhpa

Etidorhpa

"More than thirty years ago occurred the first of the series of remarkable events I am about to relate. The exact date I can not recall; but it was in November, and, to those familiar with November w…
00:30:54  |   Sun 05 Jan 2025
Shadow

Shadow

"Last night I took the riverside walk for the first time in longer than I care to remember. Nothing much had changed. Homeless men and women were still spending the night on municipal benches. Some w…
00:33:26  |   Sun 08 Dec 2024
When I Saw the Animal

When I Saw the Animal

"The first time I saw the animal, I’ll admit I was tired. It was late at night and I had been drinking at a moderate pace for several hours. The animal could have been anything, the way it flashed ac…

00:28:50  |   Sun 03 Nov 2024
My Past is Mine

My Past is Mine

"The voice asked at Eddie Tomlinson's elbow, 'Is this seat free?' Eddie nodded, and hardly looking around, picked up his hat which he had carelessly put on the seat at his side. Then he went back to …

00:27:50  |   Sun 06 Oct 2024
Richard and Klokko

Richard and Klokko

"Everyone just wants to be loved a bit more than everyone else. See me and not my brothers, my sisters, my bandmates. Love me and not my kid. Feel my sadness."   A dead rock star faces his life on a …
00:39:33  |   Sun 08 Sep 2024
The Tunnel Diner

The Tunnel Diner

"Lightning flashed, thunder cracked, and the diner was instantly in utter blackness. There was a palpable sensation of absence in the air, a sort of death as all electrical vibration in the city ceas…
00:24:29  |   Sun 04 Aug 2024
Stories in a Clouded Mirror

Stories in a Clouded Mirror

"Valentine Basilevich Glass, native of Vyborg, accountant in the bureau of administration of the Leningrad Parks of Culture and Rest, led a number of unrelated lives. Whereas most people were trapped…
00:41:17  |   Sun 07 Jul 2024
Malarkey and Abdul

Malarkey and Abdul

"Their flight was routine, cruising at forty thousand feet, at a speed of five hundred and eighty miles an hour with the wind behind them. There was some turbulence as Malarkey began the descent and …

00:38:12  |   Sun 02 Jun 2024
Bifurcation Events

Bifurcation Events

"Elzy woke to cold, the scent of cold, of snow, of tent fabric. The coldness felt good on her hot skin. Confusion. She wasn’t in her room…? The child fell asleep again before she could figure it out.…

00:34:28  |   Sun 05 May 2024
Covid-1984, The Musical

Covid-1984, The Musical

"Cheek to the cold floor, thick sole on my back, I began to sense my place in this moment in history. I had thought I was playing the hero, arriving just in time to save my mom, when I was put in a c…
00:32:37  |   Sun 07 Apr 2024
Death Watch

Death Watch

"'Like life, a watch provides complications to keep it interesting.' Watanabe sat cross-legged on a low stage while we sat packed around him, students at the feet of a high-art Socrates, all leaning …
00:44:32  |   Sun 10 Mar 2024
The Woman in White

The Woman in White

"The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night.... It was nearly midnight when the servant locked the garden-gate behind me. I walked forward a few paces on …

00:33:16  |   Sun 11 Feb 2024
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