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Sightless Scribbles

Listen to audiobook samples, blog posts, essays, short stories, and other literary stuff by the award-winning Blind writer Robert Kingett with a wide array of narrators!

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A Field Guide to the Personal Space Violations of...

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/08/28

Narrated by Sean CrisdenA Blind rider of US Public Transit gives a breakdown of the kinds of riders and how to spot them. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:06:36

On Hearing in Color

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/08/20

Read the blog post here. Narrated by Sean Crisden, this episode talks about how Robert can hear colors even though he is totally blind.Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:07:33

An Obituary for a Cookie

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/08/14

Read the text version here. Narrated by Sean Crisden, this essay hilariously frames a date like a crime scene. Robert's latest date eats his last cookie. How will Robert cope with this loss? Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:05:11

A Conversation with a Voicemail I will never delete

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/08/14

Read the essay here. Narrated by Sean Crisden this essay is about Robert, a gay man, listening to the voicemail of a friend that is no longer here with us. His last words were, I love you. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings

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00:16:35

Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs version 2

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/08/08

Narrated by Gabriel Michael this post is about how a doorknob isn't just a doorknob. It's an accessibility statement all by itself. Read the post online, here. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:02:50

The Automated Labyrinth, and How I Slew the Minotaur

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/07/29

Narrated by Sean Crisden, this blog post is an account of how a blind and gay nerd overcame the pitfalls of the automated labyrinth of a health insurance phone tree. Read the post online here if you don't want to listen to the audio version. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:16:34

On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/07/21

Narrated by Sean Crisden this essay, originally published on Sightless Scribbles, is an examination of doorknobs and how they relate to accessibility for blind people. Read the essay online here. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:05:01

Pass the Salt audiobook sample

Sightless Scribbles ·

2025/06/30

Narrated by Kevin R Free. This is the audiobook sample of Pass the Salt Online dating is never easy. You’re meeting a complete stranger, and you’re opening yourself up in a way that some of your best friends don’t even get to see. But when Robert Kingett stepped out onto the dating scene, he faced a whole host of additional challenges as gay man living with blindness, cerebral palsy, and a speech impediment. Pass the Salt details Robert’s time on the dating scene in 2010s Chicago. Get ready to meet

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00:12:27

Access Trauma narration 2

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/12/20

This is an alternate narration of the essay, combating Access Trauma, on Robert Kingett's personal website.

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00:10:56

How I would make the World Better

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/11/30

Watch with ASL and Captions here A blind writer has an idea in a second grade essay how we could radically change the work system with dead animals, body Oder, and old people. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:14:37

Access Trauma

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/11/16

This is a reading of this blog post by Robert Kingett on access Trauma Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings Find out more at https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co

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00:07:18

We should rehabilitate

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/01/29

Read the blog post here about my letter writing journey regarding writing to prisoners. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings

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00:06:16

A Disabled gamers time with the Xbox 360 console.

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/01/27

From Robert Kingett's blog, this is an article about what it was like gaming as a Blind man with the Xbox 360

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00:17:43

Pointy Chances, a short Rom Com story.

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/01/26

Episode Notes Read the print version here Nick's sentient pen doesn't just write in Braille, it helps him have the courage to talk to the Goalball star and student activist Nick had a crush on for years. With a Braille note created by the sentient pen, maybe love can finally happen for an insecure hero. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings

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00:06:21

An NVDA review from the past.

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/01/26

Episode Notes Previously from Dialog magazine that is no longer publishing, this was a review of NVDA, a free and open source screen reader. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings

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00:06:21

Clarifying my Disability identity.

Sightless Scribbles ·

2024/01/26

Episode Notes This is a recording of one of my blog posts, clarifying my disability identity. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings

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00:32:08

A Deserving Conference

Sightless Scribbles ·

2022/10/13

Our final podcast from the anthology IT CAME FROM THE COMMENT SECTION! couldn’t be more appropriate or seasonal. Typically our writer’s run dark – maybe that’s just the nature of creating compelling stories. But every now and then we get a story that’s full of empathy and compassion – a story such as this one from Robert Kingett. Please enjoy this personal and heartfelt tale that celebrates selflessness and humanity. Support Sightless Scribbles by contributing to their tip jar:

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00:06:37

GTA V Review

Sightless Scribbles ·

2021/05/18

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