Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:36:45 -0500 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1858740 en-us © 2026 Be Secret and Exult yes f0be9ce6-0657-58e8-bd33-99021806bea6 Paul H. Curtis episodic false Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Paul H. Curtis https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ock1xl0opkc5jqsd53orko48lfka?.jpg After Dreamland The fourth story in the Comeback series: is it ever really possible to save oneself?  

"Belonging, here, was measured in apocalypses."

]]> The fourth story in the Comeback series: is it ever really possible to save oneself?  

"Belonging, here, was measured in apocalypses."

]]> Paul H. Curtis Buzzsprout-9651815 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:00:00 -0500 2190 1 7 full false The Revelator “'I have been waiting a very long time for you,' she said. 'Hours.'”

A true story about the complicated, painful experience of helping, and being helped.

]]> “'I have been waiting a very long time for you,' she said. 'Hours.'”

A true story about the complicated, painful experience of helping, and being helped.

]]> Paul H. Curtis Buzzsprout-9569075 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0500 1053 1 6 full false We Expect to Be Moving Shortly "What's it say about bears in the contract?"

The third story in the Comeback series, in which transit worker Alvin Alterman wrestles with some of the inconveniences associated with the end of civilization.

]]> "What's it say about bears in the contract?"

The third story in the Comeback series, in which transit worker Alvin Alterman wrestles with some of the inconveniences associated with the end of civilization.

]]> Paul H. Curtis Buzzsprout-9473757 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0400 2662 1 5 full true In the Maybe The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That may be so—but it is also, I would suggest, the definition of love.

A true story about three arrivals in New York City, and everything that followed.

]]> The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That may be so—but it is also, I would suggest, the definition of love.

A true story about three arrivals in New York City, and everything that followed.

]]> Paul H. Curtis Buzzsprout-9385852 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:00:00 -0400 1893 1 4 full false The Forty-Seventh Bird The second story in the Comeback series.

"When you’re young, you trust your parents to know everything, including the names of the dangers in the world, like traffic and pneumonia. Then you get older, like me, and you see how much they haven’t told you. And the question is whether they think they’re protecting you by not telling you these things, or whether they just can’t see what’s really out there in the world."

]]> The second story in the Comeback series.

"When you’re young, you trust your parents to know everything, including the names of the dangers in the world, like traffic and pneumonia. Then you get older, like me, and you see how much they haven’t told you. And the question is whether they think they’re protecting you by not telling you these things, or whether they just can’t see what’s really out there in the world."

]]> Paul Buzzsprout-9319257 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:00:00 -0400 2389 1 3 full false The Comeback The story of a family struggling to adapt amid an ecological anti-catastrophe, an apocalypse of abundance.

"I can almost guarantee you that this will not go wrong."

]]> The story of a family struggling to adapt amid an ecological anti-catastrophe, an apocalypse of abundance.

"I can almost guarantee you that this will not go wrong."

]]> Paul Buzzsprout-9312361 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:00:00 -0400 2222 1 2 full false Be Secret and Exult A true story about answering a ringing pay phone on a lonely San Francisco night, and what it means to be secret and exult.

]]> A true story about answering a ringing pay phone on a lonely San Francisco night, and what it means to be secret and exult.

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