CRYSTAL RADIO SESSIONS UPSTATE
Light a candle. Embrace the unknown. Step through the veil with...Crystal Radio Seance! CRS and Ancram Opera House welcome you to another evening featuring stories by local authors, this time exploring the eldritch, uncanny and sublime in the beauty of an autumn night at Roe-Jan Park. The program includes:
Nobody Said Anything About The Pig, and
Swinging By Spring, by Rhea Dhanbhoora
One woman can't admit she's dead. The other is becoming a porcelain Lladro figurine.
A Skull Dreams It Is A Horse, by Ashley Mayne
Two ghosts share a skull. But can they also share an afterlife?
The Diorama, by David Ryan
The past brushes the present, then illuminates it, in this rhizomatic meditation on death, love, danger, and a childhood art project.
Reading are actors Andrea Morales and Marcus Kearns.
About the authors:
Rhea Dhanbhoora lives and writes in Upstate NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including Chronogram, Peripheries Journal, Capsule Stories, The Spill, & JMWW. She’s currently on the Board for the literary organization, Quiet Lightning, and is working on several projects, among which is a linked collection of stories about women, based in the Parsi Zoroastrian diaspora. Her chapbook, Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons, is available with Finishing Line Press. Follow her work at rheadhanbhoora.com.
David Ryan is the author of Animals in Motion: Stories. His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Threepenny Review, New Letters, Fiction, The Harvard Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the writing programs of Sarah Lawrence College and New England College. More about him at www.davidwryan.com.
Ashley Mayne’s work has appeared in Fence, Post Road, Juked, Peripheries, Blight Podcast, Metambesen, Quiet Lightning, Malasaña, and elsewhere. She edits fiction for Fence, and is one of the creators of Crystal Radio. She lives in Millerton, where she’s hard at work on her latest project, a novel set during the Reformation. An audio version of A Skull Dreams It Is A Horse is forthcoming on vinyl, on a split record with Brian Evenson, from Blight Stories. Find out more at www.ashleymayne.com.
About Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate
As the local outpost of the New York City reading series, Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate is devoted to transmitting compelling literary expression through the ether. Curated by Ashley Mayne.
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