Sketch of a Bird in Flight

An episode of the Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten podcast, hosted by Soren Narnia, titled "Sketch of a Bird in Flight" was published on June 1, 2015 and runs 127 minutes.

June 1, 2015 ·127m · Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten

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Episode Description

This novella follows young Tobin Millane, lonely outcast and reluctant gunslinger, on his run for survival across the Kansas prairie in 1881. His desperate travels lead him and his silent partner into violent conflict with the bandits he stole from, the law enforcers who see him as nothing more than a lowly thief, and the wrath of a brutal Midwestern winter. Yet in the midst of his hopeless situation, a single ray of beauty unexpectedly touches his life. Created by a genius more famous than he will ever be and pursued by a murderer more infamous than he could ever imagine, a coveted artwork becomes Tobin's final reason to fight on. Sketch of a Bird in Flight is a fable about the nature of courage, an ode to the immortal longing within men to reach for greatness at a cost that often cannot be endured.

read by Ron Herczig

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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