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Dark Tome

The Green Knight's Wife, by Kat Howard

Dark Tome

Realm

Arts, Drama, Performing Arts, Fiction

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

"The boys arrive with the changing of the weather, ushered in by winter’s cold. Once a year, at the beginning of December, those silly boys who think coming here means they are brave. All of them so eager to test their worth on the edge of my husband’s axe." For this winter's solstice, we dramatize a sharp (ha, ha) story by Kat Howard ( http://www.kathowardbooks.com/ & @katwithsword) that subverts the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. What happens when the Green Knight's Wife has a chance to tell the story? Feat. Moira Driscoll, William Dufris, Stephen McLaughlin, and Thomas Campbell. Sound design by Rory O'Shea with music by Blue Dot Sessions ( http://www.sessions.blue/) , Mind's Eye Productions, & AudioJungle. Produced & Directed by Fred Greenhalgh, originally appearing in Uncanny Magazine - https://uncannymagazine.com/article/green-knights-wife/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's May Whitman, and I play Frankie in the new realm podcast, The Sisters.

0:08.0

The Sisters is about a museum curator of medical oddities, who investigates the origins of a mutated skeleton with two layers of bones.

0:17.0

Soon, she uncovers an extraordinary mystery that connects her present with one family's tragic past

0:23.6

in hauntingly dangerous ways.

0:25.8

Listen to The Sisters, wherever you get your podcasts. Realm presents a Dagaz media production, The Dark Tome, Book of Stories,

0:49.4

featuring The Green Knight's Wife by Cat Howard, performed by Moira Driscoll. The boys arrive with the changing of the weather ushered in by

1:09.6

winter's cold. Once a year at the beginning of December, those silly boys who think coming

1:16.7

here means they are brave, all of them so eager to test their worth on the edge of my husband's axe.

1:26.5

For years and forever and for always,

1:29.4

through one story and into the next,

1:32.3

they have been as regular as the snowfall these boys.

1:37.2

They come in their shining armor, their expensive suits, their television good looks, alien things among all this green wildness, this

1:46.8

unchanging cathedral of my husband's making. He feels more comfortable in a place that is like him, forest, secret, overgrown.

1:58.9

No one ever asked me what my comforts were, whether I wanted to press myself to Holly and Thorn in my marriage

2:07.4

bed, he gives the boys a year and a day to arrive.

2:12.3

My husband does.

2:14.0

I like to make it fair for them.

2:16.0

As he laughs, oak leaves fall from his beard.

2:23.0

Hollyberries roll red and fall to the floor like drops of blood.

2:28.0

I do not believe him.

2:31.0

I am also in edge that those boys must test themselves against. Here are the rules

2:38.9

for the game my husband plays. It begins at the heart of winter, the ending of the year at the

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