by Mark Saintonge | Jan 18, 2018 | Discover, Narration
From a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, narrated by Mark T. Saintonge, offers both insights into 19th century Russian life and a strong theme, exploring what love can do for human beings. The lead character, Simon, a shoemaker, encounters...
by Lee Purcell | Jun 22, 2017 | Discover
The protagonist of any story comes into focus more clearly when pitted against a truly epic villain, one who personifies pure evil and proves a relentless foe. Contending with conflict, of course, is a driving force in any fiction, the avgas that feeds the engine,...
by Sarah Lipton | Feb 12, 2017 | Discover
Written by Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses, was first published in The Little Review in 1919. The tale is narrated by Sarah Lipton. Barnes had a varied and colorful career that included experiential journalism, theater, illustration, modernistic fiction, and...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 22, 2017 | Discover
The Machine Stops, written by E. M. Forster and narrated by Richard Rieman, was likely the inspiration for the movie epic from George Lucas, THX 1138, which bears many similarities to the characters and plot. This science fiction short story is set in an underground...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 21, 2017 | Discover
Read by Jannie Meisberger, From A to Z is the story of a young woman recently graduated from college who confronts the bewildering realities of the working world. The author of this short story, Susan Glaspell, was an independent spirit who earned acclaim for her...
by Lee Purcell | Sep 7, 2016 | Discover
The protagonist of this story by Edgar Allen Poe, an anti-hero if there ever was one, succumbs to the influence of demon rum, to his profound ruination. Narrated by Lee Purcell, the story was first published in The Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. The black...
by Mark Saintonge | Sep 4, 2016 | Discover
At the age of 11, William Hope Hodgson scared the living daylights out of me with his otherworldly, night-dwelling creatures, the swine things, from The House on the Borderland. Every time I would look at a window at night I couldn’t help but imagine the...
by Sarah Lipton | Aug 31, 2016 | Discover
Here’s another intriguing short story by Philip K. Dick, narrated by Sarah Lipton. The farcical nature of the tale seems less so when considered in the context of Dick’s own delusional thought patterns and his explorations of human perception and reality....
