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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
“A Time for Heroes”
As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 31:54
- Purchases: 1
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 30:40
If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 21:26
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 04:27
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:39
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 01:51
Adipose Rex was the fattest king in Thebes
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: :23
Can a contemporary bard achieve immortality?
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: :44
- Added: Dec 20, 2009
- Length: 01:43
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: :41
- Purchases: 1
Having an affair wasn’t bad. Getting caught was bad.
- Added: Jun 04, 2009
- Length: 01:09
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 01:00:16
- Purchases: 1
