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Journey together through innumerable worlds of fiction with Prose, a biweekly podcast series that offers up short stories of all genres and subject matter. If you like fiction of all sorts with the occasional bit of poetry or verse thrown in for good measure, join us on our adventures through the labyrinths of the human psyche and the infinite spaces of the imagination.
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Apr 1, 2018

In this Prose April Fools Day special, explore the history of April Fools and enjoy a truly epic reading of the Nun's Priest's Tale from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales!

 

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Mar 25, 2018

Rejoin Telo as she tries to find herself in a strange, new, potentially hostile colony in Parts XV and XVI of the novel Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo  titled The Hatchery” and “The Decision." 

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Mar 25, 2018

Hello and welcome to episode fifty-two of Prose.

This week, relive listening to a bedtime story and rejoin Telo as she tries to find herself in a strange, new, potentially hostile colony.  

Mar 11, 2018

Figure out the way of the new world with Telo as she meets some new potential friends in  Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo by Jack Lee, Parts XIII and XIV: “The Others” and “The Madness.”

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Mar 11, 2018

Hello and welcome to episode fifty-one of Prose.

This week, plan a holiday direct to your brain and figure out the way of the new world with Telo as she meets some new potential friends.

I have no special messages this week save my usual pleading with you all:  I hope that you’ll all go follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, as this can help the podcast get noticed; but, I truly beg you even more to head over  to iTunes and leave a rating and/or review for Prose.  Ratings and reviews set this show up for continuing into the future.  For easiest access to the show, subscribe using iTunes, Google Play, or whatever podcast catcher is your favorite.  Just as a side note, access via Spotify is in the works, for those asking!

Thanks for listening. 

This week we have “Holidaymaker” and Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo  Parts XIII and XIV titled “The Others” and “The Madness.”

Mar 8, 2018

Today, Prose is bringing you a very special midweek episode in honor of its founder's younger brother and bff's birthday!  This celebration takes the form of a reading of an elegant poem:  "The Gardener Lxviii: None Lives For Ever, Brother" by Rabindranath Tagore.  The text is below for those unfamiliar who might like to follow along.

 

None lives for ever, brother, and
nothing lasts for long. Keep that in
mind and rejoice.
Our life is not the one old burden,
our path is not the one long
journey.
One sole poet has not to sing one
aged song.
The flower fades and dies; but he
who wears the flower has not to
mourn for it for ever.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
There must come a full pause to
weave perfection into music.
Life droops toward its sunset to be
drowned in the golden shadows.
Love must be called from its play
to drink sorrow and be borne to the
heaven of tears.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
We hasten to gather our flowers lest
they are plundered by the passing
winds.
It quickens our blood and brightens
our eyes to snatch kisses that would
vanish if we delayed.
Our life is eager, our desires are keen,
for time tolls the bell of parting.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
There is not time for us to clasp a
thing and crush it and fling it away to
the dust.
The hours trip rapidly away, hiding
their dreams in their skirts.
Our life is short; it yields but a
few days for love.
Were it for work and drudgery it
would be endlessly long.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
Beauty is sweet to us, because she
dances to the same fleeting tune with
our lives.
Knowledge is precious to us, because
we shall never have time to
complete it.
All is done and finished in the eternal
Heaven.
But earth's flowers of illusion are
kept eternally fresh by death.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.

 

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Feb 25, 2018

Accept my humble thanks via a poem, more specifically my reading of  "When Giving is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos. 

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Thank you for listening to my reading of “When Giving is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos.


To quote Poets.org, “Born in 1952, Alberto Ríos is the inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona and the author of many poetry collections, including  A Small Story about the Sky (Copper Canyon Press, 2015). In 1981, he received the Walt Whitman Award for his collection Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press, 1982). He currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.”

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Feb 25, 2018

Traverse the pitfalls of life with two would-be, can’t-be, won’t be lovers in "To Protect the Innocent."

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Elizabeth Peterson is an educator, mathematician, and playwright who can be found between New England, Scotland, and Canada. She likes logic and words, and her favorite words are syzygy, eleemosynary, and logodaedaly. You can read her theatre reviews and thoughts on the world at her website, https://mathematicalmedievalist.wordpress.com/. It was a real treat for us all to hear her dulcet voice in place of my usual droning.  Hopefully, we’ll hear even more from her soon, both as a voice actor and as an author. 

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Feb 25, 2018

Well, friends, we made it.  I can finally say it…

Hello and welcome to episode fifty of Prose.

This week, traverse the pitfalls of life with two would-be, can’t-be, won’t be lovers. Then, endure the unknown on a trail with young Telo. Lastly, accept my humble thanks via a poem.

Just, wow, people.  Thank you all SO much for sticking with me for this long.  Some loose math on what, precisely, we’ve encountered thus far on our journey together is in order.  Again, loosely, we have wandered through around 70 hours of tales, philosophical meanderings, poems, and histories over the course of a little over 150 original episodes. Those numbers include two Christmas specials, two Easter specials, a New Year’s Eve special, some random thank-you specials, and, most recently, a Valentine’s Day special. 

As per my normal pleas, I hope that you’ll all go follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, as this can help the podcast get noticed; but, I truly beg you even more to head over  to iTunes and leave a rating and/or review for Prose.  Ratings and reviews set this show up for continuing into the future.  For easiest access to the show, subscribe using iTunes, Google Play, or whatever podcast catcher is your favorite. 

Thanks for listening.  Let’s get to the tales, shall we?

This week we have “To Protect the Innocent,” Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo  Parts XI and XII titled “Alone” and “The Trail,” and my reading of “When Giving is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos.  All that being said, maybe there are more surprises coming your way, too…

Enjoy, and, one more time for the record.  THANK YOU.

Feb 14, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate!  To those who don't, stick around. We'll have some fun today, too.

For the holiday, Prose is proud nine poems of sensuous, sumptuous loooooooove, plus plus some fun musical interpretation at the end. Today we have:

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe, Sonnets 18 and 130 by William Shakespeare, "The Definition of Love" by Andrew Marvell, "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning, and three original poems be me, Jared I. Magee - "Because You've Cut Our Lives Together Short," "Asclepius," and "The Lion and the Raven."

Enjoy!

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Feb 11, 2018

Find out what happened to the wayward male drone that escaped Nurse’s hive and what that means to Telo in Parts IX and X of Jack Lee's Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo titled "Fleeing" and "Betrayal."

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Feb 11, 2018

Hello and welcome to episode forty-nine of Prose.

This week, lose yourself and who you are destined to be only to find yourself again and find out what happened to the wayward male drone that escaped Nurse’s hive and what that means to Telo.

As always, thanks for listening.  Let’s get to the tales, shall we?

This week we have “Friday’s Child” and Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo – Parts IX and X: “Fleeing” and “Betrayal.”

Jan 28, 2018

Become enamored of the inner workings of another in this poem from first time guest author Hannah Cook.

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Hannah Cook is a native of the beautiful state of Arkansas. Her true loves in life include the art of writing, the great outdoors, and dancing at unexpected moments with her nieces and nephew. Her days are spent laughing with her family, stealing moments to scribble her stories, and enjoying the twists and turns that life throws her way.

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Jan 28, 2018

Rejoin Nurse and Telo as they run for their lives from vicious winged foes in Ants of the Fire: The Legend of Telo, a novella by Jack Lee, Parts VII and VIII: "The Flies" and "Stung."

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Jan 28, 2018

Hello and welcome to the long-awaited Episode 48 of Prose.  This week, rejoin Nurse and Telo as they run for their lives from vicious winged foes and jolt at some unintended consequences of a breakup. 


For Episode 48, we have Ants of the Fire:Legend of Telo, Parts VII and VIII entitled “The Flies” and “Stung” and “Take a Break.”  Also, as a way of apologizing, I have a special poem for you today from a new guest author, Hannah Cook.  Do stick around for that after the second story.  Enjoy!

Jan 1, 2018

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!
and gie's a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak' a right gude-willie waught,
for auld lang syne.

 

...Happy New Year from Prose.

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