Tag: short story reading

Short Story Reading: Initiation Season by Sean McElhose

Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss Get to know the writer:   What is your short story about? There’s this sort of frustration I have surrounding certain initiation rituals and in-group thinking. The idea was to create a specific emotion as an example. What genres would you say this story is in? It’s fiction without skewing… Continue reading Short Story Reading: Initiation Season by Sean McElhose

Short Story Reading: Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence, by Melissa R Mendelson

Performed by Laura Kyswaty  Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence is a Dystopian short story, where individuals are forced to speak the truth, but like with any other society, there are those that still lie. But it might be the last lie that… Continue reading Short Story Reading: Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence, by Melissa R Mendelson

Short Story Reading: The Moon Haters by Simon Ciappara

Performed by actor Laura Kyswaty Get to know the writer: What is your story about? Coastal trade around the UK only became smuggling after the imposition of taxes . From the as early as the 13th century “Owlers” as they were known exported wool from the coast of Norfolk evading the duty demanded by the… Continue reading Short Story Reading: The Moon Haters by Simon Ciappara

Short Story Reading: GOD’S HANDS by Michael Coleman

Watch the August 2017 Winning Short Story Reading. Performed by actor Peter-Mark Raphael Get to know the writer: What is your story about? My story is similar to the Fly & Face-Off. Its Gothic Sci-fi medical horror. Why should this story be read by people? I think the right reader might make the story live.… Continue reading Short Story Reading: GOD’S HANDS by Michael Coleman

Short Story Reading of Flatulent Fred by Bill Lawrence

Performed by Val Cole  What is your short story about? Supernatural vengeance against a corporate bully What genres would you say this story is in? Horror, business, computers How would you describe this story in two words? Supernatural vengeance What movie have you seen the most in your life? High Plains Drifter (That’s for real… Continue reading Short Story Reading of Flatulent Fred by Bill Lawrence

Story Transcript Reading of They Drove on Streets Paved with Kindness by John Bauer

Performed by Val Cole Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? They Drove on Streets Paved with Kindness narrates how God operates in strange ways. He never pounds the table, showing who He really is. Instead, He seats the table with a cast of arguing brothers, their irreligious father and Roman… Continue reading Story Transcript Reading of They Drove on Streets Paved with Kindness by John Bauer

Short Story Reading of ARYAN BLOOD by Albert Russo

Performed by Val Cole  Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? A German woman married to a Jewish American learns years later that her biological mother whom she is told to meet was forced to copulate with a blond man in the Lebensborn politics during the Nazi era, in order to… Continue reading Short Story Reading of ARYAN BLOOD by Albert Russo

Winning Short Story: Before and After by S. Pfeiffer

Story performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? The story’s about a woman facing the impact a shocking experience from childhood has had on her life. What genres would you say this story is in? It’s mostly a thriller with a hint of film noir i… Continue reading Winning Short Story: Before and After by S. Pfeiffer

Winning Short Story Reading: Always Watching… by Kordale Gibson

Story performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? My short story is about a man killing someone who he feels deserves to die. The story is told exclusively through this man’s stream of consciousness, revealing his beliefs, motives, & revelations. What genres would you say this… Continue reading Winning Short Story Reading: Always Watching… by Kordale Gibson