Faded Words

If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it ... it is much too good for anyone else!

Written by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

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Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

Welcome to the AIC Stories very first edition of the special monthly(ish) bonus episode for the AIC Stories "Story Club" roundtable chat in which I sit down with listeners and members of the AIC Stories Official Discord as we discuss the story that we chose to read/watch for that month.

This month we're chatting about the fantastic book from author V.E. Schwab, 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue'.

Subscribe and Listen anytime on the Official Website,  or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “AIC Stories”! Of course you can also find links to the Official Discord right at aicstories.com!

Music written and produced by David Szweduik

A man may wish he'd married his first love and not really mean it. But an insincere wish may turn ugly in dimensions unknown.

Written by: Evelyn E. Smith

Originally published in Fantastic Universe September 1955

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

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Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

It was an unexplored planet and anything

could happen—yet none of us expected to face a

creature impossible to fight, let alone kill....

Written by: Randall Garrett

Originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

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Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

There are many ways—murder included—in which husbands can settle certain problems. This was even more drastic!

 Written by: Richard R Smith

Originally published inFantastic Universe in August 1958

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

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Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog

Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

With Wilber, and the beast, on the loose, we find out if the residents of Dunwich can manage to stop this world ending threat! Will they put an end to the horror or will this Eldritch Horror consume the world?

Written by: H.P. Lovecraft

Originally published inWeird Tales Magazine in April 1929

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

Theme Music:

Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as "Yog-Sothoth"). Strange events surround his birth and precocious development.

Written by: H.P. Lovecraft

Originally published inWeird Tales Magazine in April 1929

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

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Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

Meeting the little man who isn't there is rated an horrendous experience. But discovery that the man is there may be even worse.

Written by: Albert Hernhuter

Originally published in Fantastic Universe January 1954

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

Theme Music:

Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with—

Written by: Lester del Ray

Originally published in IF Worlds of Science Fiction in June 1954

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

Theme Music:

Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik

Working the night wire on the news desk can be an excruciatingly boring task, but as Jim found out, sometimes the truly bizarre can come across the news and shake you to your core.

This story was a listener submission by Twitter user @Weird_Friction

Written by: H. F. Arnold

Originally published in Weird Tales in 1926

Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.

Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.

Theme Music:

Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik