Welcome to the seventh short story podcast of Fresh New Shorts.
The Tornado Lovers sprang from an article I’d read about how the language you grow up with wires your brain. English speakers experience a different world than, say, Mandarin speakers or French. This idea then found itself inside an Updike-like premise of a couple with a complex history–both pleasant and painful.
The woman credits learning French for saving her life, rewiring her brain to help her escape cancer. Her pilgrimage to France with her reluctant husband is interrupted by a natural phenomena and a pair of young lovers with risky appetites.
Tornadoes are the terrible children of thunderstorms, caused by warm air rising into storm clouds and being spun by winds. Hurricanes engage far more physics; air pressure, air density and energy, and the spin of the earth. Both are natural phenomena, and both make appearances in the story. There is a guest appearance by another northern lake too, reminiscent of last week’s Cassini’s Daughter.
The Fresh New Shorts project is aimed at providing entertainment while we have more self time on our hands. In addition, we want to raise money to help others. All profits from the eBook sales of “A Physicist’s Guide to Love, and other natural phenomena“, the source for the podcasts, will go to local foodbanks.
Enjoy the storytelling podcasts and stay healthy and safe!
John Blackmore, Writer 