Prose

"The Death of Freedom" by David Ezell is a timely poem pondering trying times.

Come experience a town with two stoplights, three churches, and a small dose of conflict.

In "My Little Creatures," meet some individuals with imagination.

"The Boy in the Well", Chapter 1 begins us on a journey of discovery with a young boy.

Hello and welcome to episode twelve of Prose. This week, we will take a journey of discovery with a young boy, meet some individuals with imagination, and experience a town with two stoplights, three churches, and a small dose of conflict. We also have a bonus episode that considers liberty through verse. This episode of Prose marks a major first, in that all three short stories and the bonus poem are all from authors that submitted work to the podcast. Episode 12.1 features Nicholas B. Morris, Episode 12.2 features Alena Abrosimova, Episode 12. 3 features Jack Lee. The bonus episode features David Ezell. More about these authors can be found in each of their episodes.

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Thank you for taking the time to listen to Prose. Let's get to the tales, shall we?

This week, we have chapter one of "The Boy in the Well" by Nicholas B. Morris, "My Little Creatures" by Alena Abrosimova, "The Origin of Shadow" by Jack Lee, and the bonus "Freedom's Death" by David Ezell."

"Any Given Sunday" takes a trip to a Southern Baptist church in the South on a Sunday.

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The piano backing tracks for this story were performed from my dear mother. The rain sound effect comes from Freesound.org and was provided by user Jongrubbs under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The beautiful loop at the end of the track comes from Little Robot Factory and is used under a Creative Commons attribution license 3.0.

"Love Lost" examines a once beautiful goddess that is now wasting away.

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The backing tracks for "Love Lost" was taken from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org, an amazing community of artists that set out to help one another through the sharing of their art. These tracks are "Dances and Dames" and "Night at the Docks," both from the amazing Kevin MacLeod. A sincere thank you to Mr. MacLeod and the Free Music Archive for the contribution. This track is being used under a Creative Commons attribution share alike license 3.0.

"A Lesson for Ducklings" by Nicholas B. Morris looks into the brutal realities of nature.

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Nicholas B. Morris grew up in Arkansas but fell in love with Colorado. His stories and other assorted writings have been published in The Harpoon Review, Cliterature, Connotation Press, Danse Macabre Online, and Nebo. He has published two short story collections, the full-length Tapeworm and the chapbook The Boy in the Well, both with the now sadly defunct Monkey Puzzle Press. (You can buy copies of Tapeworm from him directly on Amazon.) He works in his dream job as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Community College of Denver and watches endless re-runs of Star Trek with his partner Alyssa Piccinni.

Mr. Morris tweets at @totallynotNickM.

Caleb Hicks produced the original audio for the narrative. He and Mr. Morris worked closely together on the spoke album of Mr. Morris's stories called The Boy in the Well.

The backing tracks for this story were taken from MusOpen at musopen.org. Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. They provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. As they say, their mission is to set music free. The track used here is "When You Last Say Goodbye" by York Bowen. MusOpen lists this track as anonymously uploaded. A sincere thank you to MusOpen.org for the contribution. This track is being used under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 license.

Hello and welcome to episode eleven of Prose. This episode takes a trip to a Southern Baptist church in the South on a Sunday, looks into the brutal realities of nature, and examines a once beautiful goddess that is now wasting away. The second of thee three stories, "A Lesson for Ducklings," is the third from Prose's current guest author in residence, Nicholas B. Morris. More information about Mr. Morris and his works can be heard in episode 11.2.

If you are enjoying Prose, Please head over to iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or the podcast-catcher of your choice and leave a rating and/or review. Also, follow Prose on Twitter through @prosepodcast.

Thank you for taking the time to listen to Prose. Let's get to the tales, shall we?

This week, we have "Any Given Sunday," "A Lesson for Ducklings" by Nicholas M. Morris, and "Love Lost."

Enjoy!

In the wake of the 2017 US Presidential Inauguration, Episode 10.3 reminds us all upon what ideas the USA was founded by way of the words of Thomas Paine.