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 Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 05:35
What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 01:52
The other day down at Elmer's Cafe, a bunch of us regulars were bragging about our most dangerous escapades and feats of derring-do ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:20
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 11:38
In Upper Tidwell lived a boy Named Jeremiah Crumping / Who couldn't stand for very long without commencing jumping ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 03:34
My friend Stretch claims to know more about nothing than anybody else on the planet. He said “believe me, there's a lot more to it than most peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:45
Marco always dreamed about traveling to faraway places. All his life, he had never been anywhere – unless you counted his grandmother's house, whi...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 04:42
By the way, Vern swears there are no dragons in this story ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 04:11
Here's a little song in honor of the Springtime planting season ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 01:40
Well, I'll say one thing about the Gumption Track: it's well-marked. The roadies did not skimp on signage, even though it seems like they never a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 10:17
Here's another little song for the kids: when you think about it, bees are just Nature's miniature flying alarum clocks ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 01:53
There were two new faces down at Elmer's Cafe the other day. I walked in the door, saw this young couple sitting on the six and seven stools, talk...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 08:13
Theophilus Papadopoulos had to write an essay for school. It was supposed to be about a famous philosopher, and it couldn't be about anybody he kn...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Well, the rain never let up, from dawn till dusk ... although, in all fairness, I don't know if you could even call it a dawn, seeing as how nobody...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Here's a little song about a snowman who rolled into town at the tail end of Winter ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 01:54
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking down the Yonder Track on our way to Glory not too long ago. You know Glory – the legendary city where all...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 05:53
Sue Spender was on her way to school one morning when she found a penny lying heads-down on the sidewalk. She wondered how it got there. Could it...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 06:32
As far as I'm concerned, Gumption is the kind of place where the only reason to go there is to say you've been there ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Young Brian was always asking questions. He wanted to know how the world worked. He wanted to know why it worked. He wanted to know when it work...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:52
