Jessica’s Story Time is a weekly reading from a novel by Francis Rosenfeld.
Perfect for listeners who enjoy thoughtful fiction, calm narration, and serialized storytelling, Jessica’s Story Time offers a place to return each week and continue the journey.
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Over the course of a symbolic apprenticeship of a year and a day, guided by her grandmother, Aifa navigates the ceremonies of life, mystical traditions, and the subtle growth of self-awareness.
A Year and A Day crafts a poetic, introspective narrative where tradition, perception, and spiritual insight shape a young girl’s emergence into womanhood.
Door Number Eight
Taylor Bradford arrives at a prestigious college, thrilled and excited to have been admitted, only to become entangled in a cryptic Introduction to Wayfinding Systems class she never enrolled in.
As the boundary between reality and meta-reality begins to blur, this genre-bending thriller redefines the meaning of higher learning: surreal institutional secrets transpire, identity is unraveling, and the price of acquiring wisdom is unexpected.
Nothing seems impossible and no concept should be taken for granted. Not even identity.
The Gates of Horn and Ivory
The Gates of Horn and Ivory is a mythic reimagining of Persephone, the goddess of life's renewal.
Walking in her footsteps, the book follows the goddesses' journey between realms over the course of a year. This narrative invites readers to reflect on themes of sacrifice, identity, and the cyclical nature of existence, all while navigating the complexities of divine and mortal worlds.
The Blue Rose Manuscript
What would you do if after devoting yourself to the study of an ancient manuscript for three whole years you found out you might be the one who actually wrote it? Well, penned it, anyway.
The fantasy novel The Blue Rose Manuscriptis a metaphysical manual for being, a philosophical exploration of authorship, identity, and the underlying patterns of reality.
No adventure is more spellbinding than the epic journey of the mind.
My Dear Fiona
An American anthropologist and her creative sister spend a year in the Orkney Islands trying to locate the burial site of a Viking princess from the 10th century.
For lovers of lyrical prose, My Dear Fiona is a deeply intimate journal of personal transformation, guided by myths and Viking sagas.
The Room In Between
A man wakes in an empty lounge bar with no memory of his past and discovers hidden doors framed in exquisite marquetry. Each panel transports him into disjointed alternate versions of his life, realities where he feels like an imposter, even when surrounded by loved ones.
As he drifts from one uncanny scene to another, his philosophical struggle unfolds, infused with guilt, futile longing, and the surreal distortion of time and identity.