“Horus” is the first short story I’ve written in at least half a decade. (My focus in recent years has been novel-length fiction.) To get back to short fiction, my motivation was simple: write a story for my wife. My wife is a fan of parrots, so a story about an unemployed writer who lands her dream job, but gets more than she bargained for in the form of an African grey parrot named Horus seemed like a good way to go. “Horus” is almost the most downloaded episode of Not About Lumberjacks. I like to think that’s because the story is good (I, and others, believe it is), but I think so much of the episode’s success was the result of having my wife, Cynthia Griffith, narrate the story. Cynthia’s narration was the highlight of the episode for so many people…so for this episode of Behind the Cut, I interviewed Cynthia about reading the story.
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I liked that you weren’t going to sober up in 3 weeks! Seriously though, nice interview and good feedback. You did such a great job with the story and with the interview. But I didn’t like being left hanging about what you were talking about for another for Cynthia’s voice.
Hahahahahahaha…yeah, the wording on that bit is funny. When we listened later, we cracked up.
Cynthia did such a great job with the narration. And as far as the other thing Cynthia mentioned, it’s barely an idea right now, so it will be some time before it happens. But before then, I’m sure she’ll narrate some other stories.