In the future, Big Brother is watching, but he misses a private rebellion in the elevator.

And in the present, Hugh Dansey reads a story about a secret room and that weird guy from

college who can't stop talking about Vincent Van Gogh.

Join me, Meg Wallitzer, for stories about secret spaces and what they hold.

Stay with me for a look inside.

You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors transport us through

the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

Shhh.

I'm your host, Meg Wallitzer.

I'm talking to you from an unknown location, the fortress of solitude, the secret garden,

or it might just be my closet.

But wherever I am, it's a secret space.

And that's the theme of this week's selected shorts.

The stories in this hour each feature some kind of private or outright hidden area.

What the characters hide in that space or what the space might be hiding from them is the

crux here.

Geotracking makes disappearing pretty difficult these days, and even from my fortress

of solitude, I still might be tweeting about my breakfast of overnight oats.

So it's tantalizing to imagine there are still real hidden places in which mysterious

things happen.

I've often had that dream about finding a wing in my apartment that I never knew about.

Have you had that dream?

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