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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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“I lined up a new gig for you,” said the Glovemaster. “All you have to do is protect one special guy.” I sat in my trailer with my Bluetooth headphones on and my laptop perched on an Amazon box. I wore a boonie hat with a militia logo. | © 2023 by John Kessel & Bruce Sterling. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…
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365 Short Stories ep.651 A story a day for all of 2023. Here are some of the author's favorites. Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedian, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated CONCIERGE: THE SERIES, starring SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Kate McKinnon. His short comedy LEMON premiered at Tribe…
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Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 5 (book 5) ep.650 A Royal Pain Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-risk-and-relativity/ 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://talltaletv.com/series-of-…
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When the Sea Calls ep.649 Too many broken promised can lead to a broken spirit. N.V. Devlin writes dark and speculative fiction to better make sense of the world. N.V. was the 1st Runner-Up for Indecent Magazine's 2022 Queer Quivers Contest and has had or will have work appear in the Creepy Podcast, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and Rebellion LIT's …
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The Ammuntadore ep.648 Even Nightmares Have Their Demons. Luis Paredes is a horror, fantasy, and weird fiction writer living in New York. When not crafting strange tales, you can find Luis tinkering with old typewriters, drawing, or pursuing his other passion—running. His debut novella, Out On a Limb, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and oth…
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Risen ep.647 War is the same everywhere, only the soldiers change. Andrew has been writing and publishing short stories for the past decade. They have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Penumbric and on the No Sleep Podcast. His fantasy novella, Children of the Arc, was published in 2023 by TWB Press. He currently lives in Ar…
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Dr. Nirwater Leera only agreed to study Mr. Girat because he is supposed to be dead. Tomorrow, they will meet in person for the first time. But today, Leera wastes time by staring at a cellophane bag full of Girat’s vomit. | © 2023 by Lowry Poletti. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 4 (book 5) ep.646 Trash Cow. Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-risk-and-relativity/ 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://talltaletv.com/series-of-ba…
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The Tachyon Solution ep.645 A Private eye, a dead billionaire, and one crazy day. Greg Tulonen writes novels and screenplays, short stories and comic books, web series and audio dramas, and an occasional play. His projects include the award-winning supernatural web series "Ragged Isle," the acclaimed vampire graphic novel "Night is Falling," and th…
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The Thirteenth Labour ep.644 5 billion years has led the space probe Heracles to this moment. Simon Kewin is a writer of fantasy and sci/fi, with over 400 publications to his name. He's the author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter, steampunk Gormenghast saga Engn, the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of…
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The Honey Cake ep.643 People living deeply have no fear of death. Matias Travieso-Diaz is a Cuban-born retired lawyer, engineer, and failed painter, and a collector of Maria Callas recordings. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his daughter, two dogs and a world class inventory of weeds, and describes himself as an "Animal Farm's goat, Packers …
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The soldiers slit the woman’s throat every evening before bedding down so they can sleep without worry. She mocks them but never fights the knife coming to her. Two of the men still take turns watching her in case she heals before the rest of the cadre wakes. | © 2023 by Sloane Leong. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. V…
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Don't Forget Your Goat ep.642 No Inquisitor has ever killed a dragon. Rick Danforth is a BSFA award nominated author from Yorkshire, England, where he works as a Systems Architect to fund his writing habit. When not working valiantly in the plot mines, he can be found doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a type of involuntary yoga with uncomfortable pyjamas.…
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Big, Bad Ships from Outer Space ep.641 A retired Grand Master of the space fleet thought his time in the captain's chair was over, that he could finally spend more time with his wife and cook fancy meals for her, but... he was wrong. Jason Lairamore is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror who lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife an…
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Muna shuts the storeroom door as quietly as she can. Holding a just-waxed bundle of letters to her chest, she sticks out her head to check the bookshop floor. If she walks between the shelves on the far right, she can slip out unnoticed in ten heartbeats. The main door of the bookshop is propped open, the sun shining after what feels like a year of…
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Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 3 (book 5) ep.640 An Ice Plan. Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-risk-and-relativity/ 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://talltaletv.com/series-of-…
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One Life in a Day ep.639 Identity was no longer a constant. The author's prose has been sold to the Sci Phi Journal, Twenty Two Twenty Eight, Creepy Podcast, The Fifth Di..., and City River Tree. He resides in Saratoga Springs, NY ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story …
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Bogies in the Storm ep.638 A fighter pilot is sent into a storm, but finds more than he expected. Michael D. Burnside is a graduate of Ohio University. By day, he earns a living as a systems analyst, helping customers figure out what they need from their software. His interests include gaming, science, computer technology, history, politics, and, o…
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Quiet, She Has Legs! ep.637 Who still had legs? It wasn't possible. Emmie Christie’s work includes practical subjects, like feminism and mental health, and speculative subjects, like unicorns and affordable healthcare. She has been published in various short story markets including Daily Science Fiction, Infinite Worlds Magazine, and Flash Fiction …
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Sunday Servings ep.636 This was not the life he wanted but was forced to take, and the man beside him would take anything that he damn well wanted. But he would bite off more than he could chew. Melissa R. Mendelson is a Poet and Horror, Science-Fiction and Dystopian Author. Her short stories have been published by Sirens Call Publications, Dark He…
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I need a binge-worthy banger about the incident on Titan. Let’s start with that one picture from Titan that leaked, the one of the weird fishes in those underwater ruins dying. Let’s get going with a second-person narration of You looking at it, thinking about how extinction just happened, and your hands are trembling, and history---your memories o…
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Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 2 (book 5) ep.635 You Better Not Be Dandelion. Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-risk-and-relativity/ 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://talltalet…
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Stray Fire and Toppled Heads ep.634 After messing up a spell, a wizard loses his head and must escape a family of angry trolls. John Oakes is an emerging writer who is currently studying creative writing at Western Washington University. In his free time, he writes, reads, and writes some more. His work can be found in Lovecraftiana: The Magazine o…
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Call me Philoctetes. My real name doesn’t matter, and I wouldn’t be allowed to tell you what it is, anyway. Security concerns, you understand. What you need to know about me is that I was a US Army Green Beret---one of the Quiet Professionals. Usually tasked with working with the locals in counterinsurgency efforts and the like. The stuff that does…
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Exotic Fish Subscription Service ep.633 David Mortimer was born in East London and is still there. He enjoys crosswords, crisps, and writing stories about knights and postal workers. ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to …
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Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 1 (book 5) ep.632 A Nude Begining. Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/series-of-risk-and-relativity/ 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://talltaletv.com/series…
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Haggis, Rhino and Other Unexpected Wildlife ep.631 Gareth D Jones is unofficially the second most widely translated science fiction short story author in the world, having been published in 31 languages. He is a father of five, two of whom are also published authors. He lives in the UK where he writes stories and reviews, fuelled by copious amounts…
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Test Amongst the Shadows ep.630 Todd Sullivan currently lives in Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches English as a Second Language. He has had more than two dozen short stories, poems, essays, and novelettes published across five countries. He currently has two book series through indie publishers in America. He writes for a Taipei web and play ser…
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The most beautiful boy you have ever seen in your life is hot-wiring a spaceship. It’s an objectively unsexy spaceship, insofar as a spaceship can be unsexy---a six-seater built like a 2008 Honda Odyssey, a car model you’re only aware of because it continues to appear in memes. The boy is decidedly not unsexy, though. His name is Eddie, he’s your x…
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A Game of Balances ep.629 D. A. D'Amico exists solely in the nightmares of a giant squid currently traversing the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench under the crushing depths of the Pacific Ocean. As legend has it, the cephalopod inks its bizarre musings on the flanks of passing beaked whales, later to be read by bored dolphins seeking entertainment, and who, …
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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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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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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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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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