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"Seen from Paradise" by Dorothy Richardson
At last, she has a place to get away from friends and family--just a cottage in Cornwall, but paradise to one trying to write in peace and solitude. And then friends go and write to say they're... More...
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"Lake Ghosts" by Ilse Aichinger
Three ghosts, three histories, one lake in Germany. This is a somewhat enigmatic, impressionistic European travelogue, taking us to a place where few of us might want to fish or swim. Translated...
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"Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!" by Conrad Aiken
Ah--a shipboard romance: the stuff of Hollywood and of clichés. This one doesn't quite avoid all the conventions, but it does give a certain poignancy and clarity to class and cultural differences...
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"The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard
As a medical student, J. G. Ballard would have had to perform dissection on a human cadaver, and this story shows the influence of that no doubt very formative experience. But here the giant--a... More...
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"A Far Cry" by Zona Gale
Scene: small-town America, probably somewhere in the midwest circa 1925. Main characters: Mr. and Mrs. Dasher, their 40-year-old unmarried daughter Jerry, and the little son of Mr. Dasher's gravely......
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"On the Sidewalk" by John Updike
April Fool? OK--it's not really Jack Kerouac; it's John Updike imitating On the Road, of course, when Updike was very young and Kerouac was still a new sensation. Bet we didn't fool anyone. Read by......
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"The Ghosts of August" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Traveling in Italy, a couple and their young children visit a famous writer who lives in a semi-ruined palazzo in the hills, an enormous place with, of course, a secret. Ghosts may indeed walk in...
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"Aeronautics" by Harry Crosby
Surrealism's somewhat heavy hand certainly shows in this stream-of-whacked-out-consciousness escapade from playboy poet Harry Crosby, first published in the famous modernist magazine transition. The......
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"The Angel" by Hans Christian Anderson
Flying to heaven with a recently deceased child in his arms, an angel conveys to the child touching secrets and profound wisdom. A discarded plant is rescued, as well--and all ends happily, we... More...
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"The Fall of the Roman Empire" by Haruki Murakami
Is this narrator crazy? you might ask, and we wish we had a ready answer for you. Maybe he's just a little... obsessive, and a little muddled when it comes to mixing up history and the weather and......
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"Three-Minute Novel" by Heinrich Mann
Well, three minutes to read on the page, perhaps, but three times that to read aloud. Here we have a complete bildungsroman in just a few pages, with the requisite gambling and fatal romance.... More...
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"The New Melusine" by Johann Goethe
What to do with a wife who is nearly perfect but has the bad habit of occasionally becoming as small as an elf? In this self-contained fairy tale from the unfairy tale Wilhelm Meister's Travels, the......
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"At the River" by Patricia Grace
Amongst the many Maori stories we have posted, we still haven't had featured one about eel-hunting, and so we felt compelled to introduce to you this sweetly sad episode set most likely in the New......
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"The Glow-Worm" by Frederic Prokosch
The celebrated Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova comes to visit Texas in the early twentieth century and leaves a lasting impression on a young boy and his family. The dancer ignites something in the......
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"An Act of Reparation" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
New wife and old wife meet and it all ends up in a tale of ox-tail soup and a subtle sort of revenge. What the husband doesn't know... well, perhaps he will never find out. Read by Scoot. Time... More...
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"Cat's Eye" by Luisa Valenzuela
Woman or she-beast? Were-panther or simply a modern, empowered Argentine female... we leave conclusions up to the reader regarding this surreal drama. Read by Scoot. Translated by Christopher...
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"The Warm" by Robert Sheckley
Read by Scoot. Time 19:33. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"On the Neverending Terrace" by Anna Maria Ortese
Read by Scoot. Time 14:12. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"Lenten Loves" by Henri Murger
Read by Jonathan Strong. Time 14:14. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"The Mountain of Signs" by Antonin Artaud
Read by Scoot. Time 9:37. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"The Explosion in the Parlor" by Bai Xiao Yi
Read by Scoot. Time 2:32. Details to come... from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"Looking for a Rain God" by Bessie Head
Read by Scoot. Time 9:58. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"The History of a Good Warm Watch Coat" by Laurence Sterne
Read by Scoot. Time 30:18. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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"Love" by William Maxwell
Read by Scoot. Time 7:24. Details to come...from Scoot & Friends More details at storiestogo.blogspot.com
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All bound for Mu-Mu Land
Hi, anyone who might stumble here in late May and early June, 2006! We're traveling the land in our ice cream van, just like those Justified Ancients, and we wanted to let you know that on the way...
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