Short Flights

audiobook

Short Flights

by Meredith Nicholson

EN·~57 minutes·67 chapters

Chapters

67 total
1

SHORT FLIGHTS

0:16
2

TO THE SEASONS.

1:19
3

SONG.

0:48
4

’TIS NEVER NIGHT IN LOVE’S DOMAIN.

1:15
5

ESTRANGED.

0:39
6

WHEN FRIENDS ARE PARTED.

0:48
7

WHEREAWAY.

1:18
8

A SECRET.

0:54
9

DISAPPOINTMENT.

0:13
10

STRIVING.

0:42

Description

A lyrical journey unfolds as a solitary voice weaves together the rhythms of nature, love, and memory. Through vivid seasonal imagery—spring’s quickening heartbeat, summer’s ripe abundance, autumn’s solemn winds, and winter’s hardening resolve—the narrator asks what it means to belong and to be remembered.

The work shifts between intimate reflections on friendship’s endurance and the quiet ache of loss, using the flight of birds and the turning of the year as gentle metaphors. Poetic fragments echo the paradox of joy and sorrow, suggesting that even in darkness there is a persistent, hopeful refrain.

With a tone that feels both reverent and conversational, the piece invites listeners to linger on each line, to hear the music in the juxtaposition of gladness and grief. It offers a meditative space where the listener can contemplate the cycles of life and the enduring echo of love’s domain.

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Language

en

Duration

~57 minutes (55K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)

Release date

2020-12-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Meredith Nicholson

Meredith Nicholson

1866–1947

Best known for brisk, popular novels like The House of a Thousand Candles, this Indiana writer moved easily between journalism, fiction, politics, and diplomacy. His work helped define a lively chapter in Midwestern literary life at the start of the 20th century.

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