Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Side Trip #4 - Joe, the Alien by Marshal Latham

Joe comes to visit his jintal while she is near headquarters.  It's all about politics.







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Theme music: Surfs Down by Man In Space.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Journey #43 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

The selfish giant want his grand garden all to himself.


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Oscar Wilde, born on Oct 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, is a well-known, journalist, writer, playwright and poet.   After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Among his most notable works are his plays The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also widely known for his satirical witticisms.
Cast of characters:
Kelley Latham as Narrator
Nicole Latham as the happy child
Marshal Latham as the giant
Megan Latham as Spring
Parker Latham as the answering child
Robbie Latham as the loved little boy

Music used in this production:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G (Movement I), Minima, Oppressive Gloom, Arcadia, and Virtutes Vocis by Kevin MacLeod

Related Links:
Oscar Wilde, moralist - Washington Times article
Wilde On... in Vaticano? - article by Catholic blogger Rocco Palmo
Lyrics to "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief"


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Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.



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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Journey #31 - The Funeral by Christopher Munroe

Attending a funeral, even a stranger's, can cause contemplation of life.


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Chris Munroe is not a stranger to our journeys.  His story “The Box” was featured in October, and he recently read Mark Onspaugh’s “The Milton Feinhoff Problem” for us. Chris is an actor, comedian, and wordsmith who lives in the great country of Canada.  His stories have appeared in assorted other podcasts such as the Drabblecast and the Dunesteef. You can find many more of his work at munsistories.com.  Check it out.


Our narrator is  Josh Roseman (not the trombonist) who lives in Georgia USA.  His writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Fusion Fragment, Port Iris, Big Pulp, and in audio form on the Drabblecast and Dunesteef.  He also does a lot of voice work and has been heard on StarShipSofa, EscapePod, Pseudopod, and the Dunesteef.   We last heard him here in December as the narrator of “The Mansion”.
Suggested Podcast Episode: "Death and Michelle Jenkins" by Christopher Munroe on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Music used in this production: "Music for Funeral Home - Part 1 & 2" by Kevin MacLeod

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.



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Friday, March 9, 2012

Journey #29 - All At Once by Nathaniel Lee

The dead birds outside the library fortell approaching doom, so Harker and the Gollimog must prepare.






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Nathaniel Lee likes to put words in various orders, and occasionally receive payment for this. He primarily writes short fiction, and his work can be seen at Abyss & Apex, Daily Science Fiction, and Pseudopod, as well as various other online venues, mostly for free. A full bibliography (and an ever-growing collection of 100-word stories) can be found at www.mirrorshards.org, where he publishes one very short story (almost) every day.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "May He Reign Forever" by Nathaniel Lee on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Music used in this production: "A Thousand Skins (Part 2)" by Josh Woodward
Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.



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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Journey #27 - The King of Rabbits and Moon Lake by Eugie Foster

Khargosh, King of Rabbits, seeks to save his colony from the drought.  Then the elephants come.


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Eugie Foster is a very talented and versitle writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and children's lit. Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named the 2009 Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE, was published by Norilana Books and can be found on her website at eugiefoster.com.  Her works have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Cricket, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show just to name a few.
Today's narator, Rajan Khanna is a writer and sometimes corporate wageslave who spends much of his time dreaming of imaginary things.  Rajan is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a member of the NY-based writing group, Altered Fluid. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shimmer Magazine, GUD, and The Way of the Wizard (among others) and has received Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror and the Year’s Best Science Fiction.   He sometimes writes articles for Tor.com and occasionally narrates podcasts for sites like Podcastle, Lightspeed, and Pseudopod, and now, lucky for us, Journey Into... 

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Mannie the Mailmobile" on Clonepod and "The Wish of the Demon Achromagk" on Drabblecast by Eugie Foster

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.



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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Journey #25 - The Milton Feinhoff Problem by Mark Onspaugh

One bright Spring morning, Milton Feinhoff came downstairs to find himself eating an enormous stack of waffles.  That was just the beginning.

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As a child, Mark Onspaugh sat too close to the TV, and now needs glasses.  His young brain was irradiated with monster movies, sci-fi and Looney Tunes.  DC Comics took care of the rest.  Today, he is the writer of the film Kill Katie Malone, a co-writer of the cult fave Flight of the Living Dead, and has several scripts in development.  He has sold numerous short stories and essays.  He tells people he was raised by wolves, but his parents were nice people who only eviscerated the occasional wayward traveler.  You can visit him at www.markonspaugh.com and on his Facebook pages, including Out of My Mind – Fiction and Film from MarkOnspaugh.
Today's narator, Chris Munroe, is a 33 year old actor/comedian who, between shows and dayjobs, likes to play with words and ideas. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where he works, lives, maintains his flash fiction blog (munsistories.blogspot.com) and struggles with an as yet unfinished surrealist urban fantasy novel. His work has previously appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Dark Recesses and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.  He also now has a YouTube channel under the name MunsiSellsOut.
Suggested Podcast Episode: "The Man Who Lived Backwards" by Charles F. Hall on The Classic Tales Podcast

Marshal's Podcast List:
DunesteefAudio Fiction Magazine
   -->  Dribblecast
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Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Side Trip #1 - Pardon by Marshal Latham





Is being picked for the Selection more important than friendship?


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Big Thanks to Bryan Lincoln (of the Fullcast Podcast) for producing the episode for me!!

Cast of characters:
This cast is entirely made up of members of the A.I.E. guild in World of Warcraft (hence the gaming names as pseudonyms):

Bryan Lincoln (of My Epic Heals, and the Fullcast Podcast ) as the Narrator
Zhug (of Convert To Raid and the Independent Music Podcast) as Massasoit
RevnGeek (of RevnGeek's Paraody Palace) as Bradford
Shmage as Cranberry
Koltrane  (of Convert To Raid) as Mashed, and the President
Eade (of My Epic Heals) as One of the men

Music used in this production:  "Fit for a king" by Josh Woodward

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

Theme music: Surfs Down by Man In Space.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Journey #15 - The Box by Christopher Munroe

There is a box in the corner of his room; and he will not open it.


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The author, Christopher Munroe, lives in Calgary, Alberta, where he works, lives, and maintains his flash fiction blog.  His fiction has been featured on Drabblecast, Dribblecast, and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Graeme Dunlop, the reader of this story is the host and editor of the YA speculative fiction podcast, Cast of Wonders.  He is also the audio editor for Pseudopod, and the submissions editor for CastMacabre.

Music used in this production:

Theme music by Man In Space and Soundtrax for the Non-Existing Movies

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Journey #9 - God-Shaped Box by D.K. Thompson

Two grieving scientists attempt to resurrect their son by trapping God in a box built to Old Testament specifications.


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The author, D.K. Thompson, is also co-editor of Podcastle, and often posts to his blog.  Also check out a couple of his other podcasted stories: Last Respects on Pseudopod, and Heart of Clay on Variant Frequencies.

This story was read by Lawrence Santoro, who also blogs.  A Kindle edition of his first solo book, Just North of Nowhere, can be found on Amazon.  He is also a frequent narrator at Starship Sofa.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Journey #4 - In Spite of Himself by Nathaniel Lee


Alkahest seeks to make a name for himself in the super villan gig.

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The author, Nathaniel Lee, publishes daily microfiction at mirrorshards.org.  Also check out his other superhero story "As Fast As You Can" with re-imagined characters from this story at Daily Science Fiction.

This story was read by Mat Weller, who, among other voice acting and producing duties, is the audio producer for Escape Pod.

Music used in this production:
We Got Trouble and Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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