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LITURAE

Buddug Brenhinesboudicasquest.substack.com
Sink into a sanctuary of story, where the cadence of my voice and the hum of healing tones create a ritual of rest for the grown-up soul. LITURAE isn’t just a podcast. It’s a sonic refuge. A literary balm. A soft place to land.

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Episodes

Observations from my latest shadow work

TW: I don’t speak upon my trauma but if you are easily triggered skip this~ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

Jul 07, 2025

OF HONOR AND VENGEANCE: Mateo Falcone | PROSPER MÉRIMÉE

#ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: boudicasquest.carrd.co Visit my online store: ablissattire.com If it soothes you, share it. If it stirs you, say so. Follow where you listen. Subscribe where you watch. Let the quiet carry the story forward. Classic tales. Calming tones. Crafted for quiet. Enter the chamber of LITURAE. For LITURAE , I read classic short stories aloud, paired with healing frequencies and soft music to calm the mind and soothe the soul. Tonight’s tale...

Jun 02, 202537 min

A JOURNEY OF KINDNESS: Alyosha the Pot | LEO TOLSTOY

#ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep #soundhealing Explore more on my website: boudicasquest.carrd.co Visit my online store: ablissattire.com If it soothes you, share it.If it stirs you, say so.Follow where you listen. Subscribe where you watch.Let the quiet carry the story forward. Classic tales. Calming tones. Crafted for quiet.Enter the chamber of LITURAE. For LITURAE , I read classic short stories aloud, paired with healing frequencies and soft music to calm the mind and soothe the soul. Toni...

May 19, 202516 min

VIRTUE AND HYPOCRISY: Boule de Suif | GUY DE MAUPASSANT

#SOOTHESAYS #ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: [Buddug's Circle]( https://buddugscircle.com/ ) Visit my online store [Abliss Attire]( https://ablissattire.com/ ) For The Love of Literature with Buddug Brenhines is your retreat for relaxation and peaceful sleep. Here, I read classic literature in a gentle, soothing manner, accompanied by background frequencies designed to promote DNA repair. Each episode is crafted from the bottom of my heart to bring love and healing...

Jan 15, 20252 hr

LIFE AND TRANSCENDENCE: Gusev | ANTON CHEKHOV

#SleepStories #ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: Buddug's Circle Visit my online store Abliss Attire For The Love of Literature with Buddug Brenhines is your retreat for relaxation and peaceful sleep. Here, I read classic literature in a gentle, soothing manner, accompanied by background frequencies designed to promote DNA repair. Each episode is crafted from the bottom of my heart to bring love and healing to all who listen, comment, like, and subscribe. Tonight's j...

Dec 20, 202447 min

REALITY AND ILLUSION: The Real Thing | HENRY JAMES

#SleepStories #ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: [Buddug's Circle]( https://buddugscircle.com/ ) Visit my online store [Abliss Attire]( https://ablissattire.com/ ) For The Love of Literature with Buddug Brenhines is your retreat for relaxation and peaceful sleep. Here, I read classic literature in a gentle, soothing manner, accompanied by background frequencies designed to promote DNA repair. Each episode is crafted from the bottom of my heart to bring love and heali...

Aug 31, 20241 hr 26 min

DESPAIR AND SOLACE: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway

#SleepStories #ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: [Buddug's Circle]( https://buddugscircle.com/)Visit my online shop: [Abliss Attire]( https://ablissattire-shop.fourthwall.com/ ) For The Love of Literature with Buddug Brenhines is your retreat for relaxation and peaceful sleep. Here, I read classic literature in a gentle, soothing manner, accompanied by background frequencies designed to promote DNA repair. Each episode is crafted from the bottom of my heart to bring ...

Aug 17, 202413 min

REBELLION AND YOUTH: A & P, by John Updike

#SleepStories #ClassicLiterature #PodcastForSleep Explore more on my website: Buddug's Circle Visit my online shop: Abliss Attire For The Love of Literature with Buddug Brenhines is your retreat for relaxation and peaceful sleep. Here, I read classic literature in a gentle, soothing manner, accompanied by background frequencies designed to promote DNA repair. Each episode is crafted from the bottom of my heart to bring love and healing to all who listen, comment, like, and subscribe. Tonight's j...

Aug 13, 202425 min

The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata

"The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" is a short story by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. Kawabata, born in 1899 and died in 1972, is one of Japan's most renowned writers. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, becoming the first Japanese author to receive this honor. His works are known for their poetic and delicate prose, often exploring themes of beauty, loss, and the transience of life. The story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" is part of his collection *Palm-of-the-Hand St...

Jun 08, 202413 min

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

"The Garden Party" a short story first published in 1922. The story centers on Laura Sheridan, a young girl from an affluent family, who experiences a range of emotions and revelations when a garden party coincides with the death of a working-class neighbor. Mansfield's narrative explores themes of class consciousness, innocence, and the complexities of human empathy. Katherine Mansfield was a prominent modernist writer from New Zealand, known for her short stories that often explore complex emo...

Jun 01, 202449 min

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

" A Hunger Artist " (German: "Ein Hungerkünstler") is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist ( Ein Hungerkünstler ), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at ...

May 11, 202435 min

Mrs Frola and Mr Ponza her Son-in-Law by Luigi Pirandello

#bedtimestories #shortstories #grownups • BACKGROUND • Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's trag...

Apr 06, 202432 min

Araby by James Joyce

" Araby " is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners . The story traces a young boy's infatuation with his friend's sister. Through first-person narration, the reader is immersed at the start of the story in the drab life that people live on North Richmond Street, which seems to be illuminated only by the verve and imagination of the children who, despite the growing darkness that comes during the winter months, insist on playing "until [their] bodies glowed". Eve...

Mar 30, 202421 min

Mrs Frola and Mr Ponza, Her Son-in-Law by Luigi Pirandello | Incl. 10kHz for Healing

Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre...

Mar 23, 202432 min

The Prussian Officer, by DH Lawrence

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories by D. H. Lawrence . It was published by Duckworth in London on 26 November 1914, and in America by B. W. Huebsch in 1916. The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is inv...

Feb 10, 20241 hr 15 min

The Path to The Cemetary by Thomas Mann

"The Road to the Churchyard" ( German : Der Weg zum Friedhof ) is a short story by Thomas Mann . It initially appeared in 1900 in Simplicissimus and then in 1903 in an anthology of Mann's six short stories, entitled Six Novellen . It was published in 1922 as "The Way to the Churchyard" in Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter 's translation of Mann's Stories of Three Decades , and in 1988 in Death in Venice and Other Stories , translated by David Luke . It has also been translated as "The Path to the Cemetery...

Jan 20, 202434 min

The Egg by Sherwood Anderson

The Triumph of the Egg (full title: The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems ) is a 1921 short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson . It was Anderson's third book to be published by B.W. Huebsch and his second collection after the successful short story cycle Winesburg, Ohio . The book contains 15 stories preceded by photographs of seven clay sculptures by Anderson's wife at the time, sculptor Tennessee Mitchell, that were inspired ...

Jan 06, 202435 min

A Pair of Silk Stockings by ⁠Kate Chopin

" A Pair of Silk Stockings " is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin . The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children. Mrs. Sommers comes into the small fortune of $15. After a few days of reflection, she decides to use the money to purchase clothing for her children so they may look "fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives." That narrative suggests that Mrs. Sommers had been before her marriage a wealthy woman, but now "need...

Dec 31, 202323 min

Berneice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Bernice Bobs Her Hair " is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald . It was first published in May 1920 in the Saturday Evening Post . The original publication was illustrated by May Wilson Preston . The work later appeared in the September 1920 short story collection Flappers and Philosophers . Fitzgerald's story follows the plight of a mixed-race Native American girl named Bernice from rural Eau Claire, Wisconsin , who visits her beautiful and sophisticated white cousin Marjorie in the city. In...

Dec 23, 20231 hr 10 min

PAUL'S CASE by Willa Cather

#bedtime #bedtimestories #spiritualalchemy "Paul's Case" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in McClure's Magazine in 1905 under the title "Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament", which was later shortened. It also appeared in a collection of Cather's stories, The Troll Garden (1905). For many years "Paul's Case" was the only one of her stories that Cather allowed to be anthologized. New York City was historically known as a destination for those seeking adventure and new oppo...

Dec 16, 20231 hr 4 min

The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser

#bedtime #bedtimestories #spiritualalchemy Henry Reifsneider was born on a rural farm in the American Midwest where the population is steadily decreasing. His family lived on it for generations, but his children either have moved away or have died. Henry’s farm, which he and his wife, Phoebe, now maintain, is in decline. The buildings and even the furniture inside the house are in decay. The fields produce poorly; the animals decrease in number each year; and the apple orchard, full of gnarled o...

Dec 02, 20231 hr 4 min

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce⁠

" An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge " (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce . Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending . Bierce...

Oct 28, 202332 min

TO BUILD A FIRE by Jack London

" To Build a Fire " is a short story by American author Jack London . There are two versions of this story. The first one was published in 1902, and the other was published in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, while the 1902 story is less well known. The 1908 version is about an unnamed male protagonist who ventures out in the subzero boreal forest of the Yukon Territory . He is followed by a native dog and is en route to visit his friends—ignoring warning...

Oct 21, 202358 min

The Lady with the Toy Dog, by Anton Chekov

Two lovers find difficulty as they discover themselves ~ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

Aug 07, 202358 min

A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Two lovers must make a choice for their hearts ~ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

Jun 21, 202347 min

A White Heron, by Sara Orne Jewett

a shy girl discovers the world ~ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

May 30, 202341 min

The Private History Of A Campaign That Failed, by Mark Twain

i'm a few days late with this one, but i hope you'll be forgiving. i read this in my relaxed, narrative style—but this doesn't do much for the humor in this story This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

May 11, 20231 hr 6 min

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, by Stephen Crane

A newly-married couple come home to a worrying situation This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

Apr 29, 202338 min

Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A tale of mystery and danger, as a man seeks to find a pure and noble heart This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boudicasquest.substack.com

Apr 22, 202342 min
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