Interrupted Tales

Weird fruit part 3, then a jokey farce about a stranger-in-a-strange-land, a costume ball, quite a bit of lying and possible incestuous jewel thieving.  All set against the background of 1940s Paris, which - now that we think about - seems like a weird time to have a ball but... well, you'll see what happens.  This week's genre: Romantiheist.

"Scrambled Yeggs" is from the anthology "Night Life Tales" Vol. 1, No. 19, and it's a bit risque on the face but not very titillating inside, but obviously we've added a bunch of sexiness just through our husky voices.  So grab an absinthe, and curl up on your favorite divan (that's the correct order in which you would do it, ROB) and sit back while we read you this week's tale.

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Dentistry and peeing your pants - true story?  Then we plunge ourselves into a frightening TRUE ACCOUNT of promises, ghosts, and the noises they make in the dark.   This week's genre: Ghoooossst Stories!

Our tale "My Irish Friend" comes from the collection "Real Ghost Stories" by William T. Stead, a man with a somewhat controversial reputation and a writing style that can best be praised as "note-takingish."  So grab a bottle of laudanum and curl up in your favorite bedchamber while we read you this week's tale.

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The Winter Marblelympics are here and it is time to chant GO GO SAVAGE SPEEDERS! Oh, and there's a story too, something about a miserly couple that has a falling out over pickles and the foxtrot.  This week's genre: Romance then Not Romance.

"Limbering Up Ebenezer" is from the May 1919 edition of Saucy Stories Magazine and it is basically congealed jargon aggressively molded into two columns and three pages. So curl up in your favorite town hall bench and grab a drink of free tap water while we read you this week's tale.

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What is the acceptable age for owning a waterbed? Then, a succinct little fable about some kind of god named the "Earth King" - who may or may not have a Swedish nu-metal band backing him - and his travails hiring contractors.  This week's genre: Fairy Tales.

"The Winds, the Birds, and the Telegraph Wires" is by Revered Jay T. Stocking, and it appears in an anthology entitled "Twenty Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls," arranged and retold by Anna Cogswell Tyler.  It nicely explains why the winds hate the birds and the birds hate wires, but it does not explain how "Birds on a Wire" failed at the box office, so there's still a lot of mystery left in the world.  So curl up in your favorite rainbow bed, and grab a rainbow popsicle and celebrate like it's the Fourth of July, as we read you this week's tale.

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Weird fruits, part two - the paw paw.  After that, Alan reads a yarn of a dying man's confession to a conveniently placed burglar.  This week's genre: Suspense.

"The Devil's Jest" by Robert Terry Shannon comes from the pages of Argosy All-Story Weekly, Dec 15th, 1923, and it concerns the revenge of a man who gets his medical advice from Dr Oz and definitely needs a subscription to the Times.  So curl up in your favorite hospice bed with a glistening revolver as we read you this week's tale.

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Weird fruits, part two - the paw paw.  After that, Alan reads a yarn of a dying man's confession to a conveniently placed burglar.  This week's genre: Suspense.

"The Devil's Jest" by Robert Terry Shannon comes from the pages of Argosy All-Story Weekly, Dec 15th, 1923, and it concerns the revenge of a man who gets his medical advice from Dr Oz and definitely needs a subscription to the Times.  So curl up in your favorite hospice bed with a glistening revolver as we read you this week's tale.

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Weird fruits, part one: the Durian. Then a manx tale from the Isle of Man involving wholesale theft of seagull eggs!  Seriously, people are about to be put in jail over this. This week's genre: Adventure/Mystery/Poetry.

"Twixt Life and Death" by Clucas Jouchin is from the 1905 anthology Fifty-Two Stories for Girls edited by Alfred H. Miles, and there is no doubt that this story is extremely appropriate for girls of all ages who dream of being a sleepwalker and really -- really -- don't care for dogs.  So curl up on your favorite coat and grab a drink while we read you this week's tale.

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Nude wookies! Then we take a lazy stroll on the scientific shores of a tale about a driven inventor and his plumbing issues, which is absolutely CENTRAL to the plot. This week's genre: Super Science!

"The Chemical Magnet" is from the August 1927 edition of Amazing Stories magazine.  Curl up in your favorite ratty beach towel and grab a Bahama Manana Alabama Obama from your closest Margaritaville while we read you this week's tale.

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This episode, Alan escapes from a room through the power of blowing and Rob wonders why we're reading a story about skirts and delicious, grilled Johnsonville brats. It's all followed by a crime drama so baffling in its plot, dialogue, and crime that we think it technically qualifies as outsider art.

"Skirts and Brats" is a crime+morality tale from the September 3rd, 1918 edition of Adventure magazine.  Curl up in your favorite above-the-bar hideout and grab a potato masher while we read you this week's tale.

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Alan is fined by the council for pique, and then we are toasted with a tale of scummy romantic misadventure amongst the backdrop of gorgeous Switzerland, home of waiters with outsized importance to stories.  Join us to learn about Lee Lee Sobieski's poetry, and definitely NOT how to pronounce the word "shemagh."

"Why Men Don't Marry" from the book "Frivolous Cupid" by Anthony Hope, author of Prisoner of Zenda.  We totally spaced out on doing our Ronald Coleman impression in this episode, and we're sorry for that, but you can recreate it by repeating the name "Ronald Coleman" over and over again and successively rolling the R more each time.  

Grab a drink of Kirsch and curl up in your favorite A-frame Swiss chalet, while we read you this week's tale.

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