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 caught up with my friend Stretch the other day. He was headed north out of town, along the Coastal Road. I said "hey, Stretch. Where are you g...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 08:55
Another song for the kids: Imagine if you could see yourself in a snowflake! ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 01:22
My friend Vern Acular is a self-taught illuminato of the natural world. He rarely comes into town anymore. Instead, he's always out roaming the W...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Jessica worried that someday, somebody might catch her using magic. That would be disastrous! They wouldn't understand that she only used her pow...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 04:42
I found my friend Vern Acular standing at the top of Down Hill with a very long stick in his hands. He looked like he was about to play piñata wit...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Something's in the 'fridgerator, rotten eggs! ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 01:12
My friend Bugsy Diptera and I were tramping around out near Wunsa Pond the other day ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 05:42
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking through the Great Empty Desert when we stomped unexpectedly on a sidewalk ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 05:34
I didn't really expect a farewell party when I walked into Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 04:55
Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 01:32
My friend Rita Book recently started working on a new lexical engineering project. Most of her projects are designed for print media, but I heard ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:11
My friend Stretch likes to tell everybody he's living on borrowed time. I said "really? Whose time did you borrow?" ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 02:58
My friend Archie Meade claims you have to know how to do calculus in order to catch a ball in mid-air ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54
The guy in charge of winter was up there kicking the clouds again - shaking loose as many snowflakes as he thought he could get away with ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Rose Bush had three pen pals: one black, one blue, and one red ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 04:00
My friend Stanley Oliver Terrick is a student of obscure mischievous activity ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 02:37
My friend Evelyn Devlin is a bit of a romantic. Most poets are, I suppose ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 03:23
Vern Acular and I were lolling around in a clearing in the woods, trying to scoop together enough motivation to pack up our things and get moving ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 03:01
Nobody ever says grace at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2015
- Length: 03:10
Here's another little children's song. It's about trees shedding their leaves while we humans bundle ourselves up ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:37
