Aaron Smith
speaker
2,298 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Aaron Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
He still wanted to until the woman turned to him and said, with so many people showing up, we're stretching it pretty thin.
But we got chili dogs and ice cream anyway.
We splurged.
The way someone had carefully trimmed the yard with its small, parched lawn and strung balloons on a clothesline suddenly filled him with pity.
Faith showed itself in the ribcage.
Its bones were visible.
He could see them beneath the too small bodice of the woman's dress.
Faith resided there, under the shriveled and lost left nipple.
He liked music.
He liked hearing it while he worked.
And now he owned the store, although for an hour or two each night, he was both blind and mad and believed in kings and believed he was a king.
And it never once entered his mind that the pencil balanced between the pulse of his temple and his ear had been invented long after the deaths of kings.
After they had done the scene, he would remember who he was again.
An ordinary man who knew it and would have been insane because of knowing it if he could not crawl toward Dover on his knees.
He couldn't act.
When he dressed in weeds, his temple garment showed under them.
One day he pretended he was a king who had disguised himself as the owner of a record store.
The king sold 18 new Donny and Marie's before he abdicated his vinyl throne and went home.
If he fell from a high place, it would be a canyon wall he thought he remembered well enough to climb alone.
The water in the stream beneath him would wrinkle and whiten over the rocks as it always had, and the trees rushing toward him would show him only that they could not help it.
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