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 know a guy who can tell you whether it's summer or fall just by looking at a calendar. That never worked for me ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 03:05
I was three blocks away from Elmer's Cafe when I caught the first waft of spice in the air ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 05:28
Victor never thought it would be easy. After all, full-grown dragons are as big as a windmill, and tougher than a stone wall ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 03:00
My friend Miles Walker and I were headed for Glory. It wasn't the first time we'd set out in that direction. For some reason, Glory always seems ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 03:20
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an Automatic Attic(™). Just plug it in, turn it on, and it fills any room with a musty odor ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 03:00
Some guy asked me about the size of my carbon footprint. I told him it's exactly the same size as my regular footprint ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 02:32
My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the h...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 02:37
Here's a little Halloween song for the kids ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 01:54
My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind sayin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 03:29
A bunch of us were sitting around Elmer's Cafe the other day, telling ghost stories ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 02:57
My friend Bill O'Sale owns the world's tallest outdoor, coin-operated vacuum cleaner ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 02:52
Ana Gram couldn't understand what was so important about spelling. She knew that letters were important. She knew that letters were used to make ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 03:25
My friend Alfred O. Mega is a genuine, certified hero. It says so right on his diploma ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 03:27
I was helping my friend Vern Acular sort leaves the other day. Vern thinks it's important that all fallen leaves are kept in separate piles accord...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 02:48
Last night I camped out on the banks of Babbling Brook. Boy, did I get an earful! ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 03:08
This one is a children's song about autumn ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: :59
My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer. She helps create new technologies designed to make reading and writing easier - or, at least, that's wh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 02:48
When the universe is out to get you, what does luck have to do with it?
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 02:29
I was out on Bottle Neck the other day. The tide was low, but the rain kept pounding down in endless layers, like sopping wet blankets ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 02:41
There are 57 dead-end streets in this burg. And more roads to nowhere than an honest man can count ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 03:13
