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Where to Begin

Trail in forest - "Start Here."

(For a list of all episodes, visit The Quick List.)

The most recent episode:

Enemy Wanted – Ferdinand Pérez gets more than he bargained for when he answers a flyer ad taped to a telephone pole looking for an enemy.

The one that started it all:

Gutterball – An English bulldog named Gutterball (and the family who loves him) must contend with the dog’s bad habit of eating everything in sight.

The most popular episodes:

  • Fly Me to the Moon – An unhoused man who talks with birds is convinced he can talk with his dead wife on the moon…if only he can fix a broken radio he found in a dumpster. (No idea why this is the most-listened to story. Not that it’s bad or anything…just not what you’d think would be the story among the rest.)
  • Horus – Sarah Nelson gets more than she bargained for when she answers a job for a writer’s assistant and must deal with the writer’s parrot, Horus.
  • Pride of the Red Card – A mechanic is happy to hear his son wants to sign up for football; that is, until he realizes what his son really means is soccer…
  • Standstill – When she was younger, Maddy’s grandfather gave her a pocket watch that does much more than simply telling time.
  • The Other Side – After a divorce and layoff, Daniel breaks into his childhood home to see if something in his closet all those years ago is still there…

Christopher’s favorites:

  • Purvis – In 1984, a Dungeon Master struggles with keeping the few friendships he has together, all while dealing with a vicious bully. (Warning: This one gets rather brutal. Also, this may be the best ending I’ve ever written.)
  • The Legend of Mighty Missy Stewart – Join Mighty Missy Stewart and her badger buddy, Tamarack, as they come of age in a time of expanding frontiers and rugged lumberjacks!
  • In Cypress Slough – Two deadhead loggers find something remarkable in the Piney Woods of East Texas, putting them at odds with a large timber company.
  • Revisions – An author tries to finish construction on her recently-deceased mother’s home while writing her second novel — the follow up to a New York Times Best Seller.
  • Overwinter –  In this celebration of solitude, Daniel’s life is changed forever after spending five months alone on an island 13 miles off the coast of Maine.

Uplifting Stories:

  • It’s Never Too Late – When Stanley Gladstone takes his time machine for a test run, he gets more than he bargained for when it breaks down, leaving him stranded in 1983.
  • The Art of the Lumberjack – When Erik Nilsson has a minor heart attack and finally reads a book left to him by his father, he finds something inside that changes him forever.
  • The Song of the Stone – Zander Pierson’s dissatisfaction with living the life others expected from him leads to a stone in a Swedish forest that also called to Einvaldr Brúnn at a turning point in his life in the early 860s.
  • A Deathly Mistake – When Death mistakenly harvests the soul of the wrong John Smith, John’s life — and After Life — are changed forever.
  • In the Margins – When Kenna Baynes discovers a strange book in her college library, she finds something in the margins that changes her life forever…

The One Making It Into An Audio Festival:

The Hidebehind – Something lurks in the woods outside a lumber camp in this story I SWEAR is NOT about lumberjacks…

The Funny, Mostly True One:

Bobo – A kid’s party clown comes to grips with what he’s become.

The Funny, Starting Out Mostly True One (That Totally Goes Off the Rails):

Milkboy – When two friends use a bulletin board system to create an online persona to tease their best friend, they get more than they have coming to them for their deception.

The Other Dungeons and Dragons-Heavy Story:

Gerald’s Grail – While knocking around an antique shop with his grandmother, a teenage geek finds something that changes his life in a most curious way…

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