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The audiobook of I Ridde My Soule of Thee at Laste will be released April 23, 2025 from Budding Grove Audio. It is a novella (short novel), a work of historical fiction that allows us not only to look over the shoulder of William Shakespeare as he works on the King's new bible to give it a voice (secretly, by commission of the King himself), but we are allowed to follow Ben Jonson as he conspires with Robert Cecil and Simon Forman to end the life of Shakespeare following his "retirement." Below is a sample from the Introduction and Prologue of I Ridde My Soule of Thee at Laste. Voice and ambient music.
—Written and read by David Teems.
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May all that has been reduced to noise in you become music again.
—David Teems
"Ray, brother, you are and will remain beautiful in me." Recorded only months before my brother's death.
If I have ever done anything right, if I have done anything of real worth it may be this recording I did for my brother, Ray, who was suffering stage 4 lung cancer at the time. He listened to this often before he died. The message is simple. A challenge for most of us, it encourages you and me to say what needs to be said while there is time to say it. Eulogies are fine. Staring down at a gravesite and saying a few words is medication to us, but does little for the one who is absent. If you love someone, tell them while there is time, when words matter. —David
"Speak what we feel," the poet said, "not what we ought to say"
—William Shakespeare, King Lear
David on National Geographic's ORIGINS. On the capture and martyrdom of William Tyndale.