Be mighty, and keep your axes sharp!
A panhandler is given a magical postage stamp.
Content Advisory: Swearing. Scam artists. Mention of parental death. Homelessness. Misogyny.
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Credits:
Music: Ergo Phizmiz and Chad Crouch
Story and Narration: Christopher Gronlund
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If one desires, they can have a story end in so many different ways.
Some stories just have a feel from the start for a certain kind of ending, but others are shaped by a writer’s environment — sometimes even being affected by other stories written around the time a particular story is done.
That’s what I talk about with “A Race to the End.”
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The 100-year-old son of the oldest man to ever live plots to kill a 123-year-old man about to break his father’s record.
Content Advisory: Swearing and cartoonish violence. Stress of aging and mortality. A son trying to live up to his father’s expectations.
Credits:
Music: Ergo Phizmiz and Chad Crouch
Story and Narration: Christopher Gronlund
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The last episode was a bit of a departure, with seven bits of micro-fiction. The most fascinating thing was hearing which stories people loved most (“Vlad Stovepipe” won).
So…for this episode of Behind the Cut, a bit about each of the stories…
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A bit of a departure this holiday season: seven stories instead of one!
(Think of it as micro-fiction stocking stuffers.)
Content Advisory: “Be a Man”: Child abuse, mention of a dead dog (by gunshot), alcohol abuse, and murder. “Fucking Asshole”: Uhm…swearing! “The Intersection”: Anger, violence (shooting), and family loss of a child (shooting). “Vlad Stovepipe”: Cartoon violence. “Hardcore”: Swearing and violence. “Another Christmas Eve”: Divorce, violence (family fistfight), swearing, depression, loneliness.
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Credits:
Story and narration: Christopher Gronlund
Music: Ergo Phizmiz and Chad Crouch (aka Poddington Bear)
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Something a little different this time…
Because “The Hidebehind” was the first episode of Not About Lumberjacks with a male narrator other than me, I chat with Defender Radio’s Michael Howie about what it was like to work together on the story’s production.
It’s a glorious tale of friendship, creativity…and majestic beards!
(Also, you should totally follow Michael on Twitter and Instagram.)
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Something lurks in the woods outside a lumber camp in this story I SWEAR is NOT about lumberjacks…
Content Advisory: Swearing. Violence (involving fights and knives). Alcohol use. Mass poisoning. Horror (monster in the woods). Dementia brought on by environmental factors. Implied cannibalism.
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Credits:
Story: Christopher Gronlund
Narration: Michael Howie, of the Defender Radio Podcast. (Follow Michael on Twitter!)
Music: Ergo Phizmiz and Kai Engel
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There really is a Memorial Park where after-school fights took place when I was in junior high school.
And I was involved in one myself; in fact, some reality creeped into “Memorial Park.”
If you’re interested in what’s real and not in the story, look no further than this…
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An after-school fight pits the meanest kid in Walt Whitman Junior High School against one of its shyest geeks.
Content Advisory: Swearing. Bullying. Violence (bullying and an after-school fight). Humiliation.
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Credits:
Music: Ergo Phizmiz and Chad Crouch
Story and Narration: Christopher Gronlund
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I was never the punk that Bobby McGarvey or Stevie Saturn were in “Cubicle Punks,” but I do have something in common with them: I have always struggled with certain things that come with a “responsible” job.
The pull between a day job that pays the bills and pursuing one’s dreams is a recurring theme in several of my stories.
I talk about it on this episode of Behind the Cut…
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