The Oddcast: Tales of the Occult, Weird, and Arcane
Episode 29: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
13 Jun 2020
Originally published in the October edition of New Dimensions 3 in 1973. The story was nominated for the Locust Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short story in the same year.The utopian Omelas enjoys its annual summer festival amid the dark secret that is kept within a broom closet of a cellar beneath one of the richest buildings of the city.Narration, Music, Sound Design by Jon Fredette.
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