A Recast of ‘Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten’
Works written and produced by Soren Narnia. The text of these stories is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA. Email: songofsadbirds@aol.com -- When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher asked me to sit next to a handicapped kid named Sean and help him along a little if I could. It wasn't easy, because he was quite slow, but I tried. When Sean got especially excited about something, or if he was told he had done something well, he would smile and shout out nonsense words. One of them I remember, which he used to shout many times over the few months I sat beside him, was "Sorinarneeya!" Again and again, it was a harmless word he used when he was happy, and seeing my puzzled expression would just make him say it once more, even more pleased than the first time: "Sorinarneeya!" For some reason that word stuck with me for years, until one day as an adult I realized how neatly and curiously it cut in half. And I thought that was so perfect, how this little gem of a thing had sprung from a bit of the absurd and a bit of the tragic. That seemed like all of life to me: momentary bits of perfection out of all the absurdity and tragedy. And amazingly, they just keep on coming. - SN
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Recastable Episodes (22)
| 1. | A Listing of the Holdings of the National Museum of Romance | March 25, 2015 |
| 2. | Signs Pass By | March 28, 2015 |
| 3. | Loft | April 12, 2015 |
| 4. | 3:13 a.m. | May 1, 2015 |
| 5. | Sketch of a Bird in Flight | June 1, 2015 |
| 6. | Song of the Living Dead | July 27, 2015 |
| 7. | New Players Welcome Here | Aug. 31, 2015 |
| 8. | Toward the Close of November | Sept. 24, 2015 |
| 9. | The Tears of Sisyphus | Nov. 2, 2015 |
| 10. | Objects Found in a Faraway Field | Feb. 1, 2016 |
| 11. | Whatever You Find Within You | April 9, 2016 |
| 12. | An Oral History of Hell | Sept. 12, 2016 |
| 13. | Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever | Feb. 20, 2017 |
| 14. | Three Stories for a Rainy Sunday Afternoon | July 13, 2017 |
| 15. | Joke Meets Ground | Aug. 13, 2017 |
| 16. | If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking | Feb. 8, 2018 |
| 17. | Tyrant, Draw Thy Sword | Sept. 19, 2018 |
| 18. | Town With a Tranquil Name | Oct. 30, 2019 |
| 19. | In the Realm of the Eight Dollar Soda | March 5, 2020 |
| 20. | The Angle of the Light | Feb. 1, 2021 |
| 21. | Little Boy Games | July 11, 2023 |
| 22. | Paintings by Nadia Strause | Aug. 17, 2026 |