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From traditional to experimental, this collection of short stories includes mysteries, monologues, literary pieces, and mischievous whimsy. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, the stories aim to challenge as much as they strive to please. Strangers become intimates, intimates become strangers: the world is turned upside down, shaken, then served up with a wink. These stories take the listener to private places: they are unforgettable inside stories.

This is an Irish novel set in Los Angeles and read by the author, the actor Chris Sullivan. It tells the story of Alfredo Hunter, a depressive Jewish/Irish playwright who is in Hollywood to make a killing in the film business. It also tells the story of the unknown narrator, who observes Alfredo's various fluctuations of mood and humor. Humor is to the fore in this novel of a building friendship between two Dubliners as they encounter the New World, with its new language and confusing mores.

Jackie McGee is a young woman destined to become a local TV news star. Told in retrospect, Jackie takes the listener on the bumpy ride from her beginnings as a small-town TV reporter to her final revelations about big-time local TV news.

The first Philadelphia Fringe Festival podcast play The Many Men of Martha Manning is a giddy spoof of the classic radio soap operas of the 40s and 50s. This six-episode "StereoSonic Adventure" takes the plucky 1958 housewife from Pepper Pickle, Pennsylvania, on a wild ride around the world in search of the truth about her missing scientist husband, Bill. She's accompanied by her incomprehensible best friend, Dotty.

Pichu is the best soccer player anyone in the little Mexican town of Los Barriles has ever seen. When a vacationing American soccer coach sees the teenager score a gravity-defying goal in a local game, he offers Pichu a scholarship to pay for the University of San Francisco's underdog team. Pichu leaves his family and the security of his idyllic fishing village and finds himself in a jarringly different environment.

Yolo dares you to look closer at the little flutters of negative thought that paralyze you from moving forward. It is an enlightening story of Yolo, a little spider monkey, who lives in her perch high atop the jungle floor and attempts to find happiness without ever taking a risk. Yolo is faced with the same unexpected challenges that we all deal with, including love, loss, family, abandonment, depression, and success.

In this chilling short story, the nature of a priest's prisoner and his crime are revealed through a letter. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

The Institute team gets its first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

If your purpose for buying an audiobook is to find something to help put you to sleep, this is not it. But if you want to follow a small time con-man from coast to coast as he somehow managess to irritate, intimidate, of just in general piss off the following list of people - hit men, drug dealers, doctors, antique dealers, coin dealers, cops, and an unfaithful wife who thinks it is OK for her to steal everything from him that he steals from everybody else - then you have found the right book!

A boy discovers the special connection between fishing, grandfathers, and the great beyond. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Have we advanced so far that we have arrived full circle with the technology of ancient times? Dr. James Bartlow thinks so. Appointed by the president of the United States to head the country's first national center for live fetal-tissue research, Bartlow stumbles upon an ancient, unknown technology that he believes will open the gateway to a whole new paradigm.

The common wisdom is that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was a failed actor and a madman. But the truth is that he was the matinee idol of his time, and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy. In Consider the Elephant, the story of John Wilkes Booth's life and death is told by his brother, Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age.

Banking, Beer & Robert The Bruce is a fictional novel depicting two slowly entwining families from Irish/Scottish and English descent in a humorous and real-life way. Mixing bawdy British humor and American-style action-adventure, this is good old fashioned story-telling at its best.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

A retarded young girl saves the lives of those in her care with box of broken crayons. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Provocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels.

A young hippie couple reach both enlightenment and social fame via their "material pragmatism", supported by both Western and Eastern religion - and with some help from an American Indian named "Little Bird".

Deep in a kudzu forest, a small town sacrifices an unsuspecting traveler. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Sex and spite, a husband and a wife, a girl and a boy, a divorce and a home divided. Siege at Sorrel Rift presents the events surrounding the end of a marriage in a compelling audio drama. The book's theme of love and war is timely - and timeless. It is a simple - and cautionary - tale of the devastation which results when parents wage war and force children into the fight.

Joe Ash is on a mission to save his daughter. The odds are against him and everyone knows it. Everyone.