Tales from the Hearth

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Scripted and sound design by Lisette Alvarez.

Featuring the voice talents of:

• Lisette Alvarez
• Ryan Ruiz
• Adriene Arce
• Christiaan Voldstaad
• Scott Welnosky
• Whitney Johnson
• Ian DePriest

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Fletcher aims for the future.

CONTENT WARNING: Allusions towards violent direct action. Loud sounds/music at around the 8:30 minute mark.

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Fletcher confronts the Fates.

Landslide, a three-part series, is written and produced by Lisette Alvarez. The next part is coming soon.

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The tale of a valley of master weavers, and the wall blessed by the fates to protect them -- until it didn't.

Landslide, a three-part series, is written and produced by Lisette Alvarez. The next part is coming soon.

You can support this latest experiment with the Storyteller Project.

Join our weekly Friday creative coworking sessions on Discord and Twitch.

Check out our other show, "The Ortiz Twins Are Coming Home" and support the full series run at ortiztwins.com.

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From the creators of Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services, Black Friday, and Tales From the Hearth comes a new modern audio folk tale--The Ortiz Twins Are Coming Home is a fantasy podcast about twins on the US/Mexico border as they reconnect with their indigenous roots and uncover forgotten family history. The Ortiz Twins is written by Andrew Siañez-De La O and produced by Stormfire Productions.

Join the launch party on February 24, live in Alexandria, Virginia and virtually! Get tickets and support the full series run at ortiztwins.com. Thank you for listening. Gracias por escuchar.

Please note: this audio contains material that might be disturbing for some audiences sensitive to loud noises and implied violence.

Listen now to "The Tone" for the upcoming modern folk tale LANDSLIDE, which will premiere later this week.

Sound and music sourced via a Creative Commons license at freesound.org.

See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth.

Tomorrow begins the actual script writing! Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream and creative co-working? Connect via our Discord server.

This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We are trying to hit $100, or 50% of our goal today, and we're only $49 short! You can contribute now.

There once lived a young warrior named Fletcher, who lived in a village protected by a grand, old, woven wall. When his village is destroyed by a freak landslide, Fletcher goes off on a quest to confront those who failed to protect them from such a disaster–the fates themselves.

Landslide, a modern audio folk tale, will premiere….mmm, early next week. Welcome to Day 2, Experiment #4 of the Storyteller Project. You can find the moodboard inspired by yesterday's collective tarot reading and created during today's creative co-working by checking out our Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr pages.

We are already 26% of the way to our mini-fund goal of $200! Can we make it to 50% today? Every dollar over our goal goes to the next person who wishes to run this experiment. The fundraiser ends next week, after I finish post the upcoming folk tale! You can learn more at stormfireproductions.com/storyteller, or check out our links in the show notes.

We'll be back tomorrow with sample audio and another creative co-working session at 12PM ET on our discord channel. Come join us!

See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth.

Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server.

This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have until next week to raise $200! We are already 26% of the way there. You can contribute now.

Welcome to the Storyteller's Workshop! For day one of the Storyteller Project, Lisette Alvarez conducted a collective tarot reading to inspire a new modern folk tale. By next week, there will be a mini episode in this feed. Between now and then, however, you will get a mix of podcast episodes which include unedited workshopping, sample audio, and a trailer. That's because each day, Lisette will work for a set amount of time based on a part-time workload in their area. So this unedited episode? Didn't want to waste an hour there that could be put towards editing the final product. So you'll hear all the phone notifications, bumping of tables, ums and ahs and stutters. That's the messy work of the story sausage, my friend!

The decks used:

Liminal Spirits Oracle by Laura Tempest Zakroff

The Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan (Author), John Matthews (Author), Will Worthington (Illustrator)

(Thanks again to Creative Energy in Melbourne, FL for the last-minute deck recommendations and acquisition!)

The final spread:

• The nature of the main character(s): The Stag

• The nature of the conflict: Fiber

• The nature of the motivation: The Archer

• The antagonist: Clay

• The allies/skills needed: Knight of Bows/Fox

• What must be sacrificed: Honeybee

• The messages: Queen of Vessels + Environment

• A message from collective's shadow: The Wheel

See and share the tarot spread across our social media. Find your hearth.

Want to join this week's daily 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server.

This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have 5 days to raise $200! We are already 26% of the way there. You can contribute now.

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The myth of how we became storytelling animals.

This special episode was made with the support of those who have already contributed to the 2023 Storytelling Crowdfund. All contributers receive a copy of "The Storyteller" paper, a prose research essay I wrote in 2016 on the global archetype of the Storyteller. All contributers for the Bardic Box and above get a special bound and signed copy.

We have until Halloween to meet our stretch goal! We are already 75% of the way there. Check out our gift levels and contribute before the deadline! https://stormfireproductions.com/2023-storytelling-crowdfund/

Thank you for listening!

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