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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: Sa Cabaneta & Provincetown

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Saying farewell to summer with a lazy day in Mallorca, and a blustery night in Massachusetts. “3 p.m. in Sa Cabaneta” and “7:10 p.m. in Provincetown” were edited by Aube Rey Lescure. Both essays originally appeared in Off Assignment literary magazine.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it is me Dylan. So every Tuesday this month we've been

0:08.7

running stories from the literary journal off assignment and today we have our final installment.

0:14.5

I hope you've enjoyed all these pieces as much as I have.

0:16.8

They've been such little Sonic journeys to go on.

0:20.2

So today we've got two short essays for you. First you will be transported to a long lazy day in Myorca.

0:28.0

And then a farewell to summer from one of summer's hottest destinations.

0:35.0

Okay, here is today's episode.

0:37.0

For the last time this month, Atlas Obscura goes off assignment. 3 p.m. in a cabaneta is when your brother cleans the pool.

0:50.0

He calls the dead leaves into the net and throws them

0:56.2

over the hatch. When he's done, he walks into the house and the air crles where he just stood.

1:06.0

You are 12 years old and lying on the floor in your room.

1:10.0

Dropping palms outside the window cast an idle shadow play on your walls.

1:14.8

Everything you see is strange and echoed and muted

1:20.0

as if you were looking through the water at the bottom of a deep slow sea.

1:25.0

Every day you wake up late and tired because of the heat.

1:31.0

Before you leave the bed, you make plans for the day,

1:35.0

but the sun soon turns them to vapor.

1:38.0

Your parents say you should try to enjoy yourself more.

1:41.0

Get the most out of your stay here, they say.

1:45.0

You'd rather they left you at home and let you play with your friends till the summer ended.

1:51.0

But you are here in this old rented house full of belongings of people you've never met.

1:57.0

You sleep in the beds, eat from the plates and lounge in the launchers.

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