The honeymoon is over.

Ok, ok, ok, enough lazing around.  BACK TO THE SHOW!  You can subscribe through iTunes dude.  Or listen below.  But now I gotta go.  Rhyming like a toe...  damn it.

Episode #23: Worse.

here's some words:

“...why’d you come back from wherever the fuck you were hiding out.  Everybody was doing fine here without you,” he said.  Dale got the match lit, then puffed on his cigarette ravenously.  It calmed his nerves.  “Doesn’t matter.  And hell, it's probably for the best.  Sometimes a boy is better off without the old man around.  Look how you turned out, me being as attentive as I was.”

“Didn’t have to do with you,” Dale said.  He could hear the old man sigh.

“You may have your mother’s heart, but you’ve got my brains.  I know how you think on a macro level.  Poor judgement, it’s a hereditary disease.  Like baldness or… being poor for that matter.  We are born with it and then we have to learn to manage the symptoms.  I only fucked up one kid’s life, that’s my achievement.”

USA! USA! USA!

July's episode of Cheap Fun! The Short Story Podcast will be released soon.  I have been out of the country on my honeymoon, and although I was going to force myself to get everything done to be released today I took a note from the europeans and decided to slow my roll a bit (and drink wine instead).  So if you haven't caught up on the latest series of stories now is your chance!  You can stream every episode through this page or...

Subscribe through iTunes.

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No sadness, no sorrow, no trouble....

Episode #22 sends former detective Robert Gibson back to the gas station, what he finds ain't pretty... this is the fourth part of a series that started with Episode #16 Special Occasion, and continued with parts two and three last month.

Here's a preview to get you going:

Rob felt the pain in his knuckles.  He rubbed his hands together hoping the heat would help, but the storm was coming fast.  Rob lit a cigarette successfully despite the wind and  paused to smoke and think.  Rob assumed the clerk was dead, but he was then overcome with the sense that the boy had not yet reached a point of redemption from whatever depths he had fallen to.  He was working a shit job, and he was trying to make the best with what he had.  He was taking advantage of the chance if that’s what it was.  Rob felt wrong for doubting the clerk.  What he said about the wolves was true enough.  The boy understood evil, maybe because he had been a close party to it recently.  He hadn’t understood enough to avoid it entirely, or else he still underestimated how it could turn on him, being the way young men are.  Now he was dead, or running through the woods with a bullet in him.  He was a true innocent in this case, and Rob had failed him by not seeing the shape of it sooner.

Going on road trip this summer?  Maybe a long flight?
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Mouse in the house

You can't keep a good cat down.  Even one that only has two teeth.
Stream the episode below, or check it out on iTunes.

Make a friend day...

Episode 18: Vulture

Its make a friend day on Cheap Fun!
Special guest stars sit in at the Shenandoah Studio.
Have you met the sound guy at that studio?  Kind of a prick.  I'd like to give him the what for…  what for?

Anyway…  my wife Katherine and two friends Irum Javed and Jessica Wilson lend their voices to my weird ass story.  They are great!  Listen to the show here, below these words I am typing, or go here, here, or here.

CHEAP FUN! Episode: 17

Happy New Year!  This month's story is titled "Strange Hours."  An adventure in domesticity.  Like Raymond Carver but less drunk.

NAIL TALE

Check it out, artwork for next month's podcast poster.  Holy moly.  You can check it out on iTunes December 1st.

Episode 15, with cheese please.

Listen here or subscribe through iTunes.  

Can you buy skunk ape urine on ebay?

Bigfoot makes a cameo

Next month's podcast poster in the works.  Two color reduction print.  You can still check out this month's episode by going here.  You can also subscribe through iTunes, just search the iTunes store for Cheap Fun! The Short Story Podcast.

And hey, why not review and rate the show on iTunes?
Are you busy?
Yes?
Alright.

Year two starts..... NOW!

Uh oh, episode #13.  Could this be our lucky number?  You can listen here,  cheapfun.libsyn.com, or subscribe through iTunes just search for Cheap Fun! The Short Story Podcast in the iTunes store.  It's free of charge, the only cost being bandwidth.

Sneak a peek!

Episode #13 Mister Carlson Gets Deported on Cheap Fun! The Short Story Podcast up this Sunday September 1st.  You won't hear from me again until I'm a married man...

Here's a sneaky peek at the story:

Mr. Carlson was infuriated.  He had more than proven his worth to this country. He had been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Common Bankshares, Inc. since ‘73, and chairman of the board since 1988, among other titles.  Surely this was not the resume of a criminal.  Yes, he had his car impounded in New Hampshire a few years ago after he was found asleep on the side of the road, but there was never anything proven.  Sure he had totaled the Mercedes one summer evening in a rainstorm when he and Millie slid down an embankment into a gushing stream, but Millie had drank more than he and it was the fourth of July, they were entitled!

AY-MUR-ICKA

Here it is, episode 11.  Teenage boys fighting boredom with fire.  Thanks again to the RAC for funding my future endeavors.  Episode 12 will be the year anniversary of the podcast so expect cake and ice cream.  For me, not for you.

BOO! ARRRGGGHH! PODCAST!

OOOOooooOOOoooOOoOOOO!

This month's story is "The Writer's Ghost."  Scary stuff.  Not in the creepy clown sort of way.  More in the crushing weight of life choices sort of way.  There's also some animal abuse.  Yikes.


here's some text from the story to get your fruit juice fermented:

The writer's ghost speaks to you from beyond the grave.
Of course its your choice if you want to listen.
He goes around moaning and you're certainly not wrong to question his credibility.
If there is truth to his pain it's fruitless and everlasting.
If he appears to reach a climax relief will be fleeting.
Soon enough he will find something else to moan about.
And no amount of prayer will shut him up.


LOL! ;-)

PROMOTE THAT SWEETNESS

For each upcoming CHEAP FUN! podcast episode I will be making these fliers for you to see and then   go back home immediately from where ever you saw it,  turn on your gizmo, download, listen and  smile.

There is ice cream in your future

Happy stories for everybody!  Check out this months episode of CHEAP FUN, the short story podcast.  
There's ice cream...

Here's a quote to get you pumped:

"... he might have floated all the way down to New Orleans before drowning.  Whole new varieties of pain entered his mind.  Sharks in the Gulf.  Assholes on jet skis.  Fire spewing over water.  Tar and feathers.  Crabs picking at the bones."

Some light-hearted listening for a fine day.


Also, if you want to check out some old episodes, please be my guest.

It's raining men... and fire and brimstone.

My last short story podcast before the end of the world, it better be a good one.
No, there is ten minutes of me listening to / commenting on tornado sirens.
Yes I am that provocative.
Enjoy.
 

Hail to the BLEEP BLOOP BLEEP!

A new podcast episode for your listening pleasure...
or your listening torture.

Due to some technical issues and some people getting married and making me drink excessively I will not be able to do the Holiday Sale that I planned for November 24th.  Just don't have the time to finish everything by then.  But, don't fret, FURBIES are back!  So spend your money on that.

Time Flies Like a Bananananananana

How many "n"s in banana?  Too many.  If I am elected I will repeal at least one of the "n"s in banana.

There is a bit of a political rant in there, but don't get all worked up.  I, for one, have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about.

The new story I am reading is Time Flies Like an Arrow subtitled Fruit Flies Like a Banana.  I like subtitles.  Maybe a little pretentious... sometimes.  Mine are meant to be like when someone adds an extra line onto a joke, or when they put a maraschino cherry on your sundae.  It might not be funny or edible but the effort is well intentioned.  They want to make a good thing better.  Then it's ruined.  Human nature.

Again, what am I talking about?  You have to listen to the episode.

Another way not to make money!

Episode 1: Spaghetti and Meatballs is now up.
Here's a drawing for good measure...