Dark Softly Tales

They say the devil spins the best yarns. Edgar Allan Poe puts that theory to the test in his chilling short story, Silence—A Fable.

Music: Something Darker by Spectacles Wallet and Watch

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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Rudyard Kipling leads us into another form of silence within the bounds of the jungle where elephants run for their freedom and metamorphosis turns worms into butterflies in Episode 95: Stars in the Rifts.

Music: Is by Sandra Marteleur

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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Listen in this week as Edgar Lee Masters explores the silence spaces between young and old, country and city, war and peace, man and woman and all the vastness between life and death.

Music: Closer to Home - Spectacles Wallet and Watch

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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Silence, sorrow, struggle, shadows, what does it all mean? Where do we fit in? Let Dark Softly Tales take you on a journey through the quiet thoughts of the beautiful mind of Kahlil Gibran.

Music: Lonely Space Rhodes by Eneide

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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The greek root of the word Apocalypse means to reveal or uncover knowledge. Lets uncover the sound of silence through Madison Julius Cawein's stunning words of shadow and light.

The five poems of his I narrate today in very specific order are:

Quiet

Abandoned

At sunset

Apocalypse

After Long Grief

Music: Hovercraft by _91nova

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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Let Dark Softly Tales guide you into Edgar Allan Poe's Dream-Land, where you'll discover silence inside a Dream within a Dream.

Music by Inside Light Ray Vorton

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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This week we take a walk in TS Eliot's dream kingdom under a twinkling of a fading star in The Hollow Men followed by Wait without Hope.

Music: Take a Break by AG Music

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

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I turned a poem I wrote into a song called, "What Does the Silence Sound Like to You?" I hope you all enjoy it. ;-) Write and let me know at [email protected].

We'll be back next week with our Summer Bites program.

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

In the mood for reading? 

Check out Mav’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mav-Skye/e/B00I52M3J6

Check out Mav’s other creative work on her empire website here: www.darksoftlytales.com

Or tweet a hello at: https://twitter.com/DarkSoftlyTales

Our program diverges from the norm this week. I introduce the theme for the Summer Bite series and my experience with the silence within.

Next week, we'll kick off the series with Mav Skye's creation-song-poem-THING called "What Does the Silence Sound Like to You?"

Regular program will start again in the fall.

Music: Ethereal Evening by Luca Francini

Welcome to the Dark Softly Tales Summer Bite series, our theme this year is silence. The summer kicks off in Episode 88. Tune in every week where we bring you bite size pieces of fiction under the silence of a summer sun. 

In the mood for reading? 

Check out Mav’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mav-Skye/e/B00I52M3J6

Check out Mav’s other creative work on her empire website here: www.darksoftlytales.com

Or tweet a hello at: https://twitter.com/DarkSoftlyTales

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson sums up the story’s finale so perfectly.

If you are new to the program, be sure to head back to Eps 78 where we begin our tale of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Music: Dark Times by Kevin Macleod

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