Short Audiobook Flash Fiction Recording - The Skip
dhenderson for Flash Fiction Narrator
I’m creating a new batch of flash fiction pieces to put online this month. One of them is called ‘The Skip’ and is a bit of flash fiction prose (about 90 seconds in length) about someone sat on the edge of a creek, staring into the water and skipping stones. I want this to be performed in a lazily, laconic way. As if life meaning can be found within the water and the ripples. I imagine this performed by someone with a southern American accent, someone a bit older, with life experience. I’m kind’a looking for a slow meaningful drawl, which can drag us into this experience, as the water and it's ripples are described.
You can either send me an example of your voicereel, or pick out one of the lines from the piece to record below.
- american (southern)
- male adult
A man alone on the wet bank of the creek. He rests softly on a hollow log with eyes forward, feet apart. His wide hat halts the advance of the midday sun from above, so it sneaks below by deflecting off the water.
Behind the reflection are a thousand tiny tadpoles, unable to see or comprehend, waiting to become. Below them, a million rocks worn small and smooth by the eons.
The man leans over, his reflection leans upward. He stretches a hand toward the water, and his reflection puts up its own as if to stop it.
