Gift of Fire & On the Head of a Pin (Crosstown to Oblivion) – Walter Mosley Free Audiobook

Written by Walter Mosley
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Two short novels by Walter Mosley

The Gift of Fire
Read by Beresford Bennett

In ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire – an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As punishment, Prometheus was bound to a rock. But in The Gift of Fire, those chains cease to be, and the great champion of man walks form that immortal prison into present-day South Central Los Angeles. Disheveled and lost, he is thrown in jail, where he meets life long criminal Nosome Blane. Shocked at what humanity has done with his gift, he looks for another way to empower his cause. His only hope lies with Nosome’s bedridden fourteen year old nephew, Chief Reddy, who is anointed with Prometheus’s second gift of fire…

On the Head of a Pin
Read by Dominic Hoffman

Joshua Winterland and Ana Fried are working at Jennings-Toremont Enterprises. JTE is developing advanced animatronics editing techniques that will create high-end movies indistinguishable from live action. Long dead stars can now share the screen with today’s A-list. But one night Joshua and Ana discover something lingering in the rendered footage…an entity that will lead them into a new age beyond the reality they have come to know.