Bitter Water [Water Library] 🦩

About this episode

Bitter Water is a dystopian tale set in a future Sardinia where a young woman searches for hope amidst a desolate landscape.

"Water used to have no taste. That's what the Elders say, and that's the hardest thing to believe. In a future Sardinia where every surface water is alkaline and corrosive, a young woman leaves the underground vault at dawn, before the UV peaks. She is looking for something. She has rope, smoked glass, and not much else." Bitter Water is a dystopian tale of hope and magic amidst the desolate landscape of the Molentargius Lagoon, which is said to be inhabited by monstrous beings and, perhaps, by sublime creatures as well, which could be the same being. Enter the sonic experience of a post-apocalyptic Sardinia. Created, spoken, produced, edited and mixed by M. Cristina Marras for The Water Library , a storytelling project about water by Irish audio producers Zoë Comyns and Regan Hutchins. Flamingo Lore Flamingo Rising · An Audio RPG by Sardinian Imaginary Games Flamingo Lore is an ongoing body of work set in a dystopian Sardinia where the surface is salt, acid water, and UV, and humans live underground. The world is consistent across pieces, but each work is an independent entry point — a different voice, a different moment in the same collapsed future. Across the work, flamingos…

People in this episode

Host: M. Cristina Marras

Topics covered

• dystopian fiction
• water scarcity
• hope
• magic
• post-apocalyptic
• Sardinia
• flamingos

Keywords

• dystopia
• Sardinia
• water
• hope
• magic
• flamingos
• post-apocalyptic
• Molentargius Lagoon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Water Library, Irish audio producers Zoë Comyns and Regan Hutchins

Books & works: Flamingo Lore, Flamingo Rising

Places: Sardinia, Molentargius Lagoon

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