The Apple Seed

This episode contains stories inspired by the dead. Dead men tell no tales? We don’t think so! We’ve included stories from Motoko, Joel Ben Izzy, Andy Offutt Irwin, and our very own Sam Payne.

In today’s episode, we’re reminiscing the 2018 Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. We had such a great time, that we just had to share stories from the Timp 2018 tellers and conversations that we had with festival goers.

Stories and snippets that we’ve adored from the week of October 15, 2018 to October 20, 2018. The stories are from our episodes “Daniel’s Favorites,” “Unconventional Solutions to Problems,” and “The Mummy’s Curse.” The tellers featured are Antonio Sacre, Motoko, Anthony Burcher, Kevin Cordi, Syd Lieberman, David Holt, and Daniel Bishop.

Today’s episode is a collection of spooky stories related to curses, treasures, and the undead. From the deck of the Titanic to a tiny ghost town down South, nowhere is safe from the reach of those who have passed on. In these stories, told by David Holt, Daniel Bishop, Dan Marcotte, Judith Heineman, Beth Horner, and Octavia Sexton, the dead have come back with a vengeance.

Life’s problems can drive us crazy, but the character’s in today’s stories have the solutions! These stories will leave you thinking: Why didn’t I think of that?! Today’s stories are brought to you by Steve Otto, Anthony Burcher, Kevin Cordi, Pam Faro, and Syd Lieberman.

Assistant producer Daniel Mesta shares some of his favorite stories with us. They somehow all involve rivers and lakes and the supernatural creatures that inhabit them. The stories come from all over the world and feature storytellers Motoko, Antonio Sacre, Brian “Fox” Ellis, and Jess Smith.

It’s been a magical, lovely, epic week, and here’s the Round-up to prove it. Stories from “Cathryn Fairlee’s Epic Day,” “What is Love?” and “Magic Tricks” episodes are included. We’ll highlight stories from Odds Bodkin, Judith Black, Lynda Gorham, and Dolores Hydock. Be ready to feel stupefied and enamored all at once.

Today's episode includes stories about a trip to Universal Studio's Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an Irish magician, a princess, a husband and wife with a duplication pot, and a medieval magician- what do they all have in common? Well, magic. Today's featured tellers are Robin Schulte, Brendan Nolan, Bob Reiser, Linda Gorham, and Judith Black.

Today’s episode of The Apple Seed is all about the tradition of the Epic: works that are often incredibly long, often ancient, often derived from stories passed down as part of an oral tradition, and often written as poems. We’ll feature a piece from Odds Bodkin, who sometimes performs The Odyssey in its entirety (it would take many, may Apple Seed episodes to feature the whole thing. Today, we’ll bring you that little bit of the story that has to do with Odysseus and his crew escaping form the cave of the Polyphemus, the Cyclops). We’ll also bring you a conversation with California Storyteller Cathryn Fairlee, who twice a year hosts an event in her home that she calls “Epic Day,” a day in which she and her colleagues choose an epic work from somewhere in the world and present it together, mostly for each other as an audience, over the course of an entire day

Betrayal, it's not an easy situation to deal with. So how do people cope? Well, the characters in these stories all seem to find a way to keep going. The featured tellers are Jordan Hill, Tim Lowry, and Dan Kedding.