The Elixir of Life

White Ash Flies closes out this St. Patrick's Day with The Dead, a short story by James Joyce, from his collection, Dubliners. Read by Colin Mahoney.

Zander’s Sunday Sauce: Tonight we’re serving up Psalm 22 from the Revised Standard Version of the Old Testament, which could fairly be called a lamentation with ramifications.

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander’s Appendix following up on our previous episode: Another set of three shorter poems, written and read by Colin Mahoney: 4 min, 25 sec - He Named His Boat Clover 5 min, 15 sec - The Strange Death of the Count de Foix 7 min, 38 sec - A Letter From Here

White Ash Flies opens its fourth season with another installment of Zander's Appendix, an occasional series of original work, featuring three short poems written and read by Colin Mahoney. 4 min, 10 sec - Monday with Dad 6 min, 53 sec - Ecce Homo 8 min, 23 sec - The Agency to End Agency 4 min, 10 sec

White Ash Flies Presents The Elixir of Life, a short story by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), translated by Clara Bell, and read by Colin Mahoney.

White Ash Flies presents The Sorrows of Niobe, from Book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, published in 8 CE, in which the goddess Latona makes Niobe pay dearly for her presumption, just as in the preceding story, Arachne was punished by Minerva for her presumption: surpassing the goddess in a weaving competition. The translation into English from Latin is Arthur Golding’s, published in 1567.

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: The House of the Stare and Will You Join My Carpool?, written and read by Colin Mahoney. 4 min, 40 sec, The House of the Stare 8 min, 15 sec, Will You Join My Carpool?

White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Psalm 17, translated by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), read by Colin Mahoney.

On this Valentine's Day, White Ash Flies presents Cyclops in Love: Idyll XI of Theocritus (c. 270 BC), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and read by Colin Mahoney.

White Ash Flies presents Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, read by Colin Mahoney.