EarLit Shorts 1

The first volume of a new series of original short fiction showcases three Newfoundland writers, two of whom narrate their own stories. Janet Russell's reading of Carmelita McGrath's "Revenants," about a couple who have witnessed a terrible car accident while trying to escape on a vacation, has the pace and tension of a good ghost story. The headliner, however, is Joel Hynes's reading of his own story, "Say Nothing, Saw Wood," which is lyrically told in a voice that makes you believe he IS the protagonist, a juvenile offender who learns the truth about his father's identity. The only disappointment in this production is the creepy and inappropriate music that bridges the stories. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine