Podcast Episodes

A COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFE by O.HENRY

From THE FOUR MILLION by O. Henry

O. Henry's "A Cosmopolite in a Café" tells of the narrator meeting E. Rushmore Coglan, a man who claims to be a tru…

7 months ago

A BROTHERS GRIMM TRIPLE PLAY: TOM THUMB, THE FROG PRINCE, AND BRIAR ROSE

3  Original fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm whose job it was to spend their lives collecting old tales-m the same ones that Disney and others cle…

7 months ago

EDGAR ALLAN POE: A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

In Scandinavia, there is a phenomenon known as the Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen, a system of tidal whirlpools found in the Lofoten archipelago in N…

7 months ago

LAZARUS COME FORTH by RAY BRADBUIRY

Planet Stories 1944 copy-A morgue ship with recent information gathered from space that would end a 300 year old war is commandeered by a greedy crew…

7 months, 1 week ago

ERDGAR ALLAN POE: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontadillo is a story of revenge. A man named Montresor lures an old friend who unknowingly wronged him to sample his …

7 months, 1 week ago

THE BUSH FIRE by HENRY LAWSON (A.K.A.THE FIRE AT ROSS'S FARM)

This story was originally written as a 'Bush Ballad" or poem-story by Henry Lawson, and it describes how two competing farm families finally unite wh…

7 months, 1 week ago

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE by JACK LONDON

meTFrom Jack London's collection 'The Road': wo American businessmen stranded in riot-ridden Tampico Mexico shortly after the US occupied Vera Cruz s…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

BREAKING INTO FAST COMPANY by ZANE GREY

Breaking into fast company" is an old expression for a pitcher who makes the big leagues

I led my party into Morrisey's private box in the grand stan…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE and THE CHOICE OF HERCULES (JAMES BALDWIN)

The Husband Who Was To Mind The House- is a folk talestory in which a husband complains tohis wife for not having dinner ready when he comes in from …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

THREE WISE GUYS by DAMON RUNYAN

METhe Three Wise Men by Damon Runyan tells the story of three mobsters who stop to help a woman having a baby, and find unexpected redemption for the…

7 months, 3 weeks ago