Stella's Constellation: An Audio Drama

Alternative Stories and Fake Realities

Season: 4 Episode: 4

Published on Mar 5th at 4:00am

In a small alpine village Stella contemplates her strange life and origins as a number of mysterious events unfold around her.  Stella's Constellation is a magical realist story by Swiss American author TAK Erzinger.

In Stella’s Constellation by TAK Erzinger you heard 
Sadie Pepperrell as Stella,
Simone Low as the Narrator
Marie Claire Wood as Lagrimas
Rhys Anderson as Jurgen 

 Music, sound design, direction and soundscapes were by Chris Gregory
Nana De Falla was sung by Marie-Claire Wood
Sound effects were from freesound.org
The presenter in this edition is Kelli Winkler

TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. Her poetry has been featured in Bien Acompañada from Cornell University, The Muse from McMaster University, The Galway Review, River South from Wilkes University and more. Her debut poetry collection entitled, “Found: Between the Trees” was published by Grey Border Books, in Canada in 2019 and her forthcoming poetry book “At the Foot of the Mountain” is being published by Floricanto Press.  The audio drama you just heard, “Stella’s Constellation” is an excerpt from a book she is currently writing under the same title, inspired by magical realism and the folklore of South America and central Europe.  She lives in a Swiss valley with her husband and cats.

 You can find out more about TAK by visiting her website and following her on social media 
 https://takerzinger.wixsite.com/poet

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In the coming weeks on alternative stories we have poetry, conversation and more audio drama for you.  Our poetry content for season 4 will begin with a podcast featuring Katrina Naomi and also include poems from Gregory Leadbetter and Geraldine Clarkson in the coming weeks.  We have a discussion on folklore and its relevance to modern audiences coming soon as well as new audio drama from Chris Beckett, Emily Inkpen, Fiona Mountain and Anna Chorlton.  Subscribe to Alternative Stories and Fake Realities in your favourite podcast app to have all new editions delivered directly to your feed and to gain access to our growing library of drama, poetry and fiction podcasts.