Harvest Home on audio

[altivo]

My story "Harvest Home" about Fennec and Argos in their later years is now up in audio thanks to Khakidoggy and The Voice of Dog. Check out the other authors as well, some great stuff there.

The Voice of Dog: Harvest Home

(Story originally appeared in Fragments of Life's Heart [Weasel Press, 2016])

Comments

[lhexan]

Shakesbear, eh?

I've long been irked by the prevalence of stories about teenagers and youths, particularly in speculative fiction. There are joys and trials reserved for maturity and old age, but they are rarely depicted. Your story is a fine counterexample.

The story effectively characterized its leads with spare details about their homes and interests. The dialogue carried warmth and affection throughout. The last line is powerful and beautiful. Clearly I need to read more of your fiction!

Even love's struggles are joyful, when they resolve happily. I'm aromantic, but there are certain of my friends I've grown to love. One I've told several times. After reading your story last night, my dreams made it clear it was time to tell another. I've done so. Thank you for giving my subconscious a needed jolt.

[altivo]

I'm glad to hear it worked for you. There are other good stories on there, but I'd suggest caution with the "18+" stuff. I found some of that pretty offensive.

So far, Khaki has about a month's worth of material recorded and ready for release, one piece a day. Two more of mine are already somewhere in that queue, and an additional two are waiting to be recorded. I'll be recording one of them myself when I find a quiet enough time to escape background noises.

[lhexan]

This post reminded me that I own Fragments, and I read Harvest Home there. Sadly, audiobooks are incompatible with the way I read. Do you have any other fiction available in print?

[altivo]

Scattered stories and poems are in print on paper, but I'm not sure how many of those are still available for purchase. I think the complete list of all is on Goodreads:

Altivo's author page

Some excerpts and bits that have never made it to print can be found on Furaffinity or Weasyl. One very short piece that tells how Argos received his turquoise bracelet from Fennec when they were young will be coming to The Voice of Dog soon and I do urge you to hear Khaki's reading of it. Only about ten minutes and brilliantly done. The title as presented there is "The Blue Eye of the Desert God."

Alas, because I am lazy and never felt that I had much of an audience, several complete novels sit here unpolished and unpublished. Two of those feature Argos and Fennec, two more feature the same setting but one a hundred years earlier and the other about 80 years after their time.

[lhexan]

I wasn't able to find the list on Goodreads, but I found your FA account. Are you still active enough to see comments that I leave there, or should I leave such comments elsewhere?

I understand how draining it is to lack an audience. By the end of The Ornithopter I was devastated by my friends' indifference to it. Thankfully, I'm just about fully recovered, and I'll start posting on this new journal next January.

If you do finish the Argos/Fennec novels I'd love to see them, as I enjoyed their interactions.

[altivo]

You should get to the Goodreads page just by clicking the link in my previous reply: "Altivo's author page." What error did you get?

I rarely look at FA any more. I became quite tired of their management policies and of the constant parade of pointless pornography. FA is not particularly hospitable to text as opposed to artwork. Weasyl does somewhat better, but even there the visual arts get far more attention. I seriously miss FurRag which was entirely text oriented.

[lhexan]

I went to that page, but didn't see a list of your writing there. There were a half-dozen other lists, but not that one.

I'll just download the stories from FA, and post feedback here on Dreamwidth.

[altivo]

I have an author's page on Amazon as well, but they seem to stop displaying things that have gone "out of print" or that they don't sell any more.

On the page I linked, you scroll down past "Ask the Author" and right under it is a list of "Altivo Overo's books". Since everything is in anthologies, you don't see my name on the cover, only the editor. But I have a story or poem in each of those publications that are listed. (Civilized Beasts is poetry, so my work is only a page or so in each of those.)

Anyway, in addition to FA, you might consider looking at Weasyl, which has some other stuff not on FA.

Altivo on Weasyl.

[lhexan]

I see! I thought those were books you had reviewed. Thanks for the help. I do plan to update my Weasyl account at some point, so I'll check out your stuff there, too.