IN OTHER LIFETIMES…

Inspired by the story by Courtney Sender "In Other Lifetimes."

From Courtney: “In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me” is an ode to longing, loneliness, and the nearness yet impossible distance of other lives we might have lived. It is the title story in my forthcoming collection, and could be the title of every story in the book.

From TJ: When presented with many paths in life, we often try to make a decision based on which we feel is *right.* Though, as time goes one we realize that none were more right than the others, perhaps it was just the one we chose and our life rearranges around that decision.

We can get caught up in indecision or rather, decision paralysis. Something some of us know quite intimately. The music is a reminder to just pull back. Ease off. Rest. And lean in wherever that *in* is. For the goalpost moves and if you attempt to continue running to the next before stopping to admire the view from where you are, you'll never see the point of it all.

The soundscape gives you a sense of motion and movement slowly bobbing up and down around the spoken word, ushering you to get lost in the dreamlike state.

Synthesizers, guitars, effects, mix + mastering engineer. All sounds your ears perceive: TJ Dumser [Six Missing]

Story and Spoken Word: Courtney Sender

Artwork: di7ide

About Courtney:

Courtney Sender’s fiction appears with The Kenyon Review, AGNI, American Short Fiction, Tin House, Slice, The Georgia Review, and many others. Her essays and articles appear in The New York Times’ Modern Love, The Atlantic, The Lily at Washington Post, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and others.

She has won the Graywolf Press first novel chapter contest, the Glimmer Train fiction open, the Boulevard Emerging Writers contest, the Mississippi Review fiction contest, the Lawrence Prize for best story in Michigan Quarterly Review, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival fiction contest, and the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner.

Courtney holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a B.A. from Yale University, and has taught creative writing at both schools. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the George Bennett writer-in-residency at Phillips Exeter Academy, the Sewanee and Virginia Quarterly Review Writers’ Conferences, and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (Rubys Artist Grant).

She also holds a theology degree from Harvard Divinity School.

Her debut story collection, IN OTHER LIFETIMES ALL I’VE LOST COMES BACK TO ME, is coming soon from WVU Press.

Recorded 2022 at Cabin in the Woods Music, Austin, TX

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