HIGH DIVE and other things that could have happened

Honestly? Did that really happen? As storyteller Bill Harley states, “The more I tell it, the truer it gets.” Whether he talking about summoning the courage to dive from the high board for the first time or choosing the perfect valentine for a friend or being lost on a field trip to the state house, Harley’s stories smack of the boy in the class who always gets himself into a fix. As narrator, Harley lives the experience. Listeners are with him as he takes a nervous peek over the edge of the high dive, breathless and in agony (he needs the bathroom); with him as he is embarrassingly discovered in a pricker bush by his mother; with him as a tour guide endlessly intones the details of the law-making process. Original songs frame the stories. A.R. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2012]