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Escape! A work of fiction based on a true story Part 1   Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were three G.I.s from Western Pennsylvania serving in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division who were captured on December 19, 1945.  This work of fiction tells about their escape from the notorious Stalag IV-B P.O.W. prison and their...

Three times a week, Owen Namura drove his mother from her mobile home to the pond in the park. He would unload her walker and then assist her to walk the 200 yards to the stone wall surrounding the pond, and then help her to sit on it. Once she was situated, each would smoke a cigarette. He used to smoke a cigar, but she did not like its smell. So, he chose mentholated cigarettes instead. They wou...

Moral Obligations a 191-second audio story from Appaloosa Radio

Club Crazy   by Bryson Kilmer  Presented in collaboration with the Sacramento Suburban Writers. Humor. Bryson Kilmer tells about the zany meeting of one crazy club.

The Lies of a Salesmen By Markus Place A One-hundred-and-91-Second Story  On Appaloosa Radio   A retired super-salesman ponders the role of lying and falsehood in business relationships.

Dying Friends, Syvilla and Bode A 191 second story From Appaloosa Radio My best friend from college, Scott, now lives in Southern Oregon in the Illinois River Valley in a house that he built himself. For the last dozen years, every morning he did a run along the river with his ever-present friend, his dog Bode. This morning, Scott texted me that Bode had died. His fast-growing cancer had overwhelm...

My Father Beat Me A 91-second Story Created for Appaloosa Radio   From a --- Private Journal Entry June 17, 1973   My father beat me. Not just the occasional swat. No. He used his leather razor strap to hit me multiple times on my legs, on my hips, and on my back. He would do it three or four times a week. I remember that when I was thirteen, he beat me eight times during the same week. That’s rig...

 Eve and Petro Rocky Mountain Swallows By Edith M. Patch   By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She was the premier “bug lady” of her time, a serious scientist who contributed hundreds of papers to her field and who eventually became the first-ever-woman President of the Entomological Society of America. She was, also, a scientist who wanted to exc...

Don’t Touch Anything!  By  Jody Carnes-Hart For Appaloosa Radio   I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large, California State agency. I am now spending much of my time, sharing stories about how technology has impacted us. This is a story from my husband, from a summer job that he had in 1968. That summer, he worked in the collating room at a company that...

Don’t Touch Anything!  By  Jody Carnes-Hart For Appaloosa Radio   I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large, California State agency. I am now spending much of my time, sharing stories about how technology has impacted us. This is a story from my husband, from a summer job that he had in 1968. That summer, he worked in the collating room at a company that...

Biscuits and Gravy An original audio story Written for Appaloosa Radio It was Wednesday morning and that always meant a massive plate of biscuits and gravy at Dee’s Skillet, a breakfast joint on Highway 101. And it always meant that Jim would join him. They had worked together on a construction job some twenty or so years ago. Both were electricians. Both had come to Silicon Valley to make the rea...

Where did the rabbits go?  A 91-Second Story Written for Appaloosa Radio In the late 1940s, a four-year-old lives near his grandparents in an old lumber camp on Lake Ballenger, Washington. Each day, he puts on his red rubber boots and follows his grandfather down a scary path to feed the rabbits that the grandfather raises. Once a month, a truck comes and takes some of the rabbits away, but the bo...

Hummingbirds A 91-second audio story Written for Appaloosa Radio   Have you ever thought about a (non-human) species adapting to a new technology? 

Appaloosa Radio offers An original audio story By D. R. Nichols   Furious "You hate him, you really do."

Bear or Steer – Steer or Bear A 91-secon story Written for Appaloosa Radio Hiking can be dangerous!

THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE By Edith M. Patch   By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She was the premier “bug lady” of her time, a serious scientist who contributed hundreds of papers to her field and who eventually became the first-ever-woman President of the Entomological Society of America. She was, also, a scientist who wanted to excite children’s...

Dog, a Man, and a Cessna A 91-second Story from Appaloosa Radio

Waring Windows by Paul Lawrence A 91-second Story

My Best Friend Wrote a Book by Allen S. Graham A 91-Second Story from Appaloosa Radio

Golf A 91-seond Story Written for Appaloosa Radio by Paul Lawrence

New Kid A 91-second story Written For Appaloosa Radio

NOT MY KIDS By Gloria de la Rossa a 90-second story

The Worst Day By McNeil Aimmes An extremely short story

Rewind By Dianne Pollarino A 90-second Story

Appaloosa Radio is now webcasting extremely short fiction stories, i.e., stories running about 90 seconds long.