SHORT STORY READINGS
Winning short stories performed by voice over actors.
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WAR Short Story: A LETTER TO THE END, by Stephanie Dillon (interview)
Performed by Val Cole
1. What is your short story about?
It's about a woman watching her own life from the inside, noticing what disappears before it's officially gone.
2. What genres would you say this story is in?
Literary fiction, psychological realism, quiet reckoning.
3. How...
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SCI-FI Short Story: The Pumpkin of Fox Hill Rd, by Luciano Vallone (interview)
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
The story is about the truth of the mysteriousness of my mother's family, the monotone, I shall put it. Within their faces, you never knew what they were thinking or hiding. My aunt lives on Fox Hill Rd, ...
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1pg. SCI-FI Short Story: In Andromeda, by Jonathan Cardew
Performed by Val Cole
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Short Story: FORGET ME NOT, by Mary Smihula
Performed by Val Cole
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COMEDY Short Story: 10, by John Dennis
Performed by Val Cole
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HORROR Short Story Reading: Bones, by Joel Beckwith
Performed by Val Cole
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SHORT Story Reading: Old Friend, by Damon Yeargain
Performed by Val Cole
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SHORT Story Reading: Chasing Butterflies, by Damon Yeargain
Performed by Val Cole
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SHORT Story Reading: The Universal Language of Play, by Damon Yeargain
Performed by Val Cole
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LGBTQ+ Festival Short Story Reading: Achillia and Amazon, by Andrew Sarewitz
Performed by Val Cole
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MYSTERY Short Story: Rules are Rules, by Daniel Hall
Performed by Val Cole
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HORROR Short Story: A House Full of Ghosts, by Almasi Al Akabani
Performed by Val Cole
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ENVIRONMENTAL Short Story: Monarch for a Day, by Vanessa Watters
Performed by Val Cole
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CRIME Short Story: You Did It, by James McInroy
Performed by Val Cole
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Short Story: Time-Shift, by RW Bell
Haunted by his wife’s disappearance during a corporate yachting accident, Teller, a dubious husband, fakes his own cryopreservation to uncover the truth. When he discovers Chrono-stasis' cryo-suspension CEO is secretly running the company from a remote island—alongside Teller’s double-crossing wi...
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SHORT Story: Two Crazy Creatures, by Lance Mazmanian
https://youtu.be/dhaZ680a4zc
Performed by Val Cole
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MEMOIR Short Story Reading: The Last Day of her Life, by Max Masure
Performed by Val Cole
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DYSTOPIAN: We Are Not So Different From Machines, by Melissa Mendelson (int.)
Performed by Val Cole
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Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
What if we could be programmed, our circuitry overwritten, erasing any trace of humanity, or attempts to, and if we stray into uncertainty, a threat to the system, we will be targeted and upgraded to fit nic...
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HORROR Festival Short Story: The Occultist, by Damon Sweeney
Voice Over: Val Cole
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ROMANCE Festival SHORT Story: Leslie and Georgette, by Renee Frackiewicz
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HORROR Short Story: The Man Or The Bear, by Samantha Strohbusch
Samantha Strohbusch
The Man Or The Bear
Short Horror (2900 words)The antagonist in this story is lost in dream-like states, sifting through generational trauma. She bites her way out.
Performed by Val Cole
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RELIGION Short Story: Ra – Master of Mandjet Piercer of the Veil, by Jim Ogburn
360 words
Performed by Val Cole
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SHORT STORY Reading: Beyond Tradition, by Kimble Luu
Type of Story: Creative Nonfiction / Literary Essay, 771words
Synopsis: A stepmother rejects the "wicked" myth and redefines motherhood, proving that love in blended families is boundless and unconfined by blood.
Performed by Val Cole
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SHORT STORY Reading: Bruised Purple, by Kimble Luu
Type of Story: Literary Fiction, 871 words
Synopsis: A little boy's words aren't enough to prove the abuse he endures, so he clings to the safe smell of a purple crayon - until silence becomes its own kind of evidence.
Performed by Val Cole
