Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m

In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother’s music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations—before her time runs out. On the morning of Rhea’s eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of coun...

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It was a game at first. To see how many times we could have sex in one twenty-four-hour period. We fucked in the bathroom at the hot shop, and in the backseat of Micah’s green Volvo, and in the prickly bushes of a weekend hike.

I listened to my mother’s Mile High Woman album on loop, remembering Clayton’s words: She said it was the sound of you coming into the world.

The music was grand and bursting with life, the album cover featuring a giant Belle in a flowing white dress reclining in a green valley like a sexy Paul Bunyan.

I imagined growing my baby, and hearing my own choir as the tiny life entered the world. My own little act of creation.