FASCIA: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Ashley Donielle Murray
With music by Bird Radio

Narrated by Shea Hall, Anna Castelaz, MaSovaida Salemo Morgan, Liam Singer and Austin Milne.

Digital Audiobook
Published in the Winter of 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9885491-2-8

Published in print by Green Lantern Press in 2009.
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Fascia: n. pl. fas·ci·ae 1. Anatomy. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body. 2. The debut collection of short fiction by Ashley Donielle Murray. Like the tissues binding the heart to its arteries, the Southern vignettes in Murray’s collection describe the threads, sometimes thin, sometimes strong, that connect daughter to father, husband to wife, and ourselves to our own histories. This collection explores the interconnection of individual lives to the world around them. From a girl’s quest for fame in the silent film era to a daughter’s conflicted feelings about her father to the interaction between a nurse and an old man with dementia, the characters in these stories try to distinguish themselves by the very things that bind them together.

This work is presented in audio for the first time, alongside original flute and voice music composed by Bird Radio. Bird Radio, the moniker of solo flautist, composer, improviser and singer-songwriter Mikey Kirkpatrick, created a score that is diverse enough to let each story stand on its own, while binding everything together in clearly themed variations. Murray’s short interludes, appearing in between each story to serve as emotive connectors, are kept intact with ambient, breathy flute drones and concise narrations.

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