alternate narration: 'house' (Patreon)

Welcome to Retro Junction once again, this time offering a new narration of house, by popular request. Happy to serve Patreonites when I can!

The version attached restores the Savid Doud stories that were excised for time and flow reasons during editing, then later posted to the podcast as two separate shorts. Here, you’ll hear them in the spots I originally intended, then chickened out on, figuring there was already too much weirdness going on in the story to risk adding to it.

Also, the contents of the diary found by Aramis Churchton are here presented in a first-person format. The recording was lifted directly from the original video that house was first conceived as. That final product was never up to snuff for public consumption, but the diary bit seemed salvageable, and my motto is, Always go full epistolary when you can. This short Benjamin Gantt segment sounds a little aged and fuzzy because it’s—wait for it—twenty-five years old, recorded when gas was 44 cents a gallon and our biggest problem was King George III levying another round of taxes on our rabbit pelts.

The music is by Emma Fradd, whose sly work is often heard on the podcast. There are a few other subtle nips and tucks here which may or may not be noticeable to you. Before I began narrating these stories myself, I wasn’t aware of how essential it truly is to hear the sentences as I speak them aloud, so the early stuff never got that last layer of polish. But hey, sometimes polish is overrated.

Until March!

-S

Art by Allison Donovan