Derek Palmer's story "Double Vision" was the first story we ran on our show, back when we didn't know that you had to do sound removal, and that making an edited mp3 of an mp3 and then saving it as an mp3 would degrade the quality. But I still like that story, and would like to do it again, if someone told me I had suddenly gained thirty extra years on my lifespan or something. We've done a couple other stories by that author, including the one everybody hated. I hope he took that better than I did.
So, here I am, doing a reading on Audible of one of his stories.
"Very Superstitious" is a story about a teenage girl, Ally, who is so out of control that her mother sends her to New Mexico* to stay with her backward, religious cousins and their strict, conservative parents. She balks at the silly rules in the household, like not watching television on Sunday, never showing their underwear, and leaving reeds outside the house so the Bice, a sort of boogeyman, will leave their daughters alone. Religious people are so stupid and backward.
Except, it turns out, that there are others in town that also believe in the Bice. Non-religious people.
I like this story a lot. It's hard to talk about this one objectively, but there were a couple of moments I found pretty friggin' scary, and if that makes me sound like a self-serving corporate tool, then I'm making progress in life.
Here's the link http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/Very-Superstitious-Audiobook/B00FSSK6K8/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1384228938&sr=1-1 if you'd like to go over there and pick up that one, and I'd be (hestitantly) interested in your thoughts on it.
Rish Outfield, Bice Hunter
*Maybe she was from New Mexico and they sent her somewhere else, I'm not sure.
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