Amy Ryan
speaker
134 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 May
Amy Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now that he heard his joke out loud, though, he realized that he had failed to convey the necessary context.
Through Anna's puzzled expression, he understood that his comment had been unpleasantly random and that now his unassuming demeanor might seem almost ominous to a young woman in the city.
He thought of the short biographical sketches you tended to get about serial killers from their former neighbors.
He was a little awkward, but we never expected anything like this.
Anna was smiling at him the way he'd seen her greet their more eccentric neighbors after two of them had moved out to the suburbs.
In his mind, he saw her waving to Mr. Trembly, the retiree who had a habit of wearing a cape whenever he mowed the lawn.
It was clear he approached his return this night too frivolously.
The way his wife was looking at him made it apparent that their life together, which he'd spent decades relying on as an incontrovertible fact, had in reality been little more than a play of luck.
Now that their love existed only in the future, it was infinitely vulnerable to deviation.
Already he had jeopardized it with a single joke.
Anna, his only source of happiness amidst the unending humiliations and hardships of adulthood, had been reduced to mere potential by one dumb line that he thought might make her laugh.
"'Are you all right?'
she said, since he had not said anything else for quite some time.
"'I should apologize,' he said.
"'That was meant to be a joke.'
It was this admission.'
Or maybe his seriousness as he said it that finally didn't make her laugh.
All out, head back, one hand on her hip.
She put her other hand on his shoulder.
Oh, she said, you poor thing.
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