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 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
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
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
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
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
That was the Year of the Whist - or, as some folks called it, the Great Dream Shortage ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
My friend Flora Caprifolia is Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys at a company that sells abstracts ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 02:48
This episode lumps together four short poems and a song fragment. As if Russell the Rooster needed a warmup act ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 01:58
My friend Albie Durned is a private investigator. You may have heard of some of his more famous cases ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 03:07
I was visiting my friend Buddy the other day. Buddy is the kind of host who hates to see a guest empty-handed, so he kept on constantly running in...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 02:52
Vern Acular and I were wandering through the Wandering Hills the other day. We were looking for square inch worms ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 03:06
I tried to catch my friend Stretch in a lie the other day ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Another song for the kids ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 01:11
I'm going to a party later today. Parties aren't really my thing, but this one is a special one ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 02:32
My friend Olive Branch is a conflict resolution specialist. When a client schedules two meetings at the same time, it's Olive's job to evaluate th...
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 02:40
The line in front of Bill O'Sale's latest retail establishment stretched around the block ...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 02:50
So there I was ... NINE days away from the nearest road ... TWELVE days away from the nearest crossroads ... EIGHTEEN days from the nearest town, a...
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Jessica wanted to learn to fly. Of all the magical powers in all the world, she thought flying would be the funnest ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 04:00
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a new kind of headphones ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 02:38
Summer is ... WAS ... a positive role model for us all ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 03:00
