Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg Tales

The devil’s ex wife thinks Beyoncé was right about Harry and Meghan, Vince ponders points of doctrine— was that Jesus being reborn right here a year ago, or was it as abstract as Schrödinger’s cat? Nonsense tales of fear and faith grow towards a showdown between Vince and the Tesla people who are entitled and very, very hurt. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Mat...

Cobbler Martin is in London, confined under surveillance for her role in setting off the storm that killed many, including her host the oligarch. She is interrogated by an official whom doesn’t believe her, she befriends her guards, she falls into despair, and then she finds a reason to hope. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buc...

The angel who brought Mary and Joseph to Littleburg two years ago --for what might have been the second coming-- returns for another world-shaking bit of business. It turns out that when the devil's ex-wife fired the demons from the Counting House of Souls in the basement of the Hotel Liminal , they scattered out into the world and caused global havoc. How do you put the demons back in the box? Th...

Luella Diamond thinks $130,000 is chicken feed hush money, and because there are no ghosts left to soften the air in the Hotel, everyone in the bar has to get drunk. Minnie Gonzales the realtor shows the house that never sells to the brand conceptualizer who's now in big trouble. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofree...

The Littleburg witch Celeste Granting has to give up her practice and go back to her prosaic old name-- Laura Appleby-- because the invisible world has gone silent since the ghosts were fired from the hotel. Laura no longer believes in the woo-woo stuff: She will devote herself to the dreary mantra IT IS WHAT IT IS. But then she realizes that Pluto is about to go into Aquarius , for the very first...

After Luella Diamond has fired the soul counters and spirits from the hotel Liminal, they aggregate into a snowball that pulls all the other spirits out of Littleburg. The sudden clarity leaves the inhabitants with only reality , and that is going to be hard. Celeste loses her powers during a seance , and realizes she may have chosen the wrong life path. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by...

While half of Littleburg is re-enacting what might have been the Second Coming right there, Vince decides he may sell the hotel Liminal to the devil's ex wife, and invites her to try it for a month. She bullies the whisperers out of the counting house of souls in the hotel basement. They may take the other spirits with them-- stand by for season 3, Littleburg without ghosts. Vince flies with Harri...

Celeste Granting, on her bi- yearly check-in with the Board of spirit guides, draws up the sketch of a new set of ethics, which the voice of the board calls"ETHIQUETTE". Going beyond the rules of the Old Testament, she channels a wide harvest of new commandments. She will also discover just how repellent social life has become. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by M...

Vince is tempted to join the young star Cobbler in London without his wife Harriet, so he seeks advice from his friend the seer Celeste. Who’s desperately trying to find ways to save her clients from new waves of despair. She tries to list reasons for gratitude , and they both end up practicing stichomancy with a text from before the birth of Christ . Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Bet...

After months under surveillance, Cobbler is deemed clean and able to work with King Charles, who explains to Cobbler over tea at home how they will fight darkness. The singer is intimidated ; the King is worried about the coming winter. And he's having problems with his birds. How do you plot a mission when your mode is set to small talk? And how is the man with yellow hair like permafrost? Theme...

Don Gonzales is listening to a bootleg audio of Cobbler's magnificent song, without knowing it's hers. Vince and Harriet have had problems with Phantom internet services, and Blake, once gentle and humble, has now been humiliated into helpless outrage. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

As the world hurtles towards total chaos, VInce, the anxious owner of the Hotel Liminal, wrestles with the problem of good and evil , as embodied by his hotel and its potential new owners. His barman Don is thrilled that America can hit an asteroid in far outer space. Meanwhile, the devil's ex-wife is getting bored in the sticks, which can only lead to trouble. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic des...

The age-old battle between faith and reason plays out at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The woman who married the devil twice, and divorced him, moves into Littleburg , which creates a crisis in the mysterious room 13 of the hotel Liminal. Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

London: Cobbler Martin, having provoked a flood and a fire while singing for a shadowy oligarch in a London garden , awakens in a starchy bed, guarded by a nurse who might not be a nurse. The queen is dead. The U.K. government is keeping an eye on Cobbler, who is startled and awed by the arrival of the new King Charles. Who has some very good news for Cobbler, and hints that they are fighting the...

To kick off the second season of The Serial Tales of Littleburg, author Joan Juliet Buck provides a briefing on the events of Season One, with a comprehensive Who’s Who of the denizens of the Hudson Valley hamlet where so many city dwellers fled during the pandemic. But the the veil between worlds is thinner in Littleburg , and the price of admission may be steep. We learn about the three new witc...