This week, prepare for war with the man many call Jolly 'Ole St. Nick.
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Consider who the real Magi are and what gifts are all about with O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi."
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Welcome once again to my own family's Christmas Eve Tradition that I post every year for Prose - a reading of the Christmas story from the New Testament gospel of Luke. For those who celebrate, I hope that you'll enjoy and maybe make this a part of your Christmas tradition. For those that do not celebrate, I hope you'll enjoy for a good story's sake!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and I hope you all find warmth in the season!
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This week, bond in the future over the climatic disasters of the past and peruse a dating app.
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This week, contemplate how to rid your property of dog-headed men and dismantle a misconception.
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For this Thanksgiving special, consider how much you might mean to someone in “The Night Before Thanksgiving” by Sarah Orne Jewett.
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November 24, 2016 at 12:31 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, from the forests of northern Massachusetts, I published Episode 0, an "Introduction to Prose." So, as of, well, this very moment, Prose has been putting forth entertainment into the universe for half a decade.
Since that afternoon in 2016, the show has released 144 regular episodes, too many holiday specials to recall, a handful of bedtime stories for children amid the heat of the pandemic, and 347 original pieces of short fiction, not counting those holiday specials.
To celebrate today, I thought we could enjoy the first three stories ever published there in Episode 1. Please enjoy "Just Earth," "Lusus Naturae," and "Marlboro Man."
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This week, beware the autumn creatures and take a peek into an intimate day of pain.
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This week, lose your sanity while trying to write a travel book in Sweden.
For the original text to the short story, please go check out "Count Magnus" from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James.
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This week, have some saints work through you and encounter a ghostly prisoner of fabric.
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This week, cling to the magic of your mother tongue and meet some powerful women in white.
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This week, join the Primrose 33 family as we dive back into the full novella Sonbol. Let's get ready for some sci-fi adventure!
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Show Notes and Attributions:
Part I: The Breach
This portion of the story has numerous backing tracks behind it coming from both from Freesound.org the Free Music Archive. All of the backing tracks save to the next to last one come from the artist Jelsonic and were taken from the Free Music Archive. The tracks are titled “The Last Whale,” coming from the album Various Moods, “Seasong,” and “No Doubt,” coming from the album Various Moods II. All of these tracks from Jelsonic are being used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licenses. The track from Freesound.org was uploaded by creator Romeriogrande and is being used under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication License.
Part II: Persenche
This portion of the story has numerous backing tracks behind it coming from Freesound.org. The first ambient track comes from user cabled_mess and is being used under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication License. The second bit of music and the alarm sounds come from the same soundscape uploaded by user Drakensson and is being used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The final track comes from user ispeakwaves and is being used under a under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Part III: Circumjacent
All sounds present come from Freesound.org, and, indeed, they all come from the same contributor to the site—editijo. The tracks are being used under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Licenses.
Part IV: The Fallout
All sounds present come from Freesound.org, and, indeed, they all come from the same contributor to the sit—soundathon. The tracks are being used under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Licenses.
Part V: The Smock
The ambient noise track in the background of the story is from Freesound.org, and come from user Sclolex. It is being used under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication License. The music you hear was taken from the Free Music Archive. The track comes from Lee Rosevere’s album 5 Minute Meditations and is titled “5 Minute Meditations (album mix with alpha waves).” Mr. Rosevere’s track is being used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Thank you to all of these artists and these web collectives for making these works available for artists like me to further lift up their own work.
This week, amid the climate apocalypse, make a tough decision, so you can live to see another day.
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This week, play cards with three dangerous women and judge Cain reborn.
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An alien invasion is coming. Humanity was given five years to prepare.
Robert "Mack" McAlister, an overachieving young man from Tennessee, wants something more out of life, so he is off to train at the newly formed Global Confederation's Academy Prime in Dublin.
With two full years of the allotted five spent in rallying the planet, McAlister quickly realizes that preparing for the invasion is only a part of the challenge at hand. He must seek to bond with the three other members of his assigned quad of Primrose 33, fighting to form the relationships that make humanity worth saving before the world comes under attack.
After years of promising to do so, Sonbol the multi-part series published here on Prose many year ago has been released in e-book and paperback forms!
Please do consider heading over to Amazon and picking one up today!
This week, try to abandon good memories and meet a reluctant prophet lying for God.
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This week, be introduced to the funky place known as Notianimoba University, where you’ll hunt ghosts and fall in love.
Content Warning: Sexual assault
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This week, brave a monster’s cave once again to find purpose and feel the loss of purpose and self while being hunted in the streets of a grand city.
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Come join in on a reading of all four of the verses of Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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This week, get stuck at the ultimate red light and find horror and violence in a man’s dreams.
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Happy Fathers Day!
Come celebrate fathers and father figures everywhere with a children's story from my own father. Let's go witness the kindness of slowing down for the things that really matter.
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This week, try to make it over a mountain pass with a famous pioneer family.
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This week, practice what most would call witchcraft on your ex’s new partner.
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This week, get saucy with some dead men and find out where all those wishes you placed on stars ended up.
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Happy Mother's Day 2021!
In this short special, we'll have a reading of "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Rock Me to Sleep" by Elizabeth Akers Allen.
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