Foxgloves and Nylon Heart Strings

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Spoken word, short stories, dreams, poetry, documentary and science fiction episodes with sound design.

  1. Between the Whole World and the Sea

    12/23/2025

    Between the Whole World and the Sea

    Short poem

    4 min
  2. Museum of No Importance: Episode 11 - The Mission Bell

    09/21/2025

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 11 - The Mission Bell

    The Mission Bell is something that guides us in our hour of need, no matter how many thousands of years that may last. short science fiction monologue

    3 min
  3. Museum of No Importance: Episode 10 - Shooting Birds

    08/02/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 10 - Shooting Birds

    A short poem about birds in the English countryside. The Museum of No Importance is a series of poems and stories describing the unimportant, everyday tales of people from across our galaxy. Episode 10 returns to Earth for a winter stroll.

    2 min
  4. Museum of No Importance: Episode 9 - Rhylys

    06/21/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 9 - Rhylys

    Short science fiction or psychological horror poem about a creature named Rhylys Cover image created with Le Biniou audio-reactive software.

    2 min
  5. Museum of No Importance: Episode 8 - Freddy's Manifesto

    06/02/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 8 - Freddy's Manifesto

    Freddy's Manifesto Dystopian science fiction poem. A short poem I wrote many years ago. Narrated by Ian B

    1 min
  6. Museum of No Importance: Episode 7 - The Listening Post

    05/05/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 7 - The Listening Post

    The listening post A short psychological horror poem Cover art by DALL-E

    6 min
  7. Museum of No Importance: Episode 6 - Last Week's Tomorrow

    04/08/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 6 - Last Week's Tomorrow

    Last Week's tomorrow: The halls are vast and calm, And the sounds are mostly empty, ignorable. I've not seen another person in a couple of hours And the only way I remember their existence is the occasional cough or sneeze leaking down the long broad corridors. Here in this room I can be whomever I wish. Nobody will ever tell me any differently. In these two hours, I crafted a whole persona. Who Am I really? It is immaterial. I am who I decide to be until the nurse returns to tell me differently. I am a wounded soldier of the Glameri Empire, Wounded in person and in mind And now this sterile palace is my place of healing. It's not a lie. It's my best guess. I don't remember where these bullet wounds came from, But I remember the nurse telling me stories about the war. We defeated them, the Empire of the market towns, the merchants who can never have enough The ones who insist and insist on how to live. We won, and now I'm here with my fractured memories. I do remember the war, but it comes here and there, now and then, in a shower of gunsmoke and a hail of shrapnel. I remember the booming explosions that came from above like the sneezes that echo around these cavernous passageways. I look at the shadow my hand casts beneath this spotlight, And I see the shapes of soldiers stumbling through the mist towards us. I see these high cream walls, and I remember a hospital with streaks of blood. I look at my bandaged leg, and I see a defeated army dragging itself to safety. But the nurses tell me we are the winners. I hear the high insistent whine of the alarm, And I hear the enemy I hear bells in a market town. I hear familiar voices laughing and chatting. I hear I hear you calling to me I smell your perfume and feel your kiss on my cheek I feel your soft hands squeezing hard on my army jacket. I feel you slipping away from me into a valley of fire and fear into a viscous immeasurable sleep Into a general anaesthetic I hear the bells, the bells of my hometown The bells of my real hometown. I look around me at the prison of these walls And the stale air And the trolley that seemed mundane Now malign and alien Enemies all around I miss the bells of a former life A life that I can hear when I am alone And a life that no longer exists, A life they have taken A life they have erased from my mind And replaced with a new life A sterile life of whining klaxons And cream walls And irresolute dreams And unknown faces And indistinct memories And stolen memories And new memories fading into the void of a vanquished foe. Let me out Let me out Let me out! I want to go home!

    5 min
  8. Museum of No Importance: Episode 5 - Call Upon a Wave

    04/03/2024

    Museum of No Importance: Episode 5 - Call Upon a Wave

    Another anecdote from the galaxy in the Museum of No Importance. Science fiction audio poem with musical and sound effects. As a cruiser reaches a new world, what is there but to call upon a wave? Call Upon a Wave Fate's deathly grip loosens as our ship slows its mighty descent and glides to a hovering halt over the crimson carpet that quivers below. Lather gathers in a Bevy of hairs that stir in the sticky waves that lash and congeal and seemingly beckon us down, before collapsing back into chaos. We're safe now. Safe to watch the waves of treacle that roll beneath our cruiser. But creamy echoes beguile us, bouncing from our shimmering hull and out into this unexplored world. The air is thin. Lifeless. Yet, something draws me to watch from the obs deck. Drunken faces curdle in the slow, glutinous maroon-lashing waves. They’re calling, calling to me. I can see their siren faces. Singularly, I’m pulled towards an abyss of tempting eternity. Flickering shadows of doubt pulse and meet something shimmering intelligently On our hull, probing and pressing, pressing on some old instinct. Finally, into the ocean I fall, Helmet cracked and I gasp. Sinking, struggling, drowning, until I gulp a mouth of nothing. I am nowhere, below what I thought were waves. Nothing stirs and nothing is real. A sickly silence spreads. I scream in broken time, nowhere. The scream is devoured as it falls upwards. Three provisions of sense are granted to me, A smell, a taste, a contradictory texture of gel and ice They alleviate my malaise while leaving me none the wiser. I look down or up? I grasp for the phantom shadows that swirl outside the vortex that now surrounds me. Another world awaits me. Another world awaits.

    3 min
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