Written and Read
52 episodes
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Synopsis:
Short stories and poetry, read aloud by the author.
Host: Nels Challinor
Theme Music by DAIN
Cover Art by Natalie Vukic
Language: English
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Anthology
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Solo
Genres: Multigenre
Completion status: Not applicable
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Episodes:
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500
"A Girl Called Tomorrow," originally published in reference mollusk in January of 2026.
"With the new name, she would be heartless, strong, angry, beautiful, young forever, temperamental, effortlessly cool. With the new name, she would be anything she wanted."
The Round-Up: Top Five Books for 2025
Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500
Discussion with Dale Hall and Charlie Hope-D'Anieri about the best books we read in 2024.
"Lolita" and "Pink Pigeon" by Alex Carolan
Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500
Two original pieces of flash fiction by Alex Carolan - "Lolita" and "Pink Pigeon" - originally published in Pom Pom Lit and Pinch, respectively.
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500
"My Angel," original and unpublished.
"I wake up beside an angel. Every morning, she plants a kiss on my lips. And then I get up to make coffee and feed the cat."
Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Trimbell's Complaint," original and unpublished.
"On October 2nd, 2029, at 7:42 PM PST, the Basketville sheriff department received a call from Mr. Trimbell’s neighbor, Mrs. Petunia Foxwood, stating that she heard strange loud noises coming from Mr. Trimbell’s backyard, including some yelling and profanity."
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Even Me," original and unpublished.
"As long as I can remember, I have been alone."
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Dog Won't Hunt," original and unpublished.
"Barry didn’t know how to refuse the flowers so he accepted them bashfully and left without saying thank you or goodbye."
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400
Krishna Sharma reads three original poems.
Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Sunday Morning," original and unpublished.
"For the first time that day, I felt sad, for it seemed to me that the place where someone died should be special or noteworthy in some way and yet, for all my riding up and down the tow path, I didn’t see anything besides a few pieces of garbage and a family of deer on the opposite bank and none of it seemed special to me."
Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400
Marcus Changed talks poetry and reads several original poems.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Follow Her," original and unpublished.
"My fear is unformed molten steel. It’s a knife, a jet engine, a crutch, whatever I need whenever I need it."
"The Simulator" with Alexandra Duprey
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"The Simulator" is an original one-act play.
Characters
Ben: Nels Challinor
Aliss: Alexandra Duprey
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Loneliness," original and unpublished.
"His attempts to soothe her, his soft cooing words, his very presence, these only made her angrier and sadder. This time, he lies very still, looking at his long unbitten fingernails and counting the digits to ten."
Tue, 13 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Candlemaker," previously unpublished.
"Our purpose, if we have one beyond the abilities we perform effortlessly thousands of times per day, is ethereal and divine. It is related to survival and beauty and the interrelatedness of all things. This is a fact that whoever wrote the employee handbook does not understand."
Three Untitled Poems by Dan Foley
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0400
Dan Foley reads three original poems.
Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Alarm," previously unpublished.
"They both feel lucky to have someone who cares enough about them to make sure that they are drinking enough water."
Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0400
"Walking to the Number 61," previously unpublished.
"Ian always frames his emails to colleagues in the passive voice. It’s a habit he picked up from his father, a librarian, who believed that if you did your job well, people wouldn’t notice, and if you did your job very well, people wouldn’t even know that your job exists."
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Singer-songwriter DAIN describes his songwriting process and how he wrote "Tinman."
DAIN is a Seattle based singer-songwriter / indie pop artist with an emphasis on storytelling in his lyrics. His music can be found here:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5PdbAN4rPvek632pFfpVKJ?si=XpTJm_m2Tk6Kp0FlaBLzBA
Bandcamp: https://dainweisner.bandcamp.com/album/sun-feels-good
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0500
"A Tribe of Genies," previously unpublished.
“Packets of cigarettes and boxes of sweets were passed round, and the bedouin women sang and danced, the night and the desert resounding with the echoes of a great feast, as though we were some tribe of genies.”
- Tayeb Salih
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500
"Locked Inside," previously unpublished.
"He couldn’t live with not knowing. It was far more painful to him than the violation of his home by these two yahoos, the loneliness he felt daily, the heavy shame that he carried around his house from the latch to the thermostat to the kitchen window."
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500
"The Promise," previously unpublished.
"He wonders whether change can be intentionally sought, or rather, like a sudden crisis of faith, it can only be experienced, it can only come as a reaction. If this is the case, which he comes to suspect and indeed worry that it is, he is forced to wonder what has to happen to him in order for him to change."
The Round-Up: Top Five Books of 2024
Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:00:00 -0500
Discussion with Dale Hall and Charlie Hope-D'Anieri about the best books we read in 2024.
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:00:00 -0500
"The Sirens of Santa Cruz," previously unpublished.
"The eucalyptus trees were dark crimson. The smell was intoxicating. I wish I could have shot them but the flash would have ruined the color and without it, the picture would be far too dark."
"Battered with Butter" & "Wells" by Alexandra Duprey
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0500
Alexandra Duprey reads two original poems.
"At the Poetry Reading" & "See the Stars"
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0500
Two original poems: "At the Poetry Reading" & "See the Stars"
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"The Sound with No Name," previously unpublished.
"Just before we walk through the door to the bar, I hear a small boy scream, 'Look, they’re just walking.'"
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"The Harmonica," previously unpublished.
"I had never before thought of music as something with divisible parts. It always just seemed like the air that humans needed to breathe – the air that they breathed through me to make me speak. "
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Penelope," originally published in CommuterLit in October of 2022.
"Beautiful he was in the braided lamplight over the drinks and the smoke and the cards, she remembers, beautiful."
"The Soup" by Charlie Hope-D'Anieri
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0400
Charlie Hope-D'Anieri reads his piece, "The Soup."
"The magnificent Beauceron has not received his due!"
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Ember Baby," originally published in JMWW in June of 2024.
“His father always told him that family was the one thing for which you sacrificed everything else. But he worried, with each passing day, if the love he felt for Madeline would be one of the things that he had to sacrifice in the name of family.”
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Theseus," originally published in Visual Verse Vol. 6 - Chapter 12 in October of 2019.
"She’ll tell you about her perspective, her layers, how she composes herself. She’ll tell you that she is both a subjective object and the process that creates that object."
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"A Companion Piece" (original and unpublished)
"The city, he says, alienates the individual, makes him feel as though he will be lost to history unless someone records both the great and the terrible things he does."
"Robinson's Wake" by Dale Hall
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:00:00 -0400
London-based writer Dale Hall reads his piece, "Robinson's Wake," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 12 in the Winter of 2019.
"Because of his purpose, Calderon likes to see parallels. Rather than seeing the text scraped from the parchment and replaced by other events, as Keiller does, he likes to see the text gone over with a ballpoint pen again and again until the page is rife with thick, black figures and occasional tears."
"Darth Vader Socks," "Optimism," & "1+1=1"
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0400
Three original poems: "Darth Vader Socks," "Optimism," & "1+1=1"
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Protest," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 13: Disruption in the City in 2020.
“We were against Islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia. We were against it all. Especially the hair.”
Tue, 28 May 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Porch Light" originally published in Ab Terra 2020 story collection from Brain Mill Press in January of 2021.
“I thought I already knew all the things I know but evidently, I don’t.”
Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400
"The Ear is a Vital Organ" originally published in The Future’s So Bright story collection from Water Dragon Publishing in November of 2022.
“Keep your eyes moving and your ears open, Sadie once told me, and the world will reveal all its secrets to you.”
"Sunny's Weekend," "Crazy" & "Sestina of the Long Road"
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400
Three poems:
"Sunny's Weekend"
"Crazy"
"Sestina of the Long Road"
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"Rat or Pigeon," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 12: Mapping the City in December of 2019.
“He’s furious. The full and crippling indignity of his hour-to-hour existence has finally dawned on him.”
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400
"The Midland Railroad Hotel," originally published in The Purple Breakfast Review in June of 2019.
"Whatever they were, they were together. They were alive and they were together."
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0400
"The Mirror," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 11: The Liminal Edition in April of 2019.
“My wife tells me that she can never see herself in my work so I say I will make her a mirror.”
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox - Episode 4
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0400
Final episode. Back in Bullseye, Mr. H's family adjusts to his absence. The mastermind behind this heist is revealed.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox is a serialized Western-inspired crime story, told through the voices of twelve characters.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox - Episode 3
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:00:00 -0400
Mr. H travels North with Murphy and Pinkerton in search of the precious stamps. Meanwhile, Reginald Schwarz - the sheriff of Bullseye - has trouble getting to sleep.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox is a serialized Western-inspired crime story, told through the voices of twelve characters.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox - Episode 2
Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0400
Mr. H prepares to leave Bullseye and we learn more about his wife and daughters.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox is a serialized Western-inspired crime story, told through the voices of twelve characters.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox - Episode 1
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0400
In the first installment of Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox, a mysterious Mr. Murphy arrives at the Bank of the Black Ox with a proposition for the owner, Mr. H.
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox is a serialized Western-inspired crime story, told through the voices of twelve characters.