Boneditch by Ian Bird
serial fantasist & novelist @MrCarapace
"Unlikely things happening to implausible people, usually in the nick of time..." These are the kinds of stories I write and then read out loud here - thanks for listening...
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Boneditch 18. It Brings On Many Changes
Boneditch by Ian Bird
05/19/18 • 34 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com The war ended, so Margaret had no choice but to come home... She's been away for at least a decade, living a life of danger and significance, but now she's on her way home and these days she might just be another divorcee, another orphan. Summoned by her stepmother, Margaret steps into a world that means nothing to her, the world created by her family and the skeletons in their closet. Margaret has a skeleton of her own. www.boneditch.wordpress.com
Boneditch 16. The Body In The Library
Boneditch by Ian Bird
03/26/18 • 39 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com (c) Ian Bird 2018 Jessica is thirteen and all but lives in the local library. It's 1938 and the library is her only sanctuary from the responsibilities that are waiting for her around the next corner like she owes them money. But late one night she hears a scream from somewhere in her beloved library and now there are rumours that a killer has stashed their victim somewhere among the stacks... A smart girl would go and find a policeman, and then grow up to be a responsible young woman who everyone thinks very highly of... but a ferocious and fierce and utterly brilliant girl would scowl into the shadows and breathe in that fetid air of mystery and murder and put things right. There's a body in the library... www.boneditch.wordpress.com
Boneditch 04. Rolling The Bones
Boneditch by Ian Bird
03/28/17 • 24 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com The start of Chapter Two: "How To Live Happily And With Security For The Rest Of Your Very Long Life" Eliot Rent has a plan to get revenge on the Fiend who ruined her life - it involves ketamine, an apocalyptic virus and a mutilated devil... to be continued.
Boneditch 01. Crash
Boneditch by Ian Bird
03/05/17 • 11 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com The first part of Boneditch, a serial novel in progress... They fall into the Boneditch in the dark, and they can never climb out again. The fall changes them, irreparably. Fractures them, breaks their bones. When those bones knit themselves back together, the skeleton is different. For some, that’s a fate worth than death, to others it’s simply death. But for some, while the transformation can be chaotic and unwelcome and strange, it is an opportunity to become something ferocious and impossible and true, cosmic and of the earth. They lick the blood from their teeth and stretch wings they never had. Is the Boneditch a cemetery, or a trap, or a virus, or a nest? Is the Boneditch an impossible fiend or the thing that is perfect, that wants to bend the world into a chaotic arena of compulsive invention and fierce inspiration?
Intermission 01. What Does John Welt Keep Under His Bed?
Boneditch by Ian Bird
04/09/17 • 24 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com Intermission Time! I'm a bit behind with the latest gobbet of Boneditch, so here's a different kind of story to fill the slot... John Welt is utterly everyday. They only thing that marks him out is his slightly old fashioned taste and the treasure chest he keeps under his bed...
Intermission 06. The Minuet By Guy De Maupassant
Boneditch by Ian Bird
03/28/20 • 11 min
www.mrcarapace.co.uk bit of a cheat, this one - here's one of the greatest short stories ever written, a gorgeous cameo of sadness and beauty glimpsed and remembered forever as a blessed wound. yes yes yes, i know that blesse means wound in French, that's why I said it, damn it. Anyway, it reminds me of that sense of sadness and gratitude you get when something fleeting and essential falls into view, and the pain is worth bearing. Hope you enjoy it...
Boneditch 20. A Disaster Waiting To Happen
Boneditch by Ian Bird
07/22/18 • 73 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com A car crash that creates a saint. An abused child who becomes the quintessence of distrust. A playground that runs the world. The world's largest organism. The secret truth of bone disease. The witch who became a saint. The town where only psychopaths are allowed to buy homes. The literary festival at the end of the world... For twenty years Eliot Rent has been travelling the world, collecting stories about the little accidents and disastrous catastrophes that have shaped the world, divining at the epicentre a crazed apocalyptic witch. This is the story when she finally recognises that face at ground zero, and this is the point when the competition steals ahead and gives this battered world just one more push. www.boneditch.wordpress.com
Intermission 04. From Grendel To Gotham: If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Batman?
Boneditch by Ian Bird
06/30/18 • 24 min
www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com i should be writing a horror story, but instead here are twenty minutes of words about Grendel, the demon of society's mediocrity, and how he inspires Batman, who needs a great movie right now... www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com
Intermission 03. Ringing The Devil's Belle - In Praise Of The Devils And Belle De Jour
Boneditch by Ian Bird
06/23/18 • 6 min
www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com This time I’m sidestepping slightly to talk about two films I really enjoy, which I wrote about some time ago on my other website, www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com, and which I just stumbled over again – Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece with Oliver Reed, The Devils, and Luis Bunuel’s 1967 work of art Belle de Jour, starring Catherine Deneuve. I think both films do an incredible job of describing a strange and rebellious, erotic and devastating heart, and they’re both deeply affecting and amazing fun... www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com
Boneditch 14. The Curse Of The Warehouse
Boneditch by Ian Bird
02/24/18 • 36 min
www.boneditch.wordpress.com (c) Ian Bird 2018 a short story from the Boneditch anthology... Jon Tennant had never been so cold in his life. It was mid-December at midnight, and the rain that tore against him had in it slivers of ice and bone. His clothes had been rags before the storm started – now they were a sodden shroud. He would never be this cold again. This was the end. The boy stumbled to the ground. All around him were houses and flats, lights burning in the windows, curtains drawn against the storm. He was going to die in this city, surrounded by civilisation. It clearly just wasn’t his civilisation. It was the end of the world, but no one had noticed. He tried to crouch down against a short wall, trying to hide from the storm. It still found him, lit as he was by all the lights in all the windows. He closed his eyes, and he stopped shivering, and he stopped bracing himself against the wind and the knives that it hid within it. Jon didn’t realise that he had stopped breathing. www.boneditch.wordpress.com
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How many episodes does Boneditch by Ian Bird have?
Boneditch by Ian Bird currently has 28 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Podcasts and Arts.
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The episode title 'Intermission 05. Remembering Crazy Jane' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Boneditch by Ian Bird?
The average episode length on Boneditch by Ian Bird is 25 minutes.
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Episodes of Boneditch by Ian Bird are typically released every 12 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of Boneditch by Ian Bird?
The first episode of Boneditch by Ian Bird was released on Mar 5, 2017.
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