Beau Kalden
@shortinteresting.bsky.social
This podcast brings you short readings from old / weird / interesting texts. New episodes every Thursday - for free. Available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and iHeartRadio. Contact us at podcast@plutocrat.biz
'Stool'
Nothing is in situ, everything is in motion,
and the seated must prepare for the next moment where the memory of leisure is burned in neurotic effigy.
The stool abides these truths.
Nothing is in situ, everything is in motion,
and the seated must prepare for the next moment where the memory of leisure is burned in neurotic effigy.
The stool abides these truths.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
'Stool'
Nothing is in situ, everything is in motion,
and the seated must prepare for the next moment where the memory of leisure is burned in neurotic effigy.
The stool abides these truths.
Nothing is in situ, everything is in motion,
and the seated must prepare for the next moment where the memory of leisure is burned in neurotic effigy.
The stool abides these truths.
'Mouldering Corpse'
Here lies a humanoid
who'd have never guessed their torso would shelter dust from the gills of tiny mushrooms
but should have.
Here lies a humanoid
who'd have never guessed their torso would shelter dust from the gills of tiny mushrooms
but should have.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
'Mouldering Corpse'
Here lies a humanoid
who'd have never guessed their torso would shelter dust from the gills of tiny mushrooms
but should have.
Here lies a humanoid
who'd have never guessed their torso would shelter dust from the gills of tiny mushrooms
but should have.
'Sandstone'
Rock is eroded to sand,
sand is blown into lakes,
lakes are buried in mud,
and mud crushes sand to rock.
Earth
is rearranged.
Rock is eroded to sand,
sand is blown into lakes,
lakes are buried in mud,
and mud crushes sand to rock.
Earth
is rearranged.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
'Sandstone'
Rock is eroded to sand,
sand is blown into lakes,
lakes are buried in mud,
and mud crushes sand to rock.
Earth
is rearranged.
Rock is eroded to sand,
sand is blown into lakes,
lakes are buried in mud,
and mud crushes sand to rock.
Earth
is rearranged.
Shout out to @kaye.zone whose own Halloween readings were one of the main inspirations for creating this podcast.
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Shout out to @kaye.zone whose own Halloween readings were one of the main inspirations for creating this podcast.
What an interesting recommendation for my podcast about old public-domain books. I should give that a read.
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What an interesting recommendation for my podcast about old public-domain books. I should give that a read.
I've got only one podcast. It's short, no ads, and here's the best part: listenership is minuscule.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've got only one podcast. It's short, no ads, and here's the best part: listenership is minuscule.
Kaye's Halloween Readings were one of my direct inspirations for starting this podcast.
Particularly the 2023 reading of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony." That's a favorite.
Particularly the 2023 reading of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony." That's a favorite.
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Kaye's Halloween Readings were one of my direct inspirations for starting this podcast.
Particularly the 2023 reading of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony." That's a favorite.
Particularly the 2023 reading of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony." That's a favorite.
This may be the most deranged sentence I've ever read in any book.
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This may be the most deranged sentence I've ever read in any book.