I just discovered the joy of podcasts. I know. I’m just a little behind the curve. Anyway, while searching iTunes, I found a horror short story podcast called Pseudopod. I downloaded Pseudopod’s latest cast to listen to today while I walked downtown to the Twin Cities Book Festival hosted by Rain Taxi to pick up a copy of rock, paper, scissors, which contains one of my short stories, “The Methuselah Project.”I really enjoy listening to stories read aloud while I walk around downtown Minneapolis. Downtown Minneapolis seems to me to be the perfect setting for fiction, especially horror stories that explore demonology and souls, as does Medaille’s story.
The main character is a radiologist that truly enjoys his work. He loves looking to people and seeing what is wrong with them. He gives the reader a good list of fatal things that he finds within the human body, each of which gives him a perverse sense of pleasure.
One day, as he is looking deep within someone, he spots a shadowy thing. It hides deep in the chest. It is a soul. His co-workers can’t see what he is looking at because they are soul-blind. He then becomes obsessed with finding each and every person’s soul and comparing them. Some souls are bigger than others, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to soul size. Some souls are harder to find than others.
Then a guy in his machine who has no soul, drive him to discover the existence of demons. He can’t believe it. Demons exist. He does research. He uncovers that about 10% of humanity is not human. So he has to know, does he have a soul?
I’ll stop there. You really need to down load this story and listen to it. It’s not that long and I know that you will really enjoy it.
Medaille, John. Radiodemonology. Pseudopod, 111, October 10, 2008
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