I Go to Prepare a Place for You | Litro Lab Podcast

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  1. There are mai tais. I’ve never seen you with a mai tai, don’t know what even goes in a mai tai, but the mai tais are there for me. They’re there so you have something to make fun of me for, a brand new reason to laugh: “You concoct a dream world for me and don’t bring bourbon? It’s as if you don’t know me at all” – but I do. I do know you and you love fruity drinks; you just won’t admit it ’cause you’re a man.
  2. There are umbrellas. Not just the kind that go in your drink, right arm reaching even now toward the table to move the one in yours up and down (“see, I knew you’d love it” — you just shake your head), but the kind of umbrella we sit under: not to block the rain, but the sun. I like sitting in the shade and if you’ll admit it, so do you…
Terena Elizabeth Bell

Our latest podcast is experimental in structure and deeply emotive in its narration and themes – we present “I Go to Prepare a Place for You”, written and performed by Terena Elizabeth Bell.

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About Terena Elizabeth Bell

Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit), is forthcoming December 2022. Her work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including The Atlantic, Playboy, MysteryTribune, and Santa Monica Review. A Sinking Fork, Kentucky native, she lives in New York. Fund future writing at buymeacoffee.com/terenabell.

Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit), is forthcoming December 2022. Her work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including The Atlantic, Playboy, MysteryTribune, and Santa Monica Review. A Sinking Fork, Kentucky native, she lives in New York. Fund future writing at buymeacoffee.com/terenabell.

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