I was helping my friend Vern Acular sort leaves the other day. Vern thinks it's important that all fallen leaves are kept in separate piles according to the tree from which they came ...
Ana Gram couldn't understand what was so important about spelling. She knew that letters were important. She knew that letters were used to make drows, and drows were used to make nestences, and nestences were used to make hargapraps ...
My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind saying, I thought I knew my one-two-threes ...
My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the hokey-pokey? ...
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About Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs: Stories and short humor by Abner Serd
From the publisher's feed
Storyteller Abner Serd specializes in short humor with a twist. His stories often pull the listener out of the normal sphere of reality and into a surrealistic landscape populated with eccentric characters who nonchalantly redefine common sense. Think of these stories as comic strips for the ears: short, weekly doses of whimsy. What yarns will Abner spin today? As Jimmy Fingerbutton the inventor once put it, "the world is full of things nobody ever thought of before."
This is an all-ages podcast - there's a little something for everybody. In 2016, the podcast switched from a daily to a weekly release schedule, with a new story appearing each Wednesday.