Good cellists don’t rely on their thumbs – a practice exercise is to play études without using your thumb at all – but you can hear his thumb contact the saddle of the cello when he does move into extended positions. And you can hear his breath.
They call her the Unturnable, because she will not change her mind. Once someone has reached the end of their allotted thread, she whisks in to snip it. They call her the Inevitable One. The Inflexible. Rarely do they use her name: Atropos. Most times, the cut is a gentle one, and she catches her […]
He’d been reluctant to bring her to the farm. The prairie was so far from the ocean she loved and confining her to a landlocked life seemed somehow cruel. The night before they left California, she took him to Half Moon Bay. She stripped off her clothes and while he watched, she stepped into the […]
Dog Days of Podcasting #7: Perfunctory Entry by Melissa Bartell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.