The Ardis audio studio presents a short novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Gentle One,” telling the story of a woman who turns out to be married to a moneylender. Dostoevsky gave the work the subtitle “A Fantastic Tale,” explaining that it was called “fantastic” only because it is “a stream of thoughts” from the narrator—thoughts that, as if, were overheard and recorded by a stenographer.