Brimming with Gothic charm, Larry Brent’s first audiobook adventure is a nostalgic reminder that as good as dramatic adaptations can be, an author’s original text has a charm all its own.
This week we take classic fairy tales and turn them on their heads with a compelling piece produced as part of the Willamette Radio Workshop’s Writer’s on the Air radio writing workshop help every summer. “Next Year’s Girl” tells about a small village held under the thumb of a beast which requires a yearly sacrifice of their young girls. But as one daring young girl finds out, there is beauty in the beast, and more beasts than one easily sees…