Audiobook (Fiction) – Calm, clear, resonant, subtle, wistful

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Description

A brief excerpt from Tobias Wolff's short story \"Bullet in the Brain\" (adult contemporary short fiction).

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
it is worth noting what Anders did not remember. Given what he did remember, he did not remember his first lover, Sherry, or what he had most madly loved about her before it came to irritate him. Her unembarrassed carnality. Anders did not remember his wife, whom he had also loved before she exhausted him with her predictability, or his daughter. Now with sullen professor of economics at Dartmouth, he did not remember standing just outside his daughter's door as she lectured her bare about his naughtiness and describe the truly appalling punishments pause would receive unless he changed his ways. Anders did not remember his dying mother, saying of his father, I should have stabbed him in his sleep. Nor did Anders remember seeing a woman leapt to her death from the building opposite his own, just days after his daughter was born. He did not remember shouting Lord have mercy. He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. This is what he remembered heat