Hidden Animals
This is a literary fiction podcast in which the host, Andrew St. John, reads short stories he has written and provides a brief discussion about each one. Disclaimer: some of these stories contain material that may be upsetting for some audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
Andrew St. John is a high school English teacher from (near) Atlanta, Georgia.
Hidden Animals
Episode 6: "Gone"
This is the sixth of seven stories in the collection Ripples.
In the aftermath of a serious car accident, Marcie Anderson ruminates on the absence of her husband after their recent divorce, seemingly unaware of a much more immediate and medically urgent loss.
Over the years, she had become accustomed to the emptiness of the house, the silence that collected like dust in the corners, long before he actually left. It wasn’t his absence that grieved her—how can you feel something that isn’t there?—it was the unanswered questions he left behind.
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Ripples
Judas Wept