All Spikes and No Majesty

Bloodline

Sometimes, enough is enough but it's hard to tell where the line is. And sometimes, there's no two ways about it. What starts with an episode of Story Corps ends with a needle in a biohazardous waste bin. This is Bloodline on The Nth Degree. With music by Rosalyn Magnatta, from an EP available on her soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rosalyn-magnatta

Lessons in Lip Reading

From a strip club to a gas station, this episode explores the weird and personal memories that come up in the grieving process. Eventually, grief has a way of fitting itself into a person's life like it was always there. This story, Lessons in Lip Reading, takes a humorous and surprisingly light-hearted look at memories that have come up for me over the years of digesting the loss of my mom.

Conversation with: Mom

When my mom died, I somehow had the foresight to export the text messages with her that were on my burner phone. This is the story of how that idea came about, and what happened after I got the 219-page PDF. Written and read by Natalie Patton with music composed for the episode by Phil Giraldi.

All Spikes and No Majesty

There's a curious cactus in a nondescript pot. And then there's the strange ritual of collecting a body. This continues this season of The Nth Degree exploring death and grief and all the confusing details therein.

Part 3: The Slippery Nature of Time

With words by Natalie Patton and music bed by the band Scale Worms, this story is a meditation on time, memory and loss told across three parts. Here: part 3 of "The Slippery Nature of Time." The conclusion to this story digs deeper into the pain of loss and the euphoria of life. While the story isn't tied up neatly with a bow, it does come to some kind of more full understanding.