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Title: Low-Limb High: A Short Story

Author: Nick Wisseman

Narrator: Kathleen Godwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-13

Publisher: Nick Wisseman

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Caroline's brother ran away from home shortly after her dad walked out. She doesn't know why either left.

Then she finds her dad's watch.

It's not particularly pretty, and it doesn't tell time anymore, but when she inserts the family heirloom into her home-made dioramas, the shoeboxes' static scenes come to life and reenact the series of events that led to her household's disintegration.

"Low-Limb High" first appeared in Bewildering Stories, issue 339, June 2009.

Members Reviews:

Low-limb high

Low-limb High starts out slow, as the story progresses the reader is slowly engaged. Each scene builds upon the next, until the final shocking ending. The reader is slowly pulled along with the protagonist, and when the answers to her questions are finally given the emotional upheaval caused by the revelation is felt. Low-Limb High is a story, about betrayal, secrets and the harm that can be done by a person's actions. Low-Limb High shows the same High-Quality and engaging writing that is present in many of this author's previous works.

Disclaimer: Story was obtained from author for an honest review

Keeps you guessing

A girl in search of the answers for the disappearance of her father and brother. A simple watch will lead the way.

Caroline makes a diagram of her house hoping it will give her the answers.

Are the answers comforting? Or are they more painful than not knowing at all?

This story was very intriguing. It kept me hanging on trying to guess where it was going. It wasn't what I imagined it would be at all.

There was quite a twist at the end which was exciting.

4/5 It ran a little slow at parts, but the overall story and the twist were interesting.

Strong prose, just missing a sense of time.

I read this as part of Underhill's collection "Outcasts" and this one was really interesting. The concept was so strong, but I kept getting tripped up because I just had no sense of time or age-relation in the story. It may not bother everyone, but it was really distracting for me. The descriptions and allusions, the way it was built were so well done, but that confusion really took away from settling in completely.

Keeps you reading till the end

This story has such a unique take and twist. It captures your attention from the beginning and keeps it until the end. I felt like I could see the diorama come to life as I read the story. It's a magical and interesting world Mr. Underhill has created. I would definitely recommend this story to a friend.

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Title: The Parrot Who Rode the Thunder

Author: Everett Peacock

Narrator: Shandon Loring

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-12

Publisher: Everett Peacock

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

An excerpt from the book:

"Tiwaka Goes to Waikiki": Tiwaka, our favorite adventurous macaw leaves the Maui Tiki Bar as he re-learns to fly. Unfortunately, he gets sucked up into a tropical storm that deposits him on another island in Waikiki. There he becomes the true hero of all the captive street birds of this Hawaiian resort town.

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Title: Hot Christmas

Author: Will Bevis

Narrator: Lynn Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-12

Publisher: Will Bevis

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

It's a typical Christmas Eve. All except for the hot weather. And the head.

From the Author of a top-100 free eBook for Kindle, "The Killing of Train-Man Brown".

Please Note: This is a short story.

Members Reviews:

Great beginning that didn't go anywhere

This short "story" wasn't really a story at all. It certainly has the beginning of a great story, but it doesn't go anywhere. The whole thing is only laying the foundation for the story - building the groundwork - telling us the important background information we are going to need for the mystery of the head.

However, once the groundwork is built, the building crew closes up shop and leaves so that is all we get: a great beginning with nowhere to go. It's rather like pouring a foundation for a house and then not building a house. You might even have some of the walls up, but that is all. No one can live there or even call it a house yet.

I really like what we are given in these first few pages, but we really need the rest of the story. We have been left hanging, and that is not fair. I almost gave only 2 stars because I felt so cheated, but I gave 3 because what little we did have was such a promising beginning. Do us all a favor and finish this story. At the end of this book even you said you had originally planned to make it longer. So do it!

Over Worked Postal Workers Don't Notice a Head in a Mail Box

Doesn't really have much to do with Christmas except it's that time of year so the postal service is short staffed and the workers tired. Basically a severed head is put into a mail box and no one notices. The tale gives no explanation to who the head is, how it got there, or what will go on after the head is discovered. It's a couple of minutes read so if is still free give it a go, but it's missing too much to pay money for it.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem and Other Stories

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Basil Rathbone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Four classic Sherlock Holmes stories read by Basil Rathbone, in which the great detective matches wits with Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, in a chase across Europe.

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Title: Night Connections 3

Author: Dick Summer

Narrator: Dick Summer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-12

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Night Connections 3, the soulful follow-up to Night Connections and Night Connections 2, is a collection of stories, mostly collected from listeners of Dick Summer's middle-of-the-night radio program on NBC Radio. They are very short connections, but they will stay with you for as long as you stay with them.

Connections are fragile. It is only touching you that gives them life. Dick Summer has one of America's most familiar voices. He's heard every day on national telelvision commercials, and he spent many years as a radio personality in New York and Boston. He's also a poet, a pilot, and hypnotist.

Members Reviews:

I love it! The stories with Dick Summer audio books ...

I love it! The stories with Dick Summer audio books are my sleeping pill ! I own them all ! Wish there were more! Does anyone know if he has a page with podcasts? Highly recommend his soothing voice and the little stories he makes into detailed descriptions in just a small frame of time! Dick Summer! Please record more bedtime stories!!! A devoted and addicted lister!5 STARS easilyâïâïâïâï

Night Connections 3 by Dick Summer

Well once again the master has done it. Peering into our inner most thoughts and telling them to us out loud. The difference here is that there are some "connections" that surprise us. Surprise us in ways that make us smile, and in ways that we say, "didn't see that one coming". His craftsmanship with words is why we keep coming back again and again, not to mention that silky smooth "like comfort food" voice of his. One example of his phrasing from "Neighbors" is where we would say something like our heart is broken, Dick puts it in a very simply phrased "your heart is black and blue". Simple yes, did I think of that, no. That is what makes him who he is. His powers of observation, his naked eye for detail, and then having the guts to say it, are what makes this disc stand out. I think you will not only thank him for Night Connections 3, but yourself for being smart enough to get it.

Night Connections 3

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Title: Taken! 5: Young Love

Author: Donald Wells

Narrator: Christopher Eicher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-12

Publisher: Year Zero Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Couples meet in many ways, but when beautiful young, Jessica White awakened to find herself naked and tied to a bed, the last thing on her mind was romance. However, terror soon morphed into an intense fascination with her captor and her innate understanding of human nature allowed her to see past his actions and into his heart.

Meanwhile, Jessica's father was being threatened by a serial killer with a personal grudge. But Dr. White is in luck because his daughter's made a new friend, and he may be the only thing deadlier than the man that stalks him.

From the author of Taken! comes the fifth book in the series: Taken! 5: Young Love.

Members Reviews:

Loved it

I have read some of the books from this author, and I liked them all, so I decided to give this one a shot. It did not disappoint at all. As with all books in the 'Taken!' series, 'Taken! 5' was full of action, suspense, and romance. Despite being a short story, there is a good amount of character development throughout the book.

This was an overall fun book to read through. Any fan of thriller/suspense/mystery books should take the time to read through this.

And Now We Know The Rest Of The Story

This story takes you back to the very beginning of the life of Jessica White and her abductor (future husband). It fills in some voids and you discover why they are so close. These are wonderful short stories which relate to each other and can be read mostly during a lunch break.

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Title: As an Angel Might Sleep: Never Turn Away

Author: Will Bevis

Narrator: Lynn Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-12

Publisher: Will Bevis

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Wow!"

"What a story!"

"Is this true?"

From the author of a Top 100 Free for Kindle Story "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" comes As An Angel Might Sleep: Never Turn Away.

A lost love story...brought together again in a beautiful snow....

Members Reviews:

Ending didn't make sense to me

Not one of my favorites. Sometimes I can't figure out the point of Will's stories, and this is one of those times. I have no idea where the end of this story went, but it totally lost me. (Spoiler alert?) Why does going to work mean losing the love of your life? It doesn't mean you can't go home after work: most of the world does so every time they go to work for the day. Clearly I missed something.

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Title: The Last Fling of the Flexible Chicken and other Dead Romantic Nuggets

Subtitle: A Collection of Short Stories for Adults by the The Wye Valley Writers

Author: Zina Pearce-Tomenius, Rosemary Parkhouse, Susan Peterken, Rachel Prosser, Pam Robinson, Audrey Tullet, Teddy Weisse

Narrator: full cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-12

Publisher: Aquarium Audio Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In the Wye Valley Writers' first audio anthology, discover the truth about love with tales of dogs, zombies, chickens and vampires. Whether looking for love, finding it on the side, or falling out of love, there is a story for all. Join a mysterious stranger searching for his dream in the dead of night, sympathise with Henry and his broken home, and mourn the loss of Gloria. You will find stories to make you laugh or scream, poems reflecting on love in later life, and a little of every emotion, in this collection inspired by love's many faces.

Members Reviews:

Interesting but not Fascinating

Short , short stories with some promise for satisfying reading. I guess a short story leaves one hanging on the proverbial limb in a way that is unfulfilling. Why bother is my overall thought. One must have "some" interest in zombies as well (afraid I don't).

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Title: True Stories

Subtitle: A Digital Short

Author: Vincent Zandri

Narrator: Jim McCance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-12

Publisher: Aaron Patterson

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"True Stories" is one of Vincent Zandri's most anthologized short stories. Based on the true story of Zandri having tackled and apprehended a car thief who was rampaging through his upstate New York neighborhood, this literary thriller begins with a 'seed of truth' around which grow invented circumstances - the result being a clever mesh of truth and creation.

Members Reviews:

A Dark Tale Told Well

If you could sum up True Stories in three words, what would they be?

Cathartic, moving, dark

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

This story paints a detailed picture of lives filled with tragedy and loss. It's not necessarily for the faint of heart, but it's an important tale of what individuals go through during some of the most trying times humans can endure.

What about Jim McCances performance did you like?

McCance's voice is filled with exactly the right amount of grim acceptance and heartfelt emotion. We're in the hands of a real pro here. This important yet difficult story needed a narrator exactly like him. Brilliant performance.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I came close to tears a few times over this brief story.

Any additional comments?

Listeners should prepare themselves for a dark journey, but it's a journey well worth taking.

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Title: Small Packages

Author: Phil Pino

Narrator: Kevin Pierce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-12

Publisher: Alex Torres

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Every family has issues. In Filipino families sometimes those issues stretch across oceans and involve multiple generations. Small Packages is a short story detailing how decisions made in one generation, affect those in the next. Sometimes those decisions are tragic. But like many, we hope they are positive and filled with love.