Reading in the Attic Podcast

In part 2 of Harsh Climate, Vicki arrives at the farmhouse and has a bit of trouble, while Denver takes the long way around. We also meet the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 6 - "Harsh Climate" Part 2. (21 minutes)

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This is the novella version, and should take

seven episodes to complete.  For those interested in reading the ebook,

you can find it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple's iBookstore, as well as other ebook vendors.

See you in the funny papers.

This week we begin "Harsh Climate," a light thriller about a pair of runaway teens who stumble across a kidnapping plot while seeking shelter from cold weather.

I first wrote those as a low budget screenplay -- with less emphasis on the effects and more on the actors, and limited location.  This is the novella version, and should take seven episodes to complete.  For those interested in reading the ebook, you can find it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple's iBookstore, as well as other ebook vendors.

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 5 - "Harsh Climate" Part 1. (26 minutes)

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Or you can subscribe via iTunes -- which can help the podcast's popularity. (You can also review it there.)

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those who want to subscribe in a third party podcast app, the manual

subscription link is:

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See you in the funny papers.

Fans of Mick and Casey will be happy to learn that week's story is "The Hoosegow Strangler" - the first Mick and Casey mystery ever published.  It's a locked-room puzzle, when a man is murdered right under Mick and Casey's noses, they have to solve a locked room mystery to save their reputations.

For those who are new to Mick and Casey, you can find this story in the small, FREE, mystery short story collection, Waiter, There's a Clue In My Soup! (Which also includes another Mick and Casey story - "The Trail of the Lonesome Stick-pin.") It's available (free!) for Kindle, Nook, and Apple's iBookstore.

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 3 - "The Hoosegow Strangler". (29 minutes)

Or you can listen right here:

Or you can subscribe via iTunes -- which can help the podcast's popularity. (You can also review it there.)

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those who want to subscribe in a third party podcast app, the manual

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See you in the funny papers.

A noir Christmas tale. Also, a Catly Christmas Carol.

"Deadmen Don't Eat Fruitcake" -- two tough guys face down a wily old lady, in this noir crime story about jewels hidden in a fruitcake.   And yes, I actually sing for you, in this episode -- a Christmas carol I wrote for my cat's webpage - "We Three Cats."

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 3 - "Deadmen Don't Eat Fruitcake". (13 minutes)

Or you can listen right here:

Or you can subscribe via iTunes -- which can help the podcast's popularity. (You can also review it there.)

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See you in the funny papers.

Three very short stories today.  First up, Hemingway's 6-word story about the baby shoes, and the story I wrote in response: "The Unexpurgated Story of the Baby Shoes Which Were Sold Unused." Finally a dark micro-fiction story: "You Kids, Get Off My Lawn."

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 2 - Baby Shoes and Other Dark Things. (18 minutes)

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Or you can subscribe via iTunes -- which can help the podcast's popularity.  (You can also review it there.)

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See you in the funny papers.

The first story in the Reading in the Attic Podcast, is "For Belgium" by J.J. Bell.  It was first published in The Strand in the summer of 1915. And, as I mention in the podcast, I so loved one of the original illustrations by Dudley Tennant, that I adapted it for use in the header of my writing blog, The Daring Novelist.  (I also used that illustration as inspiration for an incident in my serial story -- The  Misplaced Hero -- although the young lady in that story is less in need of assistance.)

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 1 - "For Belgium. (29 minutes)

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See you in the funny papers

Welcome to the Reading in the Attic, a weekly podcast in which I read fiction to

you.   Most of the fiction will be my own, but I'll also be

reading old stories I find in old magazines on sites like Project

Gutenberg and the Internet Archive -- and also physical magazines I

manage to acquire.  I will also occasionally read a new story or novel

excerpt from current authors.

This very short episode simply explains what the podcast is about, and how I chose the title.

Download the episode directly from the Internet Archive: Reading In the Attic, Episode 0 - Introduction. (1:49)

Or you can listen right here:

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and such, is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReadingInTheAtticPodcast )

See you in the funny papers.