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Story
If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits was produced for the 2007 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Dollar Storeys.
Producer
Hillary Frank is the author and illustrator of the novels Better Than Running at Night, I Can’t Tell You, and the forthcoming Normal, ME. She is also contributes to a variety of public radio programs, including This American Life, Studio 360, and Weekend America. Frank lives in Philadelphia.
Extra
The Dollar Storeys project invited any/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by one of three items purchased at a dollar store:
- ceramic mug sporting feisty feminist banter
- 4-pack of wooden mousetraps
- an old-school bicycle bell
Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits was inspired by the bicycle bell.
Read more about and listen to all 82 Dollar Storeys.
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