Readjustment - Sci-fi audiobook (PAID)
deathbyinsomnia for Narrator
Major role.
The narrator will read all prose that isn't dialogue, as well as Helen Bach's interior thoughts. This is the most labor-intensive role, as it's a lot of text; must be able to differentiate Helen's thoughts from the regular narration. For audition lines below, text in brackets [ ] are Helen's thoughts.
Medium-pitched voice, smooth and calm.
We were all going direct to heaven,
we were all going direct the other way.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Rex’s expression shifted to what he must have thought was nonchalance as he took a moment to compose himself, but there was a hard edge to it. Disappointment or annoyance, Helen suspected. [Did you really think I asked you here for a quickie in the machine shop?] she thought, disgusted. [Not even Good Helen would consider it.]
Rex pays the bill and leaves a tip of exactly fifteen percent, down to the penny. When he turns his back, Helen puts all the cash from her purse on the table. She thinks, wildly: someone in this City should have a good night. They ride back to the house, then, Helen sitting rigid behind Rex on his motorcycle. She stares at the streetlights and lets her mind untether from her body. [You can and you can’t, you shall and you shan’t, you will and you won’t.] She feels herself wrap her arms around Rex’s waist; she leans her head on his shoulder. [And you’ll be damned if you do, and you’ll be damned if you don’t.]
