A Blind Play

From MauHaus Productions comes the anthology narrative podcast series A Blind Play of Social Forces.
Radio Dramas for the 21st Century that explore the human condition and the social forces we must navigate.

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Episodes

Silence

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A childhood memory of a racist encounter is brought to the surface when a young man once again faces a bigot. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” -WB Yeats, The Second Coming In the summer of 1994, I was a college student working as a stocker at Piggly Wiggly in Montevallo, Alabama. I grew up in the South, so racism was not a new concept for me. As a white male, I did not ...

Sep 14, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6

To the Touch

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. After Grace is institutionalized for a potentially dangerous "disorder," she learns to embrace her powers and grow her self-worth. “To The Touch” was published in the 2020 edition of Jelly Bucket Literary Journal under the pseudonym Gina Urban. That year it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. This story grew out of a vision I had of a young woman touching a sheet of glass gently only to watch it shatter under her palm...

Aug 31, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Little Bird

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When triggered by a challenge from her peers, the daughter of a former military interrogator puts her father's inhumane lessons to the test, endangering her friends in order to protect herself. “Little Bird” is adapted from the short story of the same name which won the Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest in 2014. I wrote the first draft of the story in grad school in a class titled The Literature of War. The title c...

Aug 24, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Pal

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old "Kid" takes on the mother role to care for her only father figure, her profoundly disabled step-father Pal. A visit from her classmate Evander, terrified by what he sees in the house, illuminates just how precarious this unconventional relationship is. Pal is adapted from the short story “Pal,” a 2020 finalist for the Bristol Prize in the UK. It was published in the Bristol Pri...

Aug 17, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Platypus

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When awkward teen Joey discovers that Shannon, the girl he is obsessed with is actually a platypus from another planet, he is forced to come to terms with his own definitions of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Our second episode is adapted from the short story “Platypus” which began as a writing challenge in 2014. In the original five-page draft, the main character, Joey, finds a giant eyeball on a beach. After man...

Aug 10, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Introducing A Blind Play of Social Forces

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. "They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces." Richard Wright, Native Son. From Mau Haus Productions comes the anthology podcast series A Blind Play of Social Forces, a collection of short stories about children living in a brutal and unsympathe...

Aug 04, 2022•3 min0

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