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S3 Ep. 01 - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

S3 Ep. 01 - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Update: 2025-09-16

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Welcome to the Fast and the Fictitious, a podcast created by high school students as part of their dual enrollment Fiction course. In this episode, Noah, Kayden, and Isabelle talk about Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," a story in which a, well, you guessed it, a very old man with enormous wings shows up unexpectedly at the home of a family with a sick child. Spoiler alert: the child gets better, but at what cost? The trio analyze the story and wonder what would happen if such a magical being arrived in their hometowns.

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S3 Ep. 01 - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

S3 Ep. 01 - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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