Spin

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time. LagerLites of lagerland, lift your lagers in the sky, and rejoice, it’s lager time This is a Lager Time first this week , as I’m debuting a story called Spin, written by my good friend and sometime collaborator, Christana Lei. SPIN Written by Christana Lei Voiced by Paul Cree Intro by Christana Lei This story is a chapter that never made it into a novel I’m working on.Inspired by my love for the young people I was lucky enough to spend serious time with, when working in a PRU back in 2010. Inspired too by the lyrics of a song called Sad But True by the legendary Metallica (1991), whose lyrics are used throughout. When I write, I tend to imagine my writing like a film playing out in front of me, and if I had the production budget, Metallica would be the soundtrack to this one. Maybe you’ll hear themes in the story but that’s not intentional: It was just an exercise in witnessing and acknowledging the violence that happens with no rhyme or reason, no matter how much we want to find reasons for it, in an attempt to impose order on chaos. It seems that the attempts to do this by those of us who are on the edges but not in the violence; an attempt we make to preserve our own sanity and faith in human nature, more often than not just leads to victim-blaming.I hope Spin pays homage to some of the experiences some of us (hopefully) survive in this messy, sometimes brutal business of being human. And that now Paul has performed it, I can forget about it completely, because it is out of my system. (Which means Paul is now kind of an Exorcist). Enjoy.Christana Lei This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cree.substack.com