The Cru take a poetical turn while imitating the style and substance of author Ellen Hopkins, most notable for her Crank trilogy about the trauma of addiction. Stories feature a disaffected youth; a mysterious eavesdropper in the park; a lonely soul looking for a home; and a misunderstood adolescent.
From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:
Eavesdropper. One who listens stealthily to conversation. The eavesdrop or eavesdrip was the space of ground liable to receive the water dripping from the eaves of a house. An eaves- dropper is one who places himself in the eaves-drip to overhear what is said in the house.
Under our tents I'll play the eavesdropper, To hear if any mean, to shrink from me.
Richard III, v, 3.
Stories begin around the 16 minute mark.
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