Appaloosa Radio

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A  --- Chapter 6:   Re-activation   A multi-episode original story   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analysis, and...

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A A multi-episode original story - Chapter 1: Unparalleled View   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analysis, and gen...

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A  --- Chapter 2: Not My Shoes A multi-episode original story   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analysis, and gener...

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A  --- Chapter 3: Where Possibilities Begin A multi-episode original story   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analys...

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A  --- Chapter 4: Jokes and More Jokes   A multi-episode original story   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analysis,...

Appaloosa Radio Offers On the Express Bus 73 A  --- Chapter 5:   Secrets   A multi-episode original story   Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and from their work sites. Mr. Larry J. Connors is just one of the many.  Larry is a numbers guy, a veritable filing cabinet for numbers, whose speciality is making fiscal projections, doing benefit analysis, and genera...

Appaloosa Radio offers Dead Man’s Suit An Original Short Story   Every time he wore it, he thought it had a strange odor. It had been dry cleaned multiple times and no one else noticed any sort of odor. In fact, his wife, Wilma thought he looked “spiffy” in it and loved to see him in the double-breasted, brown suit with the faintest of gray pinstripes. “He looks like a movie star,” she proudly tol...

Gambler’s Boots The Robbery of the Overland Express Train As re-told by Officer JAMES H. KINKEAD The officer who arrested the perpetrators  In this episode, we share an original historical document. It has not been fictionalized.  Former Washoe County Undersheriff, Officer James H. Kinkead died June 9,1912. Among his papers and effects, Jim Kinkead’s family found a pencil-written manuscript tellin...

Appaloosa Radio offers Call Her Amanda A Nell Trustmon Short Story Taken from her magazine Broken Tree Tales Nell retells the story of red-haired “Amanda” who may have been the first woman in the mining boomtown of Bonanza, Idaho. In the story, a poker player wagers his wife (“Amanda”) against his previous losses, but the gambler loses. “Amanda” is won by a miner, but another steals her away. She...

Appaloosa Radio offers Alligator   A Nell Trustmon Story   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 hardly rare in places like Florida or the bayous...

Furious  D.R. Nichols has integrated rap and narrative fiction to tell of a “demon” driver and his red sportscar.   “You hate me You know you do You’d blast me with rockets Machine gun me to utter annihilation Demand the fates pelt down fierce brimstone If you could If you could Really, If I would  Let you catch me Let you catch me But you can’t No, you can’t No one Nobody Can ever catch me. I’m u...

Roomies  Original College Humor Going away to college and residing in a dorm is an opportunity to learn to live with differences. Roommates can learn how to accommodate the needs of others. However, what happens when the roomie you are assigned to live with proves so different that it almost seems as if he came from another planet. You ask for help in dealing with Seth, but the university can’t pr...

Special Monkey Magic Featuring Jiminy, the Organ Grinder’s Monkey and the Carousel Cartoon Company of Chicago   In October 1934, during the very worst of the Great Depression, Jiminy, the ever-inquisitive, always impulsive, and incredibly funny Organ Grinder’s monkey died.  He died because the company that his three creators had founded to give Jiminy fun things to get into had failed. The Carouse...

City of 4,000 Spies: Trip Home   After a short hiatus, Appaloosa Radio has begun production on Season Two of its Podcast. We begin Season Two by offering a new story from the City of 4000 Spies series. This time Noble Son Dusko Rarrko is in the very distant Ganna 40 Sector on a very hush-hush assignment of an unspecified nature He is working for a sponsoring entity that carries out actions of an i...

City of 4,000 Spies: Trip Home   After a short hiatus, Appaloosa Radio has begun production on Season Two of its Podcast. We begin Season Two by offering a new story from the City of 4000 Spies series. This time Noble Son Dusko Rarrko is in the very distant Ganna 40 Sector on a very hush-hush assignment of an unspecified nature He is working for a sponsoring entity that carries out actions of an i...

25th Episode! The Appaloosa Radio Podcast has just posted its 25th episode, bringing Season 1 production to a close. We have shared some new stories and some old favorites, including Nell Trustmon’s Broken Tree Tales, Jonas Chartogaro’s Lies & Detection, and a newly re-written City of 4000 Spies.  Take your choice: western ghost towns, nefarious atomic spy rings, or Dusko Rarrko, the second so...

He Done Her Wrong --- Alma shoots Joe A Nell Trustmon Story from her magazine, Broken Tree Tales  In June 1909, the daughter of one of California’s first ‘gold bugs’ shot her fiancée, the son of a wealthy Portuguese fruit grower.  Alma Pike shot Joe Armez.  “Flying over the pretty little mining town of Auburn, California I immediately saw the Courthouse. It is situated on a hilltop that can be see...

Original Genius of Pure Brilliance New York, 2017  International Association for Mathematics conference “Ladies and gentlemen. The International Association for Mathematics announces its Lifetime Achievement Award to a gifted mathematician whose work has revolutionized nearly every branch of contemporary mathematics. When I say “W. H. N. Goldman” you know I speak of virtuosity, of original thought...

Appaloosa Radio Productions Offers An original audio drama   Thief! My cousin, Danny, is a thief.    I know that is not a nice thing to say about a relative, especially a close relative like my Aunt Vivien’s only son. I am Italian and we just don’t say bad things about family. Unfortunately, the truth is, my cousin Danny Mariano was a thief.  I don’t mean, an occasional thief, one who steals ever...

City of 4,000 Spies:  Episode 3 I am Jooonni   Rona: “Cadet Squad Leader Rona EN Beelzie reporting as requested, Sir.” Commander: “You may stand at ease Cadet Squad Leader.  “I have been reviewing the performance of this epoch’s graduating class. I am pleased to share that Squad CVZ-678 had the overall highest marks, and most importantly, the highest rate of graduation success of any cadet squad. ...

City of 4000 Spies Episode Two The Beast Dusko Rarrko, the second son of the Nineteenth Great Nobleman of Sassko, was probably Lell’s most recognizable spy. He was handsome, athletic, and ingenious. He wore flashy high-end fashion and drove a speeder that broke 1.75. He was seldom seen without a bevy of beautiful females and was often described with that old-fashioned word “playboy” (although no o...

Appaloosa Radio offers Hank’s Murder Based on an actual murder case, fictionalized for this audio drama “I am Allen Nehering, a retired Detective from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. I was the Lead Detective for the investigation of Henry Triffitti’s murder. On August 12, 1974, we received a 9-1-1 call.” “My son-in-law, Hank, has been murdered. His head has been cut clean off. There is blo...

City of 4000 Spies  Episode One-  The Mineral of Information It was not his first time visiting the City-by-the-Lake. Indeed, he had been coming to Lell ever since be began his career as a professional spy, some many assignments ago. But, this time, it served his purpose, to appear to be a first-time visitor, a wide-eyed provincial from the distant, rural sectors. He even chose a cover name that a...

The Denver paramedics were there in just a few minutes. They begin to provide the homeless woman with medical car, and then the loaded her onto a gurney and rolled her into the ambulance. They grabbed Beckie’s coat and threw it over the homeless woman. I expected Beckie to speak up, to say, please leave my coat. She didn’t.  Later, when I asked her why she had not spoken up, asking the paramedics...

Beckie had come to Arvada to be close enough to her sons so they could visit her on weekends. Unfortunately, the visitations did not go well. Beckie’s tiny studio apartment was crowded and in a not-too-nice area. Everyone was crammed into a small space; two of the boys slept on the floor. The youngest shared his mother’s bed.  She did not have cable TV, video games, a basketball court, four-wheel...