Karl Meade - literary, comic podcasts and writing
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HALF-LIFE (0r, Hello My Name is Moses and I Can't Swim)

- A novel soon to be podcast

 

Half-Life tells the story of an ordinary couple who find themselves in the middle of an ordinary life: they're fundamentally unhappy, and afraid to admit it.

 

After all, they should be happy. They're living the expat life in old Europe, Yolanda's a promising artist, and Moses works in a challenging job damming Holland from the waters that threaten it. So what if they haven't had a real conversation in a year, or that it's been raining for two. It's just a phase—his muscle twitches and garbled speech, her migraines and skin rashes, not to mention his somewhat disconcerting habit of walking around while he’s still sleeping—it’s all part of life's precious balance. You take the good with the bad.

 

All seems manageable until Yolanda is run down by a speeding cyclist. Their “happy” life unravels, as a journalist bent on preserving the culture of “Old Holland” uses the accident to incite public outrage against the invasion of foreign technology (such as speeding mountain-bikes), and Moses convinces himself that Yolanda is having an affair, perhaps even with the cyclist who ran her over.

 

Join them in their comic, heartbreaking struggle to discover what or who might make their lives real again.

 

 

 

ODD JOBS - A Novel Podcast

 

Odd Jobs is a comic-caper love-story about Mountie women and layabout men, house and family, script-writers and cat-burglars.

 

A modern tale of movie magic in the wrong hands: the Big Lebowski meets Elmore Leonard's niece.

 

Listen to a podcast, or read it the new fashioned way - free online.

 

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