Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten

By: Soren Narnia
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  • Works written and produced by Soren Narnia. The text of these stories is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA. Email: songofsadbirds@aol.com -- When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher asked me to sit next to a handicapped kid named Sean and help him along a little if I could. It wasn't easy, because he was quite slow, but I tried. When Sean got especially excited about something, or if he was told he had done something well, he would smile and shout out nonsense words. One of them I remember, which he used to shout many times over the few months I sat beside him, was "Sorinarneeya!" Again and again, it was a harmless word he used when he was happy, and seeing my puzzled expression would just make him say it once more, even more pleased than the first time: "Sorinarneeya!" For some reason that word stuck with me for years, until one day as an adult I realized how neatly and curiously it cut in half. And I thought that was so perfect, how this little gem of a thing had sprung from a bit of the absurd and a bit of the tragic. That seemed like all of life to me: momentary bits of perfection out of all the absurdity and tragedy. And amazingly, they just keep on coming. - SN
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    An ex-athlete reminisces fondly about his years in a half-forgotten, strictly mid-tier baseball league, recalling the characters, the laughter, and all the other tiny pleasures of a long chapter in his fortunate life.

    Written and performed by Soren Narnia.

    Music: “All There Is” by Mateja Kojadinovic, all rights reserved. Narrator: Linda Wojtowick.

    Photo by Hitoaki Koishikawa, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
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  • The Angle of the Light

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    Additional narration by Amy Paonessa.

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    ‘Wooden Starlight’ by Dear Gravity

    ‘Better Now’ and ‘Liquid Mirror - Piano Version’ by Philip Daniel Zach

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    ‘Three’ by Neon Ridge
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  • In the Realm of the Eight Dollar Soda

    In the Realm of the Eight Dollar Soda
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    Five movie parodies for those times when you get wistful about the closure of that discount theater you used to go to with your weird friend Sidney. The movies: Eyes Wide Shut - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Solaris - Winter Light - Heat With Amy Paonessa, Jason Hill, Linda Wojtowick, Josh Hillinger, Cal Butera, Rich Albert, Les Lentz, and Soren Narnia. Written by Soren Narnia. Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com, as follows: "Night In Venice"  Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5763-night-in-venice License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Dhaka” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3646-dhaka License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Send for the Horses” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4335-send-for-the-horses-by-kevin-macleod License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Danse of Questionable Tuning” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3603-danse-of-questionable-tuning License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Dark Walk” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3612-dark-walk License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Gregorian Chant” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3825-gregorian-chant License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Scheming Weasel (Faster Version)” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4326-scheming-weasel-faster-version License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4612-we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Airport Lounge” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “’Dreams Become Real” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3678-dreams-become-real License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Hiding Your Reality” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3875-hiding-your-reality License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Minima” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4054-minima License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Prelude and Action” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4236-prelude-and-action License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Satiate (Only Percussion)” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4320-satiate---only-percussion- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Tiny Fugue” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4531-tiny-fugue License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Canon in D Major” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3473-canon-in-d-major License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Easy Jam” Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3694-easy-jam License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    1 hr and 8 mins

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A rich reading of a subpar story

I love Soren Narnia, and the fact that this is his one of his weakest stories but was still such a strong performance speaks volumes to his talent. The story is more of a character journey than anything, but my issue was that the character’s growth at the end feels a bit grandiose in how bittersweet it was.

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