Oxygen

It was great to come back from vacation and see the feedback about the podcast in my inbox. Thanks! Here's episode 10: Oxygen. Listen, if you haven't already . . . This one was difficult because of the challenging vocalizations, but also because The Story Behind the Story is that one of my grandfathers was a fisherman who died from lung cancer and whose ashes found home in the water near the Burrows Island lighthouse. The specific events in the story, however, are made up. So much so that, upon reading the story when it was published in Passages North, family members accused me of reinventing history, which I was glad to hear, because it meant I had moved the narrative far enough away from autobiography and turned it into fiction. That said, my goal when I started writing this story was to discover truths. I found them amid the make believe.

Next up in the Winter of Different Directions Podcast will be "Enter Wheelchair Man."

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