“The Ward Organist”: Award-winning Fiction in Winter 2022 Issue

“Never learn to play the organ, the old woman told me. I should call her Sister something, but I don’t remember her last name. Never learn to play, she told me. Once you do you’re stuck.

I don’t remember what I replied. Probably said something like, it doesn’t sound so bad. Said there were worse things to be.

I was in my mid-­twenties. I was unmarried and working as a database manager for a small nonprofit, so I guess they thought I had the time to learn.

They weren’t wrong.”

So begins “The Ward Organist” an award-winning piece from William Morris now in lovely audio form as our Dialogue Out Loud #38. Listen in.