{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Starlight Express","description":" A terminally ill woman leaves her husband, drives into the flatlands, and runs out of gas at a closed filling station called The Starlight Express \u2014 where she's taken in among the old and the dying and learns the rituals of a burial man's route. The full novella told by the author, read in one sitting. Spare, strange, and image-driven \u2014 bread and water left on porches, graves dug and filled, a house set alight at its owner's last wish \u2014 it's less a story about dying than about tending the dying and being quietly folded in among them. Best heard somewhere quiet, in the dark. ","author_name":"Atoms, Motion and the Void","author_url":"http:\/\/sleeves.libsyn.com","html":"