An ex-athlete reminisces fondly about his years in a half-forgotten, strictly mid-tier baseball league, recalling the characters, the laughter, and all the other tiny pleasures of a long chapter in his fortunate life. Written and performed by S

The Angle of the Light

Feb 1st, 2021 2h 38m

In this love story set in a small American town in the late 19th century, a wanderer seeking shelter from troubling memories is changed forever by the women who befriend him there. Additional narration by Amy Paonessa. Music: ‘Wooden Starlight’

In the Realm of the Eight Dollar Soda

Mar 5th, 2020 1h 8m

Five movie parodies for those times when you get wistful about the closure of that discount theater you used to go to with your weird friend Sidney. The movies: Eyes Wide Shut - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Solaris - Winter Light - Heat With Amy

Town With a Tranquil Name

Oct 30th, 2019 3h 43m

A cryptic family album hiding a mystery 170 years old; a lonely cemetery revealing disturbing patterns no one will acknowledge; a dreaded knock at the door on a night of deserted streets, hushed voices, and villagers cowering by candlelight. Th

Tyrant, Draw Thy Sword

Sep 19th, 2018 2h 5m

The year was 2007, and conditions in Bello Gardens, one of the most squalid and dangerous housing projects in America, were at their worst. Decimated by poverty, tortured by crime, and suffocated by neglect, the slum known cynically as the Joke

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

Feb 8th, 2018 1h 27m

For diehard romantics only, these are the letters of a reckless stargazer who turned his back on reality to lose himself in a love story whose ending seemed foretold from the beginning. Narrated by Soren Narnia and Justy Gee of the Starless po

Joke Meets Ground

Aug 13th, 2017 2h 6m

What do you mean, you don't remember my podcast Joke Meets Ground? Here's the entire run (I would have gone much farther, but I seem to recall the audience had other ideas). Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commo

Three Stories for a Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Jul 13th, 2017 21m 52s

Music: “Feather Waltz” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever

Feb 20th, 2017 1h 24m

Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever depicts the unusual on-stage wedding of Stanley and Muriel, a ceremony filled with stunningly honest testimonials and reenactments which reveal the couple’s deepest secrets. In the space of ninety minutes they expe

An Oral History of Hell

Sep 12th, 2016 1h 33m

This is a bleak, brutish tale of dark suspense related by a narrator condemned to Hell's wintry plain. The Grip, the Speaking Stones, the Far Mountains, the Perimeter, the Lie: In describing Hell's harsh geography and customs, Nicholas Strait a

Whatever You Find Within You

Apr 9th, 2016 2h 21m

Whatever You Find Within You is a romantic comedy of both solemn longing and bumbling confusion, and the rather fine line between the two. When an unread love story by the great nineteenth century Icelandic playwright Dari Stanislad is discover

Objects Found in a Faraway Field

Feb 1st, 2016 13m 35s

It's funny, the little theories you develop over the years, so random and rarely spoken. One of mine is that if any true, irrevocable harm can come to a single innocent creature on this earth, then maybe, just maybe, life itself should never ha

The Tears of Sisyphus

Nov 2nd, 2015 59m 44s

Over the course of one long day on a seemingly endless country road, a hitchhiker listens to the sad, desperate circumstances that her driver has found himself in--and becomes witness to his determined effort to free himself from a terrible tra

Toward the Close of November

Sep 24th, 2015 11m 16s

A short and simple fable, written years ago, and one I think about whenever I feel the first chill of the season in the air.

New Players Welcome Here

Aug 31st, 2015 1h 25m

You never know which one of those temporary jobs you take in your twenties on your way to a real career will provide you with the greatest memories. For the narrator of this novella, it was unexpectedly working for the Pittsburgh Design Agreeme

Song of the Living Dead

Jul 27th, 2015 1h 54m

The zombies rose and walked, the country went mad, and then the zombies laid down again--all without committing a single act of violence. Traveling randomly across the east with a group of close friends, the restless dreamer Lionel Gathers witn

Sketch of a Bird in Flight

Jun 1st, 2015 2h 7m

This novella follows young Tobin Millane, lonely outcast and reluctant gunslinger, on his run for survival across the Kansas prairie in 1881. His desperate travels lead him and his silent partner into violent conflict with the bandits he stole

3:13 a.m.

May 1st, 2015 2h 46m

It is 3:13 a.m., and now the human imagination reaches out to places and yearnings that it shies away from during life's daylight hours of quiet desperation. The brief parables, random episodes, and emotional wanderings presented here act as a

Loft

Apr 12th, 2015 1h

For seven years around the turn of the 21st century, America was enthralled by one of the most intense sporting competitions ever invented. The game of Loft demanded extraordinary precision, athleticism, and daring, rewarding only those who mad

Signs Pass By

Mar 28th, 2015 1h 22m

When data analyst and closet comedian Calvin Tarby enrolled in depression treatment at a facility in the middle of nowhere, he was prepared to slog through six long weeks of isolation. But then he was tipped off to an unexpected perk of the pro

A Listing of the Holdings of the National Museum of Romance

Mar 25th, 2015 1h 30m

In December of 2003, the National Museum of Romance in Tristia, New Jersey, closed its doors due to lack of funding. On December 14, the public came to bid on the artifacts in the museum's permanent collection, fascinated by the stories of pass

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