TALL TALE TV - Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Stories

Physical Humor is a Dying Medium ep.684 Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over four hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages.  He is a member of Codex and a Full Member of SFWA. He has published six science fiction novels including one trilogy, four monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflec...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 13 (book 5) ep.683 Risk Management Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to book 3.5 ht...

Please Hold ep.682 Mervin Butterfield is about to assassinate his rival for top mob boss in Neo Angeles. Nothing is going to stop him taking out the competition - except for his rival doing the exact same thing to him. Even worse, his rival is using a smart bullet: a weapon that will keep on coming until it gets him. Mervin can't decide what's worse: the relentless killing machine hot on his heels...

Selling Adama ep.681 The Spider god Anansi always makes a profit. Born in Cuba, Matias Travieso-Diaz migrated to the United States as a young man to escape political persecution. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing. About ninety of his short stories have been published or accepted for publication in anthologies and pa...

Coffee Break ep.680 Who needs a man when you have science? Mason Yates is from a small town in the Midwest, but he currently lives in Arizona, where he graduated from Arizona State University.  He has interned with the magazine Hayden's Ferry Review and has served as the fiction editor for ASU's undergraduate literary magazine Lux during the 2021-2022 school year.  His works can be found in magazi...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 12 (book 5) ep.679 A Bark Worse Than The Bite Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to...

Coherence ep.678 Syntech AI personality replication has reached perfection! Well, Almost. Warren Benedetto writes dark fiction about horrible people, horrible places, and horrible things. He is an award-winning author and a full member of the SFWA. His hobbies include sleeping, hitting snooze, sleeping some more, and naps. For more information, visit  warrenbenedetto.com and follow @warrenbenedett...

Kilimanjaro ep.677 Atop the slopes of Kilimanjaro lies the last vestige of our once proud world. Based in London, UK, Roman is an up and coming writer who always strives for variety in his work, be it serious speculative dramas to, as others had put it, the 'totally gonzo'. Stories from both categories can be found in anthologies like Wandering Wave's 'Tumbled Tales' anthology to 'S for Slasher' f...

Salvagers ep.676 He made a promise. Cameron Craig is a writer based in the Boston area. He wrote screenplays for nearly a decade before deciding to make the switch over to novels. When he's not writing fiction, he can be found likely watching movies, playing video games or cheering on his hometown team the Tampa Bay Lightning.   More TTTV stories by Cameron Craig: https://talltaletv.com/tag/camero...

The Ballad of Robinson Clyde ep.675 Alexander D. Jones is an Author who is just starting out on his literary journey. He loves putting characters in situations that he would never end up in himself.  Currently, he is working, very slowly, on a novel. You might see his name on a shelf in your local bookshop in a couple of years.   More TTTV stories by Alexander D. Jones https://talltaletv.com/tag/a...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 11 (book 5) ep.674 Ship-Shape Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to book 3.5 https:/...

Time to Reflect ep.673 Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over four hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages.  He is a member of Codex and a Full Member of SFWA. He has published six science fiction novels including one trilogy, four monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off...

Boiler Room Beasties ep.672 Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over four hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages.  He is a member of Codex and a Full Member of SFWA. He has published six science fiction novels including one trilogy, four monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020),...

Hello 27 ep.671 T.J Matthews' stories have appeared in Aphelion Webzine and Alien Dimensions.     ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www. TallTaleTV.com   ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at  http://www. TallTaleTV.com   ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- Hi there! My name is Chris...

Apprentice to the Maestro ep.670 Hala Dika is a poet and writer. Her poetry collection, Re-evolution, is available on Kindle. She publishes stories regularly for SciFiShorts.co and Ye Olde Tyme News.   ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www. TallTaleTV.com   ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelin...

Wild Pistols ep.669 Carla is a scientist by day and a sci-fi writer by night. She is a Brazilian cosmologist (of the quantum kind), mathematician, and historian of science. With her secret identity as a sci-fi author, she likes to speculate on humanity using fantastical, science-based themes. "Wild Pistols" was first published in Portuguese in a Brazilian sci-fi anthology. The author is also the t...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 10 (book 5) ep.668 En-lightning Encounters Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to boo...

Scheherazade's Last Tale ep.667 Most of the beautiful stories do not have beautiful endings, because destiny is stronger than love. Born in Cuba, Matias Travieso-Diaz migrated to the United States as a young man to escape political persecution. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing. About ninety of his short stories hav...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 9 (book 5) ep.666 Pier Pressure Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to book 3.5 https...

Hostile Work Environment ep.665 Anyone who has been through a workplace harassment seminar may think of the experience as being like a living Hell. This story just takes that feeling to its inevitable extreme. John Willems is a practicing attorney in West Virginia with a wife, Rachel, and two sons, Francis and Tony. He has published short stories with Tall Tale TV and Synthetic Reality Magazine an...

Barefoot Rank ep.664 Olki's shop was stocked with magic items of incredible power or of everyday usefulness.  He was used to being visited by questers in need of help.  But this customer had a problem Olki had never encountered before.   Dan Crawford is older than he used to be.  He thinks his three novels, published in the 1990s, are about due to be rediscovered, although they were not all that d...

A True Knight ep.663 A knight in shining armor is a knight who has never had his armor tested. Cameron Craig is a writer based in the Boston area. He wrote screenplays for nearly a decade before deciding to make the switch over to novels. When he's not writing fiction, he can be found likely watching movies, playing video games or cheering or on his hometown team the Tampa Bay Lightning.   ---- Li...

Writer's Block ep.662 Everything should be finished. Andrew Newall lives in Scotland and he hopes you enjoyed listening to  Writer's Block.   He wrote this as a short film script in the 1990's, later adapting it into story format and it was published in 2016 by  Open Pen , a magazine based in London in the UK. After some rewrites, the film script won the "Best Short Script" category in the  Screen...

Stone and Starlight ep.661 Tourism technology moves on, increasing the wedge between man and nature. Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella s...

Of Risk and Relativity, Ch. 8 (book 5) ep.660 Inn-Appropriate Behavior Listen to the book five playlist here https://talltaletv.com/ series-of-risk-and-relativity / or listen to book one http://talltaletv.com/series-monsters-mushrooms/ listen to book two http://talltaletv.com/series-of-tyrants-and-teakettles/ Listen to book three http://talltaletv.com/series-of-bandits-and-bad-magic/ Listen to boo...