![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce - Roy Trumbull
Amrose Bierce was a newspaper reporter and writer with a very dark twisted sense of humor. He went to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again. His story was told in the movie "Old Gringo".
Keywords: Bierce; Fiend's Delight; humor
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| Story-Tell Lib - Roy Trumbull
A collection of stories first published in 1908 by Annie Trumbull Slosson. They were first told by a 13 year old girl in a southern village who had an amazing talent for making powerful points with her simple stories. Ms. Slosson took them down with attention to the young ladies' dialect. (The author was my distant cousin.) The text for this book is available at www.gutenberg.org. Search author for Slosson.
Keywords: parables; allegories; folk-lore; stories; audio book; dialect; American south |
| The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg - Roy Trumbull
This collection of legends was published in 1909 and is available in English translation at www.gutenberg.org. The footnotes aren't part of the Gutenberg file and the text requires lots of them. Midrash is a term used to describe a story invented to fill in missing information or motives. Folklore includes stories that might be inspired or over-the-top. The text contains all of the above. So far I've only done readings of the chapters concerning the creation myth...
Keywords: Jewish; creation; midrash; folklore; Ginzberg; legends |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte - Roy Trumbull
The only woman in a California mining camp dies giving birth. As any of the men could have been the father, they do the right thing and become the babies collective parent. There really was a place called Roaring Camp but it wasn't a mining camp. Harte apparently liked the name and used it. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Harte, Bret.
Keywords: audio books; old west; gold country; Bret Harte
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| The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit - Roy Trumbull
This is a collection of rather clever tales in which a dragon is one of the players. Edith Nesbit was a much beloved author of children's books in England who is not that well known in the United States. I found her writing to be very charming and funny. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search author for Nesbit.
Keywords: dragons; fairy tales; adventure; humor; Nesbit
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| Aesops Fables - Roy Trumbull
There are many of these traditional fables and most teach a lesson. This is but a small sample of the many fables attributed to Aesop.
Keywords: Aesop; fables; folklore; audio books; fiction; morals |
| President Grant by Henry Adams - Roy Trumbull
This is a reading of chapter 17 of "The Education of Henry Adams" It sets the political scene for the period of the Grant Administration and gives you a look at a Congress that didn't work then just as it doesn't work now. I will admit that Adams is an acquired taste. His conceit of life circumstances providing his education wears a bit. But give your ears the benefit of the doubt and stay with it...
Keywords: audio book; President Grant; Henry Adams; The Education of Henry Adams
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| Gray Mole and the Indian - Roy Trumbull
An American Indian tale. An Indian befriends a gray mole and they travel to the far water. The trees talk to them and tell them what they are useful for. A magic canoe takes them to the mole's home on an island where they set a snare for the sun who has scorched the Indian's deer skin.
Keywords: Indian; gray mole; folklore; audio book; fiction
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| Joey and the Portal by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009 - Roy Trumbull
Joey visits an MRI machine and learns something about how it images soft tissue. Joey's Uncle Walter has vanished and in his uncles lab he finds something like a home brew MRI machine but it's much different. He figures out it's a portal but to where?
Keywords: Joey; MRI; Sci-Fi; fantasy; audio book; Roy Trumbull
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| The Kitchen Side of the Door by Edna Ferber - Roy Trumbull
In the ballroom of the grand hotel on New Year's Eve we pretty much know the scene. On the other side of the kitchen door, will a love gone sour sweeten before the night is over? The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Ferber, Edna.
Keywords: audio books; fiction; ferber; hen lit; love; romance
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| Notes On The Bible - Roy Trumbull
These are some notes on the differences between the Jewish bible and the Christian "Old Testament". The order of the books is different. The names of the books are different. The leading names within the stories are different. The translation problems are considerable. What the bible says or may not say remains problematic.
Keywords: bible; Christian; Jewish; translation; Roy Trumbull
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| One of the Old Girls by Edna Ferber - Roy Trumbull
A career woman in a department store turns down her boy friend's proposal. He is a traveling salesman who has already reached his peak with nowhere to go but down. He comes for a visit and finds she was deathly ill during his absense. On her sick bed she reconsiders his offer. Back at work she changes her mind. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.com. Search authors for Ferber, Edna.
Keywords: audio books; fiction; ferber; hen lit
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| Paul Bunyon Tales - Roy Trumbull
A collection of tall tales that are part of the legend of Paul Bunyon.
Keywords: Paul Bunyon; tall tales; folklore
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| A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame - Roy Trumbull
A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame This story was first published in 1898 at a time when England was a great sea power and the average boy knew more about ships and their weaponry than a modern child knows about a video game console. Our young hero outfits a schooner, selects a crew, hunts polar bears on an iceberg, battles a pirate ship and takes its treasure, rescues a princess, captures a French frigate, and returns in time for tea...
Keywords: pirates; frigates; adventure; imagination; treasure; children's stories
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| The Sprightly Tailor - Roy Trumbull
The Sprightly Tailor comes from a collection of Celtic stories collected by Joseph Jacobs. It tells the tale of a tailor who has been commissioned by the Laird (Lord)Macdonald to make a fine pair of breeches called trews. To have a bit of fun at the expense of the tailor, a premium is to be paid if the tailor will sew the trews at night in the ruins of a haunted church.
Keywords: audio books; haunted; ghosts; monsters; trews; Sprightly Tailor; children's stories
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| The Invasion of the Terra Cots - Roy Trumbull
They may look like ordinary house plants but they are in fact the deadly pre-invasion advance guard of the Terra-Cots from planet Erg.
Keywords: science fiction; fantasy; humor; sci-fi
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| Water Lilies - Roy Trumbull
The Water Lilies. An American Indian Tale. How a star maiden decided to become a water lily
Keywords: Indian; water lily; folklore; audio book
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| Kickme by Roy Trumbull - Roy Trumbull
This is an orientation lecture for those who've just moved to a state where the residents all have a stake in their exploitation and mistreatment and are convinced that it's a good idea to get the short end of the stick in perpetuity.
Keywords: kickme; politics; kickme states; humor; satire; audio books; Roy Trumbull
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| Joey and Young Mr. Tom by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009 - Roy Trumbull
Joey falls asleep and finds himself on a rail car in 1862 with a young Thomas Edison while the Civil War rages. Because Detroit is adjacent to Canada it was a major station on the Underground Railroad and the crossing point for fugitive slaves. I added mention in the story of the Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King. He was responsible for keeping California from supporting the confederates. For 22 years I worked one block away from his crypt at his church...
Keywords: Joey; Edison; adventure; fiction; historical; Civil War; slavery; Starr King; underground railroad
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| Norse Tales - Roy Trumbull
These are traditional folk tales from Norway. The Bear and the Fox The Boy Who Went to the North Wind East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Giant's Mountain
Keywords: audio book; Norse; Norway; folk tales
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| Aladdin - Roy Trumbull
There are many versions of this classic tale of the young man and the magic lamp. This one contains most of the elements I recall from when I heard this story as a child.
Keywords: audio books; Aladdin; genie; magic lamp; children's stories
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| Accidental Death by Peter Baily - Roy Trumbull
The only survivor of the first starship journey was lucky. Well, maybe. There is a reference in this story to a program on paper tape. I dedicate this reading to those of you who recall loading short programs via the front panel with toggle switches, then running the bootstrap loader and software tapes on the tape reader of a balky ASR-33 teletype. The rest of you pay no attention, go back to your video gizmos...
Keywords: Sci-Fi; luck; audio book; starship; classic sci-fi
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| Alex the Parrot-guin - Roy Trumbull
The tale of a bird half parrot and half penguin who is considered a living god by some and a Hollywood star by others. With his friends Juanita and Ruffa the dog he sails in an ancient Egyptian craft from an island in the Antarctic up to the large penguin colony at Punta Tombo, Argentina and is discovered by a movie company shooting yet another penguin movie. Copyright 2007 by Roy Trumbull I was into the third or fourth chapter of this story and I still had no satisfactory name for my hero...
Keywords: parrot; penguin; Sethites; Punta Tombo; Antarctic; volcano; Bird Island; children's stories; audio book; Roy Trumbull
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| And All The Earth A Grave - Roy Trumbull
A piece of black humor by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp). Through a computer error the advertising manager for a casket company gets 100 times his normal budget and makes death the new cool thing. The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org.
Keywords: death; caskets; fantasy; black humor; satire; audio books; fiction
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| An Earthquake Journal - Roy Trumbull
On this, the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, I read my account from a journal I kept when I worked at KRON-TV.
Keywords: earthquake; Loma Prieta; San Francisco; journal; quake; KRON-TV; geek lit
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| Annie the Goose Girl - Roy Trumbull
Of the many stories I have done this one is a puzzle. It has been downloaded over a thousand times from my site. I'll be interested to see what happens to it on the Internet Archive.
Keywords: fairy tales; Annie the Goose Girl; children's stories
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| Archy Interviews a Pharoah by Don Marquis - Roy Trumbull
This is an introduction to Archy the cockroach who had journalistic ambitions and wrote his stories by diving onto a typewriter keyboard. In Shinbone Alley lived his unruly friend Mehitabel the cat. Both were the inventions of Don Marquis and an internet search will turn up much of his writing as will a trip to the library. This piece was written during prohibition. There was a Broadway show with Eddie Bracken playing Archy and Carol Channing playing Mehitabel.
Keywords: Marquis; Archy; Pharoah; humor; audio book
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| A Sleeping-Car Experience - Roy Trumbull
This short story by Bret Harte tells of an overheard conversation in a Pullman sleeping-car about the rise and fall of an undertaker. This story was abridged.
Keywords: Bret Harte; humor; undertaker; Pullman car
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| A Transmutation of Muddles - Roy Trumbull
A Transmutation of Muddles by Horace Brown Fyfe A judge is sent to a distant planet to mediate between a spaceship captain and an insurance adjuster. The natives have seized the captain's spaceship as a gift from the great god Meeg and are turning it into a temple dedicated to Meeg. The text of this story is available at www.gutenberg.org .
Keywords: Science Fiction; Horace Brown Fyfe; audio book; sci-fi
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| Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick - Roy Trumbull
An alien pig may be tasty but therein lies a novel form of survival and invasion.The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org.
Keywords: Wub; Philip K. Dick; Mars; telepathy; mind control; invasion; Sci-Fi
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| Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick - Roy Trumbull
In this fantasy, the classic threesome is augmented by a pouting homicidal cuckoo clock. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org.
Keywords: Philip K. Dick; fantasy; threesome; cuckoo clock
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| Blue-Jays by Mark Twain - Roy Trumbull
This story is from Mark Twain's Library of Humor. This is the story of a blue-jay who just can't seem to store enough acorns to fill up a hole.
Keywords: blue-jays; Mark Twain; humor
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| Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap - Roy Trumbull
The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap While in England Washington Irving finds that so much has been written about Shakespeare that there isn't much left for him to add. Inspired by Henry IV Part 1, he decides to go to Eastcheap and look up the Boar's Head Tavern which was Falstaff's and Prince Hal's old haunt. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Keywords: Falstaff; Prince Hal; Shakespeare; Boar's Head; Washington Irving
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| Book of Jonah - Roy Trumbull
This is a reading of the Book of Jonah (a.k.a Jonah and the Whale). In a literal translation it is a "big fish" that swallows Jonah. This story is read during Yom Kippur.
Keywords: Jonah; whale; bible
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| The Book of Ruth - Roy Trumbull
The Book of Ruth is very short but it is important. Ruth, who is a Moabitess and a widow, is determined to return with Naomi, her mother-in-law, to Judah. She says, "Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." She ma...
Keywords: audio books; bible; Book of Ruth; Boaz; David; Moab
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| The Box of Robbers by L. Frank Baum - Roy Trumbull
A little girl is curious about a mysterious trunk in the attic that belongs to her Uncle Walter. She finds a key in the household collection that fits the lock. But to her dismay the trunk contains three Italian bandits, very much alive, who complicate her day.
Keywords: bandits; robbers; fairy tales; children's stories; audio books; L. Frank Baum
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| The Tales of Beatrix Potter - Roy Trumbull
This is a collection of tales written by Beatrix Potter of which the most famous is The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter was her own illustrator and the first tale started out as a present for a friend's sick child. A publisher saw it and the rest is history. In the Lake District of England, Mrs. Potter raised sheep and was considered to be quite an expert on them.
Keywords: Peter Rabbit; Beatrix Potter; children's stories; tales
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| Uncle Remus Tales of B'rer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris - Roy Trumbull
These stories were written in dialect prior to the Civil War. In them old Uncle Remus tells the stories of B'rer Rabbit to a young boy. The Tar Baby is a classic that was treated by Disney in "Song of the South". They are good to listen to on a day when you are tired of being politically correct.
Keywords: audio book; Uncle Remus; B'rer Rabbit; Joel Chandler Harris; children's stories
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| Stories of the Brothers Grimm - Roy Trumbull
These are the gritty originals of a few of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. They lack the "improvements" made by others. Rapunzel becomes pregnant by the prince. The wicked queen in Snow White dies wearing red hot steel slippers. There is no fairy godmother or pumpkin coach in Cinderella. The step sisters use self mutilation to fit into the gold slipper (not glass). At the end of the story they are blinded...
Keywords: Grimm; fairy tales; traditional German stories; children's stories
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| Cabellero's Way (Cisco Kid) by O. Henry - Roy Trumbull
As a child, on radio and later television I knew the Cisco Kid as "O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the old west." The character only appears in one story and this is it. He is more infamous than famous. Whether he is intended to be Hispanic or not is never spelled out.
Keywords: audio books; fiction; Cisco Kid; O. Henry; old west; killers
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| Calamity Jane by Martha Cannary Burk - Roy Trumbull
There were many western heros, real and imagined. Martha Cannary Burk was the woman known as Calamity Jane. She was so deadly with a gun that the highway bandits let her go by when she was an express rider. She leaped from her horse onto a runaway stage when the driver had been shot. She was the real thing. She wrote this short account of her amazing adventures. The text for this account may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Keywords: Calamity Jane; old west; adventures; sharp shooter; fighter; strong women
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| The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde - Roy Trumbull
An American family buys Canterville Chase, a property that comes with a ghost whether you want him or no. Sir Simon de Canterville, the ghost, who has scared people to death and madness for 300 years is in turn scared back into his quarters by the twins. As a child I saw the movie with Margaret O'Brien and Charles Laughton. It has been done on TV a number of times but no one actually went back to Oscar Wilde's original story...
Keywords: audio books; ghost; Oscar Wilde; England; children's stories
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| The Capture of Father Time by L. Frank Baum - Roy Trumbull
A young cowboy throws a lasso over Father Time and time stops.
Keywords: L. Frank Baum; fairy tale; children's stories; lasso; cowboy; time; Father Time
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| Certain Death Cola by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008 - Roy Trumbull
A business scheme based upon truth brings riches to those employing it. Imagine a can of high fructose corn syrup cola with a detailed list of all the medical ills drinking it will cause.
Keywords: cola; HFCS; high fructose corn syrup; fiction; audio book; death rockers; Roy Trumbull
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| Chuck's Cipher by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008 - Roy Trumbull
A young man is dead and his friends meet to attempt to decode a message found in his effects.
Keywords: codes; ciphesr; computers; mystery; audio book; Roy Trumbull
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| The Corn Maidens - Zuni Folklore - Roy Trumbull
I found this Zuni folk tale at http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/mlcal.txt . It is from: "Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest" compiled and edited by Katharine Berry Judson
Keywords: audio books; Zuni; Indian; folklore; corn
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| Craphound by Cory Doctorow - Roy Trumbull
How many extra-terrestrials do you get at your yard sales or see at the Salvation Army Thrift shop looking for cowboy and Indian gear? Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE, published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press. The story contains some swear words...
Keywords: crap; rummage; sci-fi; audio books; Cory Doctorow
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| The Defenders by Philip K. Dick - Roy Trumbull
The final war is underway. The remaining humans live underground making war materials. On the surface the battle is in the hands of robots. But these robots have a mind of their own. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org .
Keywords: Philip K. Dick; Sci-Fi; robots; war; under-surface
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| Poems of Lewis Carroll - Roy Trumbull
Poems by Lewis Carroll - The Walrus and the Carpenter and Jabberwocky
Keywords: Lewis Carroll; nonsense; poetry, Alice Through the Looking Glass
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| A Dog In Church by Mark Twain - Roy Trumbull
A Dog In Church by Mark Twain. Anyone who has ever been trapped in the pews while the minister droned on will appreciate this Tom Sawyer Story.
Keywords: Twain; dog; humor; church
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