A Dill Pickle
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Narrated by:
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Laura Greaves
About this listen
What happens when a past love resurfaces—and the illusion of intimacy begins to unravel?
In A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield, a chance meeting in a café brings together two former lovers whose lives have taken very different paths. As they sit across from one another, polite conversation gives way to memory, regret, and subtle emotional power shifts. What begins as nostalgia slowly reveals deeper truths about ego, control, and the quiet wounds left by emotional neglect.
Through fragmented dialogue and unspoken tension, Mansfield exposes how love can be distorted by self-absorption, and how one voice can dominate while another fades into silence. The past is revisited not with warmth, but with growing clarity—as one character begins to recognize what was lost, and what was never truly offered.
Press play and step into one of her most revealing short stories—where memory is selective, affection is uneven, and freedom begins with understanding.
Public Domain (P)2025 Evergreen Classics Audio