Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
Series produced by Rick Taylor
Stories and short humor by Abner Serd
Storyteller Abner Serd specializes in short humor with a twist. His stories often pull the listener out of the normal sphere of reality and into a surrealistic landscape populated with eccentric characters who nonchalantly redefine common sense. Think of these stories as comic strips for the ears: short, daily doses of whimsy. What yarns will Abner spin today? As Jimmy Fingerbutton the inventor once put it, "the world is full of things nobody ever thought of before."
Abner Serd is the pseudonym and alter ego of Rick Taylor. This series originally appeared as a podcast - the podcast feed can be found at: http://abnerserd.com/feed.xml
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My friend Vaudeville Bill wants to be a comedian. He's always trying out "new" material ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 02:11
I heard a rumor the other day. I heard it on the wind, which means it could have come from anywhere ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 02:40
Here's another little song for the kids:
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 01:45
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a new kind of dehumidifier ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 02:28
My friend Bill O'Sale is launching a new business venture ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 02:37
My friend Bugsy Diptera talked me into joining his little hunting expedition out on the Great Salt Marsh this morning ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 02:48
My friend Gnarly Carl is an oak tree. I'm pretty sure he wasn't ALWAYS an oak tree ... I get the impression in his younger days, he was really pop...
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 02:27
On the first day of school, Robert's teacher said his name 27 times. Robert was worried about that ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 03:09
My friend Stretch claims there's an upside-down mountain out by Fargone, at the base of the Kitchen Range ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 02:52
I woke up this morning only to find my teeth were already awake ...
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 02:48
My friend Lou Strator is an artist. He used to live in a wooden shack down by the beach ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2015
- Length: 02:25
My friend Archie Meade is developing a new literary genre. It's called "arithmefiction." He said "it's like science fiction, only it's about math...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Another little song for the kids ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 01:51
I was picnicking out on Wild Side the other day. I had a nice salad of purslane and wood sorrel leaves, with a dressing made of crushed blueberrie...
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 02:56
My friend Flora Caprifolia is Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys at a company that makes what she calls TRIPS ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 02:45
I was sitting on the banks of Jagged Creek the other day, just watching the world float by ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 02:42
My friend Clara Boyd believes there's a secret alphabet hidden somewhere deep within the usual A B C D E, and so on ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 02:18
Mark Page found himself in a book one day. He was quite surprised by this. He didn't know anybody else in the book ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 02:50
My friend Miles Walker and I were only three days south of There when the clouds hailed us ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 02:28
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton is reinventing the wheel. I said "great! Then you can re-tire!" ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:05
