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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I was combing the beach out on Bottle Neck this morning - just cleaning up after the squall that blew through overnight ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 02:40
My friend Lou Scannon tends to say things without thinking ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 02:28
Another poem for the children ...
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 01:42
My friend Sophie Moore is a college student. She's majoring in literal arts ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 03:15
Stanley Oliver Terrick was eating a dumpster when I walked into Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 02:56
My friend Tim Keeper walked up to me the other day and handed me a button ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 02:35
My friend Foster Goodwill just got named ambassador to the Kingdom of Microstan ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 02:19
The Flower House is what Mary called it. She walked by the house on Blossom Lane almost every day - even if she didn't have to ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:59
Vern Acular and I were picking our way carefully and quietly through a grove of crabapple trees the other day ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 02:47
My friend Brian Teaser is a professional ideologist. That means he sits in a room all day long, sorting through loose jumbles of thoughts and vagu...
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 02:50
I brought my fishing pole up to the top of Sneak Peak the other day. Sneak Peak isn't the tallest mountain around, but it's very shy ...
- Added: Sep 07, 2015
- Length: 02:40
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a new kind of sparkling water. He calls it Flash Water (™). Instead of bubbles, is has tiny pinpoints of li...
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 02:54
Abner sings a fun, mildly spooky song for the kids ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 01:18
A few days ago, I introduced my friend Stretch to a true story. I don't think he's ever met one before ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 02:25
My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer for a company that manufactures literary devices ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 02:59
I woke up this morning with the distinct impression that I could feel my fingernails getting longer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 02:38
Guy and a dog walk into a bar ...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 03:18
Young Brian had a question. That was no surprise - Brian almost always had a question ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 03:09
I went to visit my friend Buford Colic the other day. That was a mistake. No sooner did I turn up at Buford's farm than he put me to work harvest...
- Added: Sep 17, 2015
- Length: 02:45
By the time I got to Elmer's Cafe, it was all over. Pancake batter dripped off the walls. The countertop was covered in syrup. Doc was gone. St...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 02:45