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The Cost is Not Important. Two stories by Richard Matheson
Episode 63
In which our hero reads two stories by Richard Matheson. Both center around a funeral home and the events therein, but with remarkably different outc…
7 years, 10 months ago
A Pleasant Evening, by Robert Chambers
Episode 62
A young newspaper portraitist meets a young lady who asks him for a favor. He agrees to it, because, after all, what could go wrong with delivering a…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Crawling Chaos, by Elizabeth Berkeley, and Lewis Theobold Jr
Episode 61
A short story about the end of the world that is absolutely NOT in any way AT ALL written by H.P. Lovecraft.
7 years, 11 months ago
Never Bet the Devil Your Head, and Three Sundays in a Week, by Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 60
In which we bring you two short stories from Edgar Allan Poe.
In the first, we learn what gambling and riotous living will earn you,
In the secon…
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #30: The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus
Episode 59
In which my wife reads the sonnet that is inscribed on the tablet of the Statue of Liberty, and we bring National Poetry Month to a close. Thank you …
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #29: Afternoon with Irish Cows, by Billy Collins
Episode 58
Cows.
Moo.
This is the penultimate poem.
Moo again.
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #28: Ceasefire, by Michael Longley
Episode 57
In which my wife reads a poem that is outwardly about one thing, but inwardly about a totally different thing
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #27: Smart, by Shel Silverstein
Episode 56
Shel Silverstein teaches us that, sometimes, less is more.
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #26: The Man from Snowy River, by Andrew Barton Pattersonn
Episode 55
[Copypasta from Wikipedia]
The poem was written at a time in the 1880s and 1890s when Australia was developing a distinct identity as a nation. Tho…
7 years, 11 months ago
National Poetry Month Poem #24: I Carry Your Heart, by ee cummings
Episode 53
In which my wife reads a poem.
8 years ago