Alicia Atkins
speaker
1,217 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Alicia Atkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
I have to take it back to the house with me cradled under one arm because my hands are full of tools that need returning to the basement.
On the porch, I sit it on a cinder block with the crown of it pointed down and begin to saturate the insides with water.
I make new rules, the way I had more than a decade ago.
1.
Never a flood until a trickle fails.
2.
You will give up your secret in your own time.
3.
This is not a task.
It is a meditation on the meaning of life and death.
I was 28 when I came back to live at home when the markets crashed and I lost my job.
More than that, I lost my career.
And then I lost my desire to find another.
Living with my parents was inconvenient and embarrassing.
Despite the intervening years, returning to their roof and their rules ignited every rebellious teenage instinct I thought I'd grown past.
We fought.
All the time.
I shouted at them, which was new.
Before, I'd always hidden the way I felt and tried to blend into the sofa, my bed, the walls.
Both of my brothers and my elder sister returned too.
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