Some of the readers of this site will know that this story is the original piece of material behind Candlelight Stories. Back in 1994, I sat at a very flimsy folding table in a Los Angeles apartment with a box of pastels, crayons and ballpoint pens to scratch out a pile of illustrations that vaguely [...]
C Merry has created an epic rambling fairy tale that weaves her own modern perspective through the classic stories that children have been familiar with for centuries. The result is both humorous and unsettling. C Merry combines these tales with mythology and Christmas to explain things that have been long forgotten. It’s a beautiful way [...]
Some of the readers of this site will know that this story is the original piece of material behind Candlelight Stories. Back in 1994, I sat at a very flimsy folding table in a Los Angeles apartment with a box of pastels, crayons and ballpoint pens to scratch out a pile of illustrations that vaguely [...]
DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO A classic from the Arabian Nights collection. A vast treasure hidden in a secret cave, a band of cutthroat thieves, betrayals and twists of fortune are woven into one of the world’s great stories. This story contains violent situations that may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Adults [...]
DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO A favor done and one returned. But where do they lead. A tale about ambition and greed. Subscribe to audio podcast Subscribe to audio with iTunes
What we have here is an enormous tale of medieval chivalry, dragon lore, heraldry, round-tableness, and the insane goings-on of knights and their goonish glory. The magnificent squad of funny men behind these tales of audio craziness call themselves The Hazardous Players. Their ongoing comic production is a series of tales called Knighttime, which follows [...]
DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO Sascha Cooper is our Little Poetry Contest winner. Her poem, A Blank Canvas, is a meditation on the power of creativity in normal surroundings. We didn’t get many poems for the contest so it only makes sense to pick a single winner. Perhaps more poets will want to enter the next Little [...]
Fear on Demand is an excellent horror story podcast. Their latest offering is Room 412 by Michael Laimo. The narrator is Gord Mackenzie. When a man checks into a hotel during a business trip he is irritated by a constant thumping from the room next door. What’s making that noise? His terror mounts as the [...]
I Sing the Body Electric is a poem that celebrates the life of the body and its equal status with the soul. Walt Whitman is probably the greatest poet in the English language since William Shakespeare. Some might argue with this but there is no other poet who so muscularly tore the page to shreds [...]
DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is possibly the greatest fairy tale of them all from the Brothers Grimm. In this full 30-minute production you will hear a cast of characters, completely original orchestral music, songs, and fantastic sound effects. We tell the story in a way that is unlike any you [...]
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