Lagoon [Columbia Radio Race] 🦩

Lagoon [Columbia Radio Race] 🦩

From Art, in all the wrong places by M. Cristina Marras

May 19, 2026 · 2 min · Episode 76

About this episode

Lagoon continues the story of survival in a dystopian Sardinia, exploring themes of beauty and danger through the lens of flamingos.

The salt is blinding. The provisions are half gone. There is no turning back. Lagoon picks up where Bitter Water ends: the vault is behind her, the liquid expanse is ahead, and the white formations on the horizon may or may not be what the Elders described. The surface is hostile: quicksand beneath the salt crust, acid water, beasts adapted to sulfureous ponds. She keeps moving. Above the white formations, the sky is doing something she has no word for. The Elders said the phoenicotterius stood still as statues in the Molentargius Lagoon, long necks bent to the water. So beautiful you felt a shiver in your bones. She needs to feel that shiver. Lagoon is a solo voice, created, spoken, produced, edited and mixed by M. Cristina Marras for the Columbia Radio Race. Flamingo Lore Flamingo Rising · An Audio RPG by Sardinian Imaginary Games Bitter Water 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 shift roles…

People in this episode

Host: M. Cristina Marras

Topics covered

  • dystopian narrative
  • survival
  • mythology
  • environment
  • flamingos

Keywords

  • dystopia
  • Sardinia
  • flamingos
  • survival
  • environment
  • audio narrative

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lagoon, Bitter Water, Flamingo Lore, Flamingo Rising

Places: Molentargius Lagoon, Sardinia

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