RADIO DARK: A novella
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2014-06-19
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
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RADIO DARK is an examination of the fundamental problems at the heart of all interactions: between people, objects, institutions, and technologies. The main characters, Memphis and Cincinnati, discover their own momentum in repurposing the materials of a rapidly deteriorating world.
The novella jars the reader by making use of deadpan narration that has the effect of alienating the reader from the events of the story. This alienation highlights the principal concern of the piece: that narrative begins and ends in the spaces between bodies, where it is open to the corrosive potential of its environment, and where it is stripped of all inherent meaning before being received and reinterpreted.
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Novella, Alienation, Interpersonal relationships