"And now the piece de resistance," the old Colonel announced, leading his younger guest to a sunlit garden. "What do you think?" he enquired, waving his walking stick at the garden's centrepiece. There stood a life-size marble sculpture of a man and woman, hands caressing each other, lips fused in a kiss.

A Moving Sculpture is a short story from TallAndTrue.com, written and narrated by Robert Fairhead.

Read A Moving Sculpture: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/short-stories/a-moving-sculpture

Podcast website: https://www.tallandtrueshortreads.com

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Buy Robert's short story collections online:

• Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Fairhead/e/B086HZ36NM

• Rakuten Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/author/robert-fairhead

Podcast Theme and Sound Effects

Royalty-free music from Pixabay.org: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale' – IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non Troppo, performed by Karine Gilanyan.

Sound effects licensed under Creative Commons 0 from FreeSound.org.

• Walking on gravel driveway: https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494571/

• Walking stick tapping: https://freesound.org/people/pikachu09/sounds/204605/

• Bell: https://freesound.org/people/WebbFilmsUK/sounds/200318/

• Outgoing call: https://freesound.org/people/aldenb4610/sounds/348584/

• Phone pickup: https://freesound.org/people/MootMcnoodles/sounds/444399/

• Pouring water into glass: https://freesound.org/people/FillSoko/sounds/257957/

• Owl hoot: https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/465697/

• Squeaky hinge: https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/515289/

• Shovel dropped on concrete: https://freesound.org/people/jackofall29/sounds/503756/

Production Notes

Tall And True Short Reads produced using Audacity. Thanks to Josh (VoiceOverMaster) Meyer for Audacity recording tips and tricks.

Podcast recorded in Sydney, Australia, on the land of the traditional custodians of the Eora Nation.

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