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Stories

Francis Rosenfeld

A weekly podcast of short stories and book readings by Francis Rosenfeld. Discover literary fiction, surreal tales, and introspective narratives exploring reality, identity, and human connection—perfect for listening on the go.

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My Dear Fiona - Chapter 25 Cathedrals of Stone

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2024/06/07

Orkney takes great care to protect her ancient treasures and history: they are revealed, not discovered, and usually only when she allows it.Violent storms have uncovered many of the old sites, stripping away the topsoil and vegetation to expose millennium-old constructions that had been sleeping beneath the ground. I wanted to show mom and dad the enchanting beauty of the islands and figured going to Sanday together to explore its wild nature would be the perfect way to do it. Protests emerged

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09:16

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 24 The Favor of Heerfather...

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2024/05/31

As the ferry approached Kirkwall, I saw them from afar, waiting on the dock with bright smiles on their faces.“Guess who’s here?” I nudged Denise. “No!” “Oh, yes.” “They don’t trust either of us, I take it. At least we’re dining in style tonight.” “Do you ever think of anything other than food?” “Not right now, no.” “My beautiful daughters,” dad embraced us effusively. “This is how much effort a parent needs to do to get any news from his children.” “Leave some for me too,” mom interjected, waiting

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08:05

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 23 The Island Between Worlds

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2024/05/24

We celebrated the white nights in the streets of Kirkwall, so filled with music and laughter, and I played my ballad, as promised, encouraged by an accommodating and enthusiastic audience. Denise was bursting with pride and kept urging me to put on another show in Eau Claire when we arrived back home, and wouldn't let up until I said yes. I felt guilty in the morning for having so much fun and neglecting my studies, and thought I should take the papers I had begun to see in my dreams back to the

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08:00

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 22 Birth. Again.

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2024/05/17

I was lucky to have Denise with me, otherwise my Maeshowe experience would have held me back, Fiona, because the cairn of Cuween was much smaller, much darker, much more ominous, as it is fitting for a fairy knowe inhabited by spirits from a non-human realm. The experience of entering the earth is only romantic in theory. In practice it involves a lot of hyperventilation, scraped elbows and knees, controlled panic attacks and a feral drive to get out of there as quickly as possible. We didn’t bend

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08:04

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 21 I Dreamt a Dream Last Night

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2024/05/12

We are social creatures, and we don't want to stand out, so we will give up almost anything just to be accepted and partake of the huge game that is society and master its many levels. We’re not all that different, my sister and I: while she pretends not to experience things she can’t explain, I keep mine to myself, neatly placed in their appropriate containers, lest they risk contaminating my very rational and scientific mind. I store them in the area of my mind that has to do with spirituality,

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08:41

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 20 And Spirit Makes Three

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2024/05/03

I didn’t want to wake Denise the next morning, between the beer and the late night I knew she’d be in a rotten mood if she didn’t get her beauty sleep, so I snuck out as quietly as I could, to get a cup of coffee. The streets were already filled with music and dancing and the rhythms of the drums, the festival atmosphere rushed me in the middle of the street, and carried me along with it, even a recluse like me. Life unfolded in all its joy, Fiona, and it looked so effortless, as if all its

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08:24

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 18 Warrior!

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2024/04/26

The green meadow was quiet. There was a large crowd present, but no one made a sound, standing on the grass in a circle, in the light of the torches, waiting. You are standing in the middle, wearing the white dress with green ribbons, and you have fragrant white flowers and green ribbons in your hair, very thin ribbons which make it look like that of a non-human creature, like an undine or a selkie. Your mentor waits for you by the tallest stone, standing poised for the ceremony, and all your

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08:36

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 19 Elverhoj

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2024/04/26

I had promised Denise I’d come to all the rehearsals, not knowing how many they were going to have. Three hours in, watching the same performance fragments over and over, I was on the verge of losing my mind, and my bum was numb from sitting on stone. “How much practice could you possibly need for an improv performance?” “That shows how much you know about theater,” Denise commented, annoyed by the interruption, and turned around to face the cast. “Let’s take it from the beginning of the dance

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08:35

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 17 In the Beginning Was The Wave

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2024/04/19

I couldn’t sleep, and neither could Denise. The sun woke us up when I had barely slept three hours. As for Denise, she had made up her sleep deficit during the day and now was sharp as a tack.We drove to the stones of Stenness with the rosy glow of dawn behind us. The midnight sun bathed our shoulders and put haloes around our hair, and when we got out of the car in the middle of the wilderness, it compelled our silence. We walked in silence for a while through this fantastic landscape, where the

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08:43

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 16 Marwick’s Hole

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2024/04/13

I wondered if there was any sort of protocol when talking to ghosts. Is one allowed to call on them? Or is that considered too forward and one should wait to be acknowledged first?It seems rather rude to disturb the peace of an entity without the consent of the latter, especially when their home base is always overrun with people. Denise adamantly disagreed, saying Mr. Sinclair obviously enjoyed the company of the living and he’d be really disappointed to find out we came to the cathedral and

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09:27

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 15 Betty the White Lady

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2024/04/06

Upon returning from Birsay the following morning, I found Denise sleeping across the doorway.“You forgot to leave a key,” she looked at me cross, but relieved I returned before it started raining. “The landlady could have let you in. Why didn’t you ask her?” “She’s out of town. How was your trip?” “Uneventful,” I didn’t elaborate. How was I to tell her that, cliche as it sounds, my journey to Birsay had been more interesting than arriving at the destination? Once there, I couldn’t think of things

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08:00

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 14 - Viking Poetry

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2024/03/27

It wouldn’t have been Denise if she didn’t change our plans at the last minute, based on the schedules of her new friends. Two days she’d been in a foreign country where she didn’t know a soul and she already made friends, promised to help them set up the stage for their Avant-Garde play and left me flopping in the wind.Strange how one can still get distressed over being excluded when one left home for a solitary pursuit and went far away from the familiar places and people in order to find

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08:47

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 13 Earth to Betty

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2024/03/18

My sister surprised me and came to Kirkwall two weeks early, loaded with goodies from home like a female Santa Claus, to help me get in the spirit of the festival, she said, although it’s more likely mom sent her to check up on me and provide her with the precious details she thinks I don’t want to share.“Where is my instrument, Denise?” “Oh,” she mocked. “You wanted that? Won’t your dead crush disapprove of such frivolities?” I see you dancing around the fire, Fiona, giddy like a child, and

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08:03

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 12 Back at Skara Brae

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2024/03/13

You get mixed up in stories and legends and soon you can’t distinguish them from facts anymore, because history and legend are uninterrupted threads twining through the fabric of time, and the events’ meanings connect across centuries, as if they are all a part of a greater whole we could see if we lived long enough. How long is long enough, Fiona? Although I shouldn’t ask you, should I?In all the times I dreamt of you, I’ve never seen you old, my princess. I can’t see past that fateful day whose

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08:26

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 11 - East Over Water I Fared

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2024/03/06

I stopped by the church yesterday and the mystery of the black tombstones was explained: the graveyard experienced a massive fire, yet the church was unharmed, not even a speck of smoke or soot.I bet you’d be asking yourself right now, Fiona, how does one set stone on fire, and you’d be right. The priest couldn’t explain it either, hence the miracle designation of the phenomenon. It happened so long ago no written records of it remained, and oral history can be very imaginative in these parts. It’s

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