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Ash Flake in a Blizzard
by Mundane Stories
*Ash Flake in a Blizzard* sits somewhere between a memoir, a short story collection, and a stack of letters between close friends. It's about the stories we inherit whether we want to or not, the identities imposed on us, and the ones we build for ourselves. It's a series of snapshots, postcards from a thousand hills to the Ardennes… not mere locations, but their echoes, their scars, their hearts. It's also a life distilled into words. From military service, fatherhood, collapse, and reconstruction, Gabriel revisits the moments that made him and traces the path to what nearly unmade him.Told with humor, tenderness, and intimacy, this story isn't afraid to interrogate its own narrator, to demand the raw truth, however uncomfortable. *Ash Flake in a Blizzard* chronicles one life among billions, insignificant from a distance and impossibly intricate up close.
Episodes
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Echoes of Little Stories
Brussels, February 2019. Gabriel drives his brother to the airport in his company car. His brother admires the car, then turns to the career advice. Gabriel wishes his writing received a fraction of the consideration given to what he drives and where he works. When his brother speaks of financial...
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One in a Million
Sarajevo, June 2008. Halfway through a peacekeeping deployment, Gabriel has grown comfortable with the peculiar freedom of military life abroad. Then a book read too late into the night, a lunch far too rich, and a nap much too comfortable conspire to produce an outcome that Gabriel won’t soon...
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Mon Papyrus
Brussels, June 1999. Gabriel’s bedroom is barely large enough for a bed and a desk. Fortunately, the Internet needs neither. When the modem screeches to life, *Mon Papyrus* opens onto a world where the quiet teenager nobody quite understands gets to build worlds of his own. Behind the gaudy...
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Love at First Tale
Gabriel has invented a microeconomy in Mushubati. For two slices of bread, he can bribe his siblings into endless tellings of Nyashya na Baba, his favorite umugani. Back to the beginning. Before the overpass, before friends and lovers, before even the two little monsters, there were stories.
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Le Blanc
Gabriel has barely made it back to Africa before Josine starts calling him *Le Blanc*. The nickname lands somewhere between a joke and a diagnosis, especially when he freezes at a Bujumbura market, gawking at avocados, papayas, and mangoes like a tourist. After decades spent being the African in...
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Shattered
Gabriel is running out of time. Hands slick with grease, cold drizzle creeping beneath the overpass, he glares at the broken bike and tries to ignore the darker thoughts assaulting his mind. *Shattered* finds Gabriel at one of those mundane moments when it feels like the jaws of the entire world...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
*Ash Flake in a Blizzard* sits somewhere between a memoir, a short story collection, and a stack of letters between close friends. It's about the stories we inherit whether we want to or not, the identities imposed on us, and the ones we build for ourselves. It's a series of snapshots, postcards from a thousand hills to the Ardennes… not mere locations, but their echoes, their scars, their hearts. It's also a life distilled into words. From military service, fatherhood, collapse, and reconstruction, Gabriel revisits the moments that made him and traces the path to what nearly unmade him.Told with humor, tenderness, and intimacy, this story isn't afraid to interrogate its own narrator, to demand the raw truth, however uncomfortable. *Ash Flake in a Blizzard* chronicles one life among billions, insignificant from a distance and impossibly intricate up close.
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*Ash Flake in a Blizzard* sits somewhere between a memoir, a short story collection, and a stack of letters between close friends. It's about the stories we inherit whether we want to or not, the identities imposed on us, and the ones we build for ourselves. It's a series of snapshots, postcards...
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