
PodCastle 735: The Artists’ Colony
Show Notes
Rated PG-13
The Artists’ Colony
Patrick Freyne
Dear ______,
I think you would love it here. It’s so peaceful and you were always saying, back in the city, that we needed to get away.
So let me describe what I can see from my writing desk. Outside my window I can see a silver lake which is very still. Behind the lake there is a hill that is partly covered with coniferous trees. Above the hill there is a mottled grey sky. The trees on the hill look like they’ve been painted against that sky with vertical dashes of paint and their reflections in the lake look like inverted impressionist renderings of the same scene.
There is no sound. No engines. No construction. No destruction. No children. No birds. (Continue Reading…)