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Are you a fan of science fiction and fantasy short stories? Do you love getting lost in a good book or audio drama? Tall Tale TV has you covered. With modern fiction from around the world, professionally narrated just for you, Tall Tale TV is your premier destination for bite-size audiobook adventure. My name is Chris Herron, a professional voice actor, and Every Monday and Friday I professionally narrate short stories from around the world. From epic fantasy to space opera, steampunk to urb ...
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Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning, critically-acclaimed digital magazine. In its pages, you'll find science fiction from near-future stories and sociological SF to far-future, star-spanning SF. Plus there's fantasy from epic sword-and-sorcery and contemporary urban tales to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folk tales. Each month, LIGHTSPEED brings you a mix of original short stories and flash fiction featuring a variety of authors, f ...
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Grange Ghosts ep.628 Douglas Gwilym has been known to compose a weird-fiction rock opera or two. His short story "Poppy's Poppy" is a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award this year, and "Year Six" is on Ellen Datlow's recommended reading list for Best Horror 14. He edited Triangulation for four years and now co-edits The Midnight Zone—forthcoming editi…
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Crunches and shrieks buffeted the Magellan LLC smartship as it plunged into Enceladus’s kilometers-thick ice crust, making their way to the subsurface ocean and the rival LuxeSpace corporation’s station situated there. Warning signals flashed through Jarrell and his fellow shipminds’ readouts, but they followed their orders and continued inward. Th…
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Epic Dinner Conversation ep.627 A suburban family is not what it seems to be. Or, perhaps, it's exactly what it seems to be. That, ultimately, is a choice one can make. E. Kimball has nothing to promote, he just likes telling silly stories. A few have even been published! But if you'd like an up-to-date list of his other works, you can visit http:/…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 33 (book 4) ep.626 With every door that closes, one more opens. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book thr…
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Hard Memory ep.625 Someone is hacking neural implants and the only clue is their last memory. Addison Smith (he/him) is an author and laborer living in Upstate New York, where he spends most of his time at libraries. He is a member of the Codex Writers Group, and his fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and other publication…
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The Stamp Collector ep.624 When you receive everything you want for Christmas, do you ask who knows about your actions that previous year? Robin Claiborne is a horror and fantasy writer living and working in New York. He is a stay-at-home father and short-story writer, and loves writing stories he'll one day share with his family. ---- Listen Elsew…
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The Great Hall of Ahkurst ep.623 The old world may be forgotten, but it is not gone. Lee Clark Zumpe, an entertainment columnist with Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned his bachelor’s in English at the University of South Florida. He began writing poetry and fiction in the early 1990s. His work has regularly appeared in a variety of literary journals and…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 32 (book 4) ep.622 Knowing what you're fighting for can make all the difference. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ L…
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Finding Georgia ep.621 It seems a lot of people go missing in the Aberdeen woods. Chris Riley lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes cool stories, and hides from the blasting heat for six months of the year. He has had over 100 short stories publ…
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I came to the city to find an egg. A robin’s egg, to be precise, an oval of pale, perfect blue that echoed the spring sky. Inside, not a robin, but an emerald. Inside the emerald, a wizard’s heart. He had decided he missed it, and he wanted it back. It was the usual sort of thing, or so he had assured me. His heart taken out and stored for safekeep…
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Still Hungry ep.620 Something unnatural is sitting at table 9. Bob Reiss is the best selling author of 24 books of fiction and non-fiction. Still Hungry is from Bob's short story collection, "Still Hungry, Tales From the Shadows" published as an ebook by Vida press in 2022. Many of his novels are based on his travels as a journalist in remote parts…
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Rain Delay ep.619 Two tennis players' lives are turned upside down when they realize it never rains when they play. Daniel M. Cojocaru (he, him) was born and grew up in Switzerland (of Romanian and Czech background). He studied English Lit in Zurich and later completed his PhD at Oxford University (St. Peter’s College). But, since everybody’s a cri…
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The house wakes from its somnolence as the witch trudges up the path made of tarts. Through its rock-candy windows, the house scans her figure for any signs of hurt. The witch’s errands in the city make her nervous. And the house, being made of her magic and therefore of the witch, worries along with her that the wrong person might recognize her, o…
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Checkpoint ep.618 On a distant planet, an alien teenager falls for the human girl whose exiled family has come to live there. Joel Fishbane's novel "The Thunder of Giants" is available from St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, including On Spec, the Saturday Evening Post, the Massachusetts Review, and …
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No Do-Overs ep.617 Brainwashing, the latest in child rearing technology! Andrew Rucker Jones is a former IT dweeb and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. His greatest literary achievement to date is authoring ninety-eight iCloud reminders for every household chore from cleaning sinks to checking sm…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 31 (book 4) ep.616 Some things must be done alone. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://tal…
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The Schooner Redwing ep.615 A Shipwrecked crew goes missing. Andrew is an award winning fiction writer from Delaware where he owns and operates a small farm with his wife. His free time is spent as close to the water as possible, with a book in his hand, or writing stories that nobody wants to read. ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.y…
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What I observed was a giant anthropomorphized ribbon microphone, the type one might imagine standing in front of a radio announcer and his studio audience, selling soap in the dirty 1930s. It sauntered lazily over to an overstuffed red couch, walking on stick-figure legs that looked like they’d been hand-drawn by a young child. The large red couch …
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The Doomsday Virus ep.614 The Doomsday Virus defies scientific credulity but has a speculative explanation. Arthur Pitchenik is a retired professor of medicine with many published research articles in top medical Journals on infectious diseases. ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 30 (book 4) ep.613 Monsters are made, not born. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://tallta…
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Winter Star ep.612 There's no telling what you'll hear on shortwave radio. M. C. Tuggle is a life-long tinkerer and science geek now retired from the insurance industry, where he worked in project management and operations research. His science fiction, fantasy, and mystery stories have been featured in several publications, including Mystery Weekl…
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The town was not called Byzantium. The Ministry named it during the first meeting. “It’s not a colony,” Thomas James would have said if he could, but the office was hot and bright, the sun in the windows, in his eyes. He felt like he was surrounded by faceless figures even though there were only two other people in the room. The town they were talk…
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Duties of the Wind ep.611 It helps to know what you're going to do with it before you steal it. Dan Crawford wrote three novels in the Nineties which led to a lot of "Whatever became of this guy" posts online. His short stories are often to be found in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and his poems, alas, can be listened to on YouTube. ---- Lis…
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Mechanistry 5 ep.610 Nalt has a surefire plan to graduate this time, nothing could possibly go wrong. Mechanistry 5 was written to celebrate Tall Tale TV's 6th anniversary! My first-ever Episode featured Nalt and Master Stokes, and I try (somewhat unsuccessfully) to write a new story in the Mechanistry universe every year. It's a fun little measure…
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Learning Curve ep.609 In the future, the young must 'Juice' to stay relevant. Andrew Rucker Jones is a former IT dweeb and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. His greatest literary achievement to date is authoring ninety-eight iCloud reminders for every household chore from cleaning sinks to checki…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 29 (book 4) ep.608 Desperation can give rise to the worst ideas. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book th…
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The Right Answer ep.607 Trying to defend the human race is hard even when you're not black-out drunk. During the day, James A. Miller works as Director of Engineering helping his team to make the machines do what they are supposed to. At night, he spends time with his family and does his best to come up with fun and creative fiction. He is a first …
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“Who loves you?” I ask. My daughter looks away. Doesn’t answer. I lean down and turn her to face me, resting my thumb in the dimple in her chin. It’s the same dimple her mother has. Or had. “You love me, Daddy.” “That’s right, so please listen closely,” I say. She’s only nine, but Anya’s eyes are flat and black and hard to read in the dim light of …
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 28 (book 4) ep.608 Situations rarely play out as we expect them to. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book…
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Marrak's Chest ep.605 When a locked star drive gifts the crew with virtual immortality Marrak and Guin discover that they have a long time to consider whether or not some gifts might be better not given. Bob Johnston has been a science fiction and horror fan since childhood. He started scribbling after a too early introduction to the likes of Micha…
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I punched my brother because he was an idiot, because he couldn’t see what I saw, how hard mom held onto the dish rag when she came out onto the deck to tell us dad had been in an accident, which is why the first thing out of his idiot mouth was “So can we go to Pizza Hut for dinner instead?” And her face had already been enough to tell me dad was …
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Gone Hunting ep.604 Their village starving, a desperate hunting party sets off in search for food. Trailing their prey to the foot of Horn Forest, the trio find themselves faced with two choices: turn back in shame with nothing, or, venture into the woods of the hooved folk. A native of San Antonio, Texas, C. W. “Clint” Stevenson resides there with…
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Three Girls in a Hut ep.603 If it seems too good to be true, it is. Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. He and his wife Jane now live in Texas.Joe’s stories have appeared in more than one hundred magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and Shenandoah, and his short story collection, Stories and Places I Remember. His novels include, Birds of …
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"Mr. Cuddlekins’ Fortune" ep.602 The Devil by any other name is still the Devil. Andrew Rucker Jones is a former IT dweeb and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. His greatest literary achievement to date is authoring ninety-eight iCloud reminders for every household chore from cleaning sinks to che…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Scaly ep.601 Carson just wants to go home to his beloved Carabelle, and he’s not going to let anything get in his way. Not even an eight foot, mind-controlling lizard with a grudge. Nikki Blakely enjoys writing fiction of all shapes, sizes and genres from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. By day she is a mild-manner…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 27 (book 4) ep.600 The decisions that are most important are often the ones that leave us hollow. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-…
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Can A.I. Write Like Terry Pratchett? ep.599 I had Chat GPT try and write like Terry Pratchett, one of the greatest authors of all time. We see how it stacks up, and then discuss some of the implications of AI in creative fields. Watch this episode on YouTube to see the AI artwork and animation: https://youtu.be/9EnvKaOEVW4 Programs used to make thi…
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Enid sat on the front porch of Haven’s clinic with a half a dozen books, some paper, and a small chalkboard. Three days a week, when she was in town, she taught reading to Haven’s children who wanted to learn. The last two weeks, Rose was the only kid who came to the lessons. Her household’s daughter, Rose, eight years old, stared at her while wear…
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The Unexamined Life ep.598 Is the Unexamined Life worth living? This government agency will look into it. John Willems is a practicing attorney in West Virginia who writes speculative fiction on the side. He lives in Charleston, WV with his wife, Rachel, and his son, Francis. He's been published in Synthetic Reality Magazine and in Literally Storie…
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Two Robots ep.597 Two judgment bots reminisce about all those they executed. While studying for his undergraduate degree, Joseph was a finalist in the Beacon Essay Contest and presented his essay to a panel of judges. This sparked his love for storytelling. Recently, he decided to take up the pen once again and explore his passion. Joseph has had t…
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AUDIO LOG BF-0003 / 2083-14-09 13:36 / This . . . feels strange. They said that it’s healthy for those of us whose spouses take Return Missions to record our thoughts. Audio journaling, they called it. Zeli, if you saw the way these devices look, you’d have laughed at the very suggestion of it. They said other spouses who’ve done it have found it h…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 26 (book 4) ep.596 Vel gets one step closer to the kids, while Errik slides several steps back from his goal. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series…
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The Last of Mr. Benjimen ep.595 Witnesses at an inquiry into a ship wreck relate the weird and contradictory final moments of one of the passengers. Rick Kennett has five books on Amazon - two novels: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Presumed Dead. A novella: In Quinn's Paddock. And two collections: The Dark and What It Said and Thirty Minutes f…
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Night Lights ep.594 When the lights come on at night, the demons come out. Joe Prosit writes sci-fi, horror, and psycho fiction. “Machines Monsters and Maniacs” is a self-published collection of sixteen of his short stories. You can find it on Amazon or at his website, at www.JoeProsit.com. If you’re an adept stalker, you can find him on one of the…
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Solaris ep.593 After a space station cuts contact, clues lead to a horrifying discovery. Emma Scoble is a young author from Ontario, Canada. She can be found watching anything sci-fi and deleting two words for every word she types. ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story…
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Of Portals and Portents, Ch. 25 (book 4) ep.592 Out of the ashes, new opportunities arise. Listen to the book four playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-portals-and-portents/ or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three…
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Hazards of Faster-Than-Light Travel ep.591 Beware the unknown. David Rogers' interests include all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and the generally weird and strange, from Poe to Stephen King, Shirley Jackson to Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemisin. David's poems, stories, and articles have been published by various outlets, including Star*Line,…
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My father was so honest, people often spoke of him in cliches. For example---you know the way someone will sometimes say so-and-so was so honest they’d walk five miles to return an extra nickel they’d been given in their change? Nobody means anybody actually did that kind of thing when they say it, of course---you and I both know they’re only exagg…
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Christina ep.590 A sudden power to heal is a double-edged sword. Ever since reading John Bellairs when he was ten or eleven, W. M. Pienton wanted to be a writer. He worked as a ghostwriter and wrote for the local paper, The Sturbridge Villager. For about a year, he worked as a freelance writer. He has a self published novel, "Swampscott Fitzgerald"…
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Broken Dolls ep.589 A tragic event is more than it seems. Melissa R. Mendelson is a Poet and Horror, Science-Fiction and Dystopian Short Story Author. Her stories have been published by Sirens Call Publications, Dark Helix Press, Altered Reality Magazine, Transmundane Press, Owl Canyon Press, Wild Ink Publishing, and The Yard: Crime Blog. Amazon Au…
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