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Hosted by Lourdes · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Written Works For You, By You is a space for short stories, poetry, and creative writing (whether fiction or non-fiction) is read aloud with care. Every piece is shared as it was written — so writers can hear their words and listeners can immerse themselves in unique voices. Submissions are welcome but never required. Whether you’re a writer, a reader, or someone who loves to listen, this podcast is about discovering voices, exploring perspectives, and letting stories breathe.
Lourdes hosts Written Works For You, By You, a arts show with 21 episodes published.
Season 2 nears its end. We've sat together through coming-of-age and comedy, through philosophy and folk horror, through feminist dread and minimalist survival, through satire and absurdity and fever and laughter. The ro
A man named Simon Wheeler tells a story that cannot possibly be true — but he tells it with such absolute sincerity that you find yourself leaning in anyway. It involves a gambler named Jim Smiley, a frog named Dan'l Web
A scholar of quiet habits develops a taste for green tea — too much of it, drank too late, alone in his study with his books. And then he begins to see something. A small figure. A monkey, with eyes that know him. It sit
A critic discovers his favorite author has hidden a secret in his work — a unified meaning, a pattern, a figure in the carpet. He spends his life searching for it. He never finds it. Or perhaps he does, and cannot say. H
A man travels through the Yukon at seventy-five below zero. He is practical. He is experienced. He is not wise enough. Jack London wrote this in 1908 after his own time in the Klondike, and he stripped it of everything e
A man wakes up. His nose is gone. That is not the strange part. Nikolai Gogol wrote "The Nose" in 1836 and I am fairly certain he was laughing the entire time. A St. Petersburg official chases his own nose through the ci
A woman. A room. A pattern on the wall that starts to look back. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892 after her own experience with the "rest cure" — a prescription for women that mostly meant st
The room is back. I was away for a minute — moving, no WiFi, life in boxes. But the light stayed on, and now the microphone is warm again. Literally. I finally got a real mic. A Snowball Blue. No more skull headphones. S
No story this week. I'm moving, the WiFi is gone, and the room is in boxes. Instead: a personal note about why I started Written Works For You, By You, what I thought it would be, and what it became. The silence, the sub
A journal found in a house in Baltimore. Dated September to October, 1922. A man named Tom receives a letter from his lost friend Arthur, gone ten years, and goes to find him. He doesn't know what he's walking into. Neit
You know the need. A place to sit when the night is long and the heart is hollow. Somewhere with light, with someone who doesn't rush you. Somewhere to be alone without being lonely. Hemingway wrote this in 1933. An old
You know Alcott for Little Women. This is the Alcott who wrote in the dark. A young woman, trapped in a house with a man who smiles while he takes her voice. Who tells her she's mad until she almost believes it. Who lock
A warm room for your words, whatever they are. Today: Alexei Tolstoy's 1839 folk horror, "The Family of the Vourdalak." A father hunts in the Serbian woods and returns... not quite right. The oldest son sees it first. Bu
A warm room for your words. This week: Chekhov's "The Bet" — fifteen years of solitude, a piano, and a mind left alone with itself. A meditation on time and what we become when no one is watching. Written Works For You,
A warm room for your words. We hit a thousand streams this week. A thousand times someone opened the door and sat down. Thank you for being here. Next week: 'The Bet' by Anton Chekhov — fifteen years of solitude, a piano
Welcome back. O. Henry was a pharmacist, a ranch hand, a bank teller, and a fugitive before he was a writer. He wrote this while he was hiding from the law, and you can feel it — two kidnappers who think they've got it a
Season 2 opens with Matthew Pelton — the writer who gave us "Dear Mr. Supertramp..." during the break. This time: four friends at a boarding school, one last night, one fire. A goodbye that doesn't feel like a goodbye ye
A break between seasons, but the room stays open. This week: a poem from Matthew Pelton — screenwriter, award-winning short film writer, poet. A Creative Writing major turned filmmaker, currently completing his master's
Chapter Eight. The last one for now. Tom, Petra, Jenn, and Ryan are still driving. Ten hours, then the road stops being just road. What happens there—I won't tell you. But I will say: someone tries to make it right, and
Chapter Seven. Tyrell. I wasn't sure how to voice this one. Too much happens. Too fast. I had to stop twice, walk away, come back. Some stories ask that of you. This chapter moves from a crash to a run to a doorway that
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