Until Your Heart Releases You

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09/07/22 • 23 min

While all of my stories are born from some experience I have had, “Until Your Heart Releases You” was inspired by a nightmare following a miscarriage. It is a meditation on loss, fatherhood, and an overactive imagination. This one was a tough one to record.
Starring
Narrator--Michael MauElaine--Emaline MauMom--Chad Morgan

Music by Trevor Tremaine
Voices:
Aryeh Krause-Nadler
Ethan Herschenfeld
Irene Santiago
Ronald Woodhead
Danny Gavigan
Reagan Prum
Catherine Gaffney
Elizabeth Pan
Evan Judway
Bryce Townsend
Carrie Gibson
Jennifer Keane
Rich Greene

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Theme music composed by Trevor Tremaine
Main title artwork by Geneva Hicks
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To the Touch

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After Grace is institutionalized for a potentially dangerous "disorder," she learns to embrace her powers and grow her self-worth.
“To The Touch” was published in the 2020 edition of Jelly Bucket Literary Journal under the pseudonym Gina Urban. That year it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. This story grew out of a vision I had of a young woman touching a sheet of glass gently only to watch it shatter under her palm. If the story is an allegory, it is incidentally so. Or maybe subconsciously so.
Narrator: Chad Morgan
Grace: Rory Booth
Philip: Ryan Goffman
Mother: Malya Muth
Father: Michael Mau
Sound effects courtesy of Pixabay.
Special thanks to Annie Weaver and Shenandoah Evans.

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Silence

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A childhood memory of a racist encounter is brought to the surface when a young man once again faces a bigot.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
-WB Yeats, The Second Coming

In the summer of 1994, I was a college student working as a stocker at Piggly Wiggly in Montevallo, Alabama. I grew up in the South, so racism was not a new concept for me. As a white male, I did not understand how privileged I was nor how entitled. This combination bred a cowardice in me that I am still coming to terms with. This personal narrative is just as much a self-indictment as a criticism of the south.
Written and Directed by Michael Mau
STARRING
Narrator--Michael Mau
Buck--Blaque Fowler
Slurpee Man--Paul Fegan
Grandmother/Teacher--Christa Burton
Mom--Shenandoah Evans

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