‘Kareem’s heart burned at being outplayed, at so many people being turned against him so easily. He reached the road on which the temple stood, and stopped. “Let me guess, they revived nationalist Odinism,” he said.’
With the advent of time-travel, history itself can be reshaped to fit our highest ideals. There are endless worlds of possibility to be cultivated with care and hope for a brighter future. Trouble is, the fascists have the same technology. Killing Hitler is easy, but how do you kill the ideology of hate?
Show notes:
Killing Hitler is Easy was written by Stewart Hotston (© 2021), and I am proud to be the first to publish it in any format. He also wrote the thoughtful essay Memetic Defences (part 2) to which this story is thematically linked.
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The future:
Killing Hitler is Easy is my thirteenth audio piece as ‘Fine-toothed Comb Productions’, and I’m pretty chuffed with it. I have already recorded and edited my first audio commission: Mari Lwyd by the wonderful Priya Sharma. I shall announce where, when and how you can access that in due course.
After that? Back to writing some Flashes of Inspiration, I think. I’ve loved doing this as a hobby, but the bills won’t pay themselves. As such, I’ll be adding Narration and Audio Editing to the available Services here at The Fine-toothed Comb just as soon as I find time to breathe and look around me once more.
If you are considering joining these fine people in securing my services, then please email me at dion@thefinetoothed.com to discuss your audio project. You can find my relevant Testimonials here.
Sound design and attribution:
Intro and Outro music are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.
My regular Intro music is called The Fifth Life, by Circus Marcus.
My regular Outro music is called Post Bellum, by Dee Yan-Kee.
The sound effects used have all been sourced from Freesound under the same Creative Commons license. They are as follows:
Large office vestibul ST by alexmol
Mowing grass 9624 by soundstack
Opening and closing window by MoniqueKruger
Alien Tech Door Gravity UFO Science Star Treck War by SCICOFILMS.com
Slotted spoon whoosh by saturdaysoundguy
2 men running on pavement passing by 2 by bulbastre
Sussex woodland and meadow bird sounds by Vonora
01219 running through tall grass by Robinhood76
Running through field by 21100306
Dark Teleport by oldestmillennial
Crowd in hall medium reverb by theplax
Windy calm town dec by klankbeeld
Further Reading:
If you enjoyed Killing Hitler is Easy, you may enjoy my other performed readings – available for free on my Audio page.
If you would like me to record some of your work, talk to me via my Contact page.
If you’re a podcaster who wants help editing the audio, I’d be glad to discuss rates and work out a schedule.
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