The Ten-Minute Storyteller

Oct 31 2024 26 ep. 12 mins 26

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Want to hear some entertaining stories but don't have a lot of time? Here's your ticket to ride. The Ten-Minute Storyteller arrives packed with humor, pathos, humanity, and originality… in ten minutes or less. All stories written and narrated by Bill Simpson, an acclaimed novelist who has, after many years in the kitchen, perfected the short short story.

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To Hell and Back

Oct 31 2024 14 mins

This week we meet The Kid. The Kid just wants to shoot some hoops. Get in some practice before his school team tryouts next week. But inside the old dairy barn out back where his father has hung a hoop, the kid runs into a spooky stranger. The unexpected encounter will have consequences neither of them can imagine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inertia

Oct 10 2024 11 mins

This week we meet Tammy. Every day Tammy thinks about doing it. And every day she doesn’t do it.She wants to do it, or at least she thinks she does, but still she doesn’t do it.She wants to do this and do that, go here and go there, but desire so rarely leads to action.What is Life? What’s it for? What are we supposed to do with it? Is it anything more than the Random Thought

Shrunk

Oct 03 2024 14 mins

This week we meet Tad. After years of Talk Therapy Tad finally has a breakthrough. He finally spits out the Truth. Finally utters the unutterable. But is his Shrink listening? Or has his Shrink checked out of the Game, consumed as he is by his own angsts and anxieties, his own dreams and desires?SHRUNK asks those old Socratic questions: Do our fellow humans hear a word we say? Or d

Sidewinder

Sep 26 2024 14 mins

This week we meet Baby Kane and his parents, Adam and Erin. Baby Kane is just about to escape from the back yard and crawl up onto the railroad tracks at the same moment the Union Pacific rolls west across the New Mexico desert. Will Baby Kane get splattered by the lead locomotive? If he manages to stay off the tracks, what about the venomous rattlesnake that’s just had its rattl

The Heiress and the Fastballer

Sep 19 2024 14 mins

This week we meet the Fastballer. Throws over a hundred mph. Just signed a big fat MLB contract.She’s a billionaire’s daughter. A wild thing. Really likes to have a good time. The crazier the better.They meet at a South Beach soiree and that same night she recruits him for a trip to Greece to attend a fancy destination wedding. What could possibly go wrong?See omnystudio.com/li

Constance Sillence

Sep 12 2024 11 mins

This week we meet Constance. Constance Sillence. The fifth of nine children. She bore five children of her own, two surviving. The short, unhappy life of Constance Sillence unnerves and disheartens even the hardest souls, but alas, her story is as common as passed gas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Civil War

Sep 05 2024 13 mins

This week we meet Ace. Ace’s girlfriend decided it might be fun to vacation in Israel, enjoy some of the ancient sites mentioned in the Bible. So off they went. Unfortunately, some bad timing along with some very bad luck turned their vacation into a nightmare of Biblical proportions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ralph & Red

Aug 29 2024 12 mins

This week we meet Ralph. Ralph’s a good old country boy who epitomizes the old cliché: Never judge a book by its cover.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Man Who Can't Get Up

Aug 22 2024 12 mins

This week we meet Zeb. A monument to virility. Manly to the core. Fifty years chasing the ladies. But, alas, not so much anymore.He started young, made women his vocation. Unfortunately, it’s looking like he’ll need a fresh inspiration.Times they are a-changin, machinery all worn out. Poor boy’s emasculated, of that there is no doubt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in

The Last Super Model

Aug 15 2024 13 mins

This week we meet the last super model. As a kid, because of her looks, she was used and abused, deceived and exploited. They used her to hawk perfume and blue jeans, underwear and dreams. But she was tough, resilient, ambitious. She channeled that abuse and exploitation to build her own company, to make millions, to beat them at their own game. But at what price?See omnystudio.com