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This is Wilson Arz. When my kids were small, I used to play a bedtime game with them. They would tell me a letter, and I would make up a nonsense song with every word starting with that letter. One that I still remember is -- “Bungling Bearded Burglars from Broadstone Beach” Just a whimsical song with lots of alliteration. We used to sing it as a round with me starting and then they would come in....

Stingaree Gulch A Ring-Tailed Roaring Good Time By J. J. Mounts-Miller Fleeing a rigged boxing match and a deadly mob ultimatum, legendary promoter Tex Rickard arrives in the Nevada boomtown of Rawhide to build his ultimate masterpiece: Stingaree Gulch, a sprawling empire of vice. As the silver rolls in, Tex sets his sights on an impossible dream—staging a controversial heavyweight championship fo...

My Dad delivered batteries all over hilly Seattle. Drove a truck. Lead-acid batteries. Batteries for cars. Trucks. Fishing Boats. Picked up old ones. Delivered new ones. The acid ate his clothes. Scarred his hands.  He had done the Army during Viet Nam. We lived in Ballard, near the locks. Upstairs in a once-Victorian house. My Mom worked at the doughnut shop. Coming in at four. Frying dozens and...

Friends and Devoted Listeners – Appaloosa Radio Online is ending its podcast series effective January 15, 2026, shifting our focus to our VIMEO and YouTube video channels. However, we will continue to maintain an archive of our previous audio stories for those who wish to re-visit them. As many of you know, we began as four friends who wanted to create audio theater together. With our partnership...

Appaloosa Radio Offers A new musical story A Little Monkey Magic Act One   A whimsical musical journey to the early days of cartoon animation, featuring Jiminy, the ever-inquisitive, always impulsive, and incredibly funny organ grinder’s monkey, and his three animator friends at the Carousel Cartoon Company of Chicago.  It was 1934 during the very worst days of the Great Depression, and, unfortuna...

2025 Spring Songfest This is a collection of songs from several stories that we have recently shared on Appaloosa Radio. Enjoy the 2025 Spring Songfest.  Selections include: ·       Shadows and Silhouettes ·       Whimsey Lullaby ·       Weight of Goodbye ·       Middle-Aged Hippie ·       Coyote ·       25 is Too Slow ·       Jar of Sand ·       My Love is a Sonnet ·       Strong Enough ·       B...

25 is too slow By Eureka Wallace   Sign says 25, that's a snail in disguise.  I'm a rocket on wheels,  not a cloud in my skies.  Got dreams in the trunk. Ambitions on my dash.  Speedometer screaming, gotta move fast . 25 too slow. Can't cage my flow.  Road's a canvas, that I paint. Gotta let it show. Gotta let it show.  Gotta let it show.     Wheels spinning symphonies,  heartb...

Regarding a Murder By Stan Morgan Private Investigator A True Story   A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him directly when he was a child. “It was November 18, 1947. I had just turned eight and was in the Third Grade at Wayside Elementary School in the southern edge of Bakersfield.  Every day, my younger brother and I walked the three-quarters of a mile from our house...

Regarding a Murder Part 2 of 4 By Stan Morgan Private Investigator A True Story   A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him directly when he was a child. “It was November 18, 1947. I had just turned eight and was in the Third Grade at Wayside Elementary School in the southern edge of Bakersfield.  Every day, my younger brother and I walked the three-quarters of a mile fr...

Regarding a Murder Part 3 of 4 By Stan Morgan Private Investigator A True Story   A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him directly when he was a child. “It was November 18, 1947. I had just turned eight and was in the Third Grade at Wayside Elementary School in the southern edge of Bakersfield.  Every day, my younger brother and I walked the three-quarters of a mile fr...

Regarding a Murder Part 4 of 4 By Stan Morgan Private Investigator A True Story   A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him directly when he was a child. “It was November 18, 1947. I had just turned eight and was in the Third Grade at Wayside Elementary School in the southern edge of Bakersfield.  Every day, my younger brother and I walked the three-quarters of a mile fr...

Science Fiction The Wine of Frogs by Anthony Marcolongo  Indefinite longevity. Lengthening human life spans to millennia instead of decades. The firm had been working  for years and had finally achieved a major breakthrough. However, its founder had other, more sinister plans.   This story was originally published in the anthology, The Moving Finger Writes...

Tattoo  An original story for Appaloosa Radio   Last December before Christmas he placed third in the Regional Finals for the Mr. Perfect Body competition. The year before, he had placed second, just seven tenths of a point behind the winner. Then, to celebrate he had an artist tattoo a full-color version of Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” across his pects and abs. It cost him nearly a thousand d...

Edge Clinging For Appaloosa Radio As we age, we lose both our mobility and our self-confidence, and in losing our self-confidence, we stick very close to the edge of the pool. 

Appaloosa Radio Online offers Alligator   A story from Nell Trustmon’s Magazine “Broken Tree Tales”   In rural mining communities like Boyce, Colorado, the arrival of the “Alligator Man” created a community-wide celebration. How could any of the Lithuanian miners continue to work in the deep, hard rock silver mine when there was a real, live alligator in town? Gotta see that! Alligators were hardl...

Appaloosa Radio presents an original musical story   Surprise Valley   The hippie resort of perpetual happiness   Here is another great song from Act 2 of the musical.   You can download the full show on Appaloosa Radio Online.

Peace and perpetual greetings! Featuring new tie-dye songs in the hip style of the early 1970s. Appaloosa Radio presents an original musical story   Surprise Valley  The hippie resort of perpetual happiness Here is a favorite song from ACT 2!  

The Road of Life Has Many Detours A very personal story by Gisela Butler The pick-up truck came over the center divider and became airborne. I could see the wheels of the truck coming in my direction.  I just said, “Oh my God, please…”  Instantly, I ducked towards the passenger side. Then I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my ribs. I lay there in pain going in and out of consciousness. That’s all I r...

Do you love Interactive Collaborative Fiction? Interactive Collaborative Fiction is the art of jointly shaping a narrative through collective storytelling. Appaloosa Radio Online, in collaboration with the Sacramento Suburban Writers, is launching an exciting new forum for Interactive Collaborative Fiction (ICF) and is seeking “ Story Pilots ” to guide the journey. ICF is a process where narrative...

The Devil is in the Details --- The Art of Deception An original story by Thomas Hessler   It really wasn’t a wild prank. Nobody got hurt, some were entertained for a while, and the incident displayed a principle of human characteristics. I would do it again, and I think if you asked those who know me, they would say, “Uh, huh.”  Every so often I pick up a book about writing. I mean, some of the a...

Most Despicable Brute An Original Story by Appaloosa Radio From the continuing   City of 4000 Spies Series “If Noble Son Dusko Rarrko, the Second Son of the 19th Great Nobleman of Sassko were ever to write his memoirs, telling about his entanglement in the world of espionage, he could tell of great schemes involving the greatest of empires and nations. He could also tell of well-planned assassinat...

On the Morning Commuter Bus An original story For Appaloosa Radio CHAPTER 1   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Larry Jay Connors is just one of the many. He is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose specialty is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analyses, and generating cost-to-price determinations. Unf...

On the Morning Commuter Bus An original story For Appaloosa Radio  CHAPTER 2 Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Larry Jay Connors is just one of the many. He is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose specialty is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analyses, and generating cost-to-price determinations. Unfo...

On the Morning Commuter Bus An original story For Appaloosa Radio  CHAPTER 3 Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Larry Jay Connors is just one of the many. He is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose specialty is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analyses, and generating cost-to-price determinations. Unfo...

Travelling by Pamela Hummel-Morgan   This week we visited some friends in Monterey. They had recently returned from a seven-week trip driving across Europe, putting over 6,000 miles on their rental cars.