Can I tell you a story?
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Creator: Ellen M Clarke
Multigenre Single-voiced Anthology Audio Book
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Story time for the dreamers and those who like life to be a bit weird. Suspend your disbelief at the door, sit down, get comfortable, and listen... A new story released every two weeks.
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Continuity: Anthology
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Genres: Multigenre
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Episodes:
Thu, 09 May 2024 22:52:00 GMT
Norah steals into the museum, intent on stealing something. Through a different window, Zebadiah does the same. They’re after an urn that might contain a blessing, or a curse – which it is depends on the answer to the question: what if you got exactly what you wanted?
Who will end up with the urn?
And will they receive a blessing, or a curse?
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Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:02:00 GMT
I found a ticket to an unusual circus and got lost in a hall of mirrors, and I didn’t like what they showed me. The ringmaster told me this was no ordinary circus – that everyone there was the act they came to see. He asked me if I liked my act and I had to say no, I didn’t like it at all. To which he replied: if you don’t like your act, change it…
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Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:02:00 GMT
Every day, just before sunrise, Chance flips a coin. The stakes are high. Heads, time continues. Tails, it’s the end of days…
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – become a podcast patron on Patreon! Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies - including my undying thanks. Literally undying... even after I'm dead and gone, my thanks'll be hanging around, haunting stuff. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory
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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:04:00 GMT
Aleida is afraid of the jungle. The way it’s crawling with life – vines and lichens and insects and animals, all striving and pulsing and reaching. If she stands still for long enough, she’ll be eaten alive. And it wouldn’t be personal – it’d just be because she was there.
Her uncle sends her into the jungle at night, searching for glowing mushrooms, and Aleida is sure there are hundreds, thousands of eyes staring at her in the dark. Her terror escalates until she runs out of fear… and finds something unexpected on the other side of it.
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – become a podcast patron on Patreon! Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies - including my undying thanks. Literally undying... even after I'm dead and gone, my thanks'll be hanging around, haunting stuff. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory
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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:08:00 GMT
Morgan loves the railway. The platform, the ticket office, the waiting room, the shining rails. The trains, running neatly to the schedule, keeping time.
At the same time, Morgan hates the railway. The platform, the ticket office, the waiting room, the shining rails. The rigidity of the timetable, the neat columns of hours and minutes dictating the movements of the lumbering trains, the way his days are always the same.
There’s nothing special about Morgan. Until he’s asked by a small, sticky child, who believes he’s magic, how he makes the trains come, and he learns that perhaps he IS magic and perhaps time isn’t his master, but his servant…
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – become a podcast patron on Patreon! Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies - including my undying thanks. Literally undying... even after I'm dead and gone, my thanks'll be hanging around, haunting stuff. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory
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The Complaints Department - The Wrong Life
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:12:00 GMT
The Complaints Department is back for their seventh instalment.
Joseph is living the wrong life. Every day he gets up, puts on a clean white shirt and neat black trousers and goes to sit in an office, answering telephones, aching with longing for something more. He comes across the Complaints Department by accident and doesn’t believe that it’s real – he thinks it’s enough to take an action that means nothing, posting a complaint into a letterbox that clearly goes nowhere.
Except… it doesn’t go nowhere, and Joseph gets more than he bargained for…
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – become a podcast patron on Patreon! Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies - including my undying thanks. Literally undying... even after I'm dead and gone, my thanks'll be hanging around, haunting stuff. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:22:00 GMT
One thing Zig knows is that she can get used to anything.
When Zig’s parents get divorced, she’s sent to live with her Aunt Mez where things are very different – just until the dust settles, her father says, and Zig imagines dust blanketing everything.
Living with Aunt Mez, Zig finds out that she's bigger on the inside, gets a rabbit called Catastrophe and learns that there's more than one kind of wicked.
And then the dust settles...
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The Road to Hell is Paved with Family Assorted Biscuits
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:07:00 GMT
Joren is in the biscuit aisle, trying to decide between Mint Cream and Monte Carlo. Unbeknown to him, he’s about to walk through a door that used to lead to a fairy wood but has been rerouted to Hell, where he will meet a singularly unhelpful angel. Will he ever find his way back? Will he ever get to buy his biscuits? Listen, and find out… Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Magnus & Lionel Beat the Demons
Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:53:08 GMT
Magnus is fighting demons in the lane behind the houses. Lionel is inside, making scones. Every day, Magnus asks the same question, and though it breaks Lionel’s heart to have to give the same answer, he dreads the day that Magnus stops asking… Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
The Dead Letter Office: Caleb Hunts a Song
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:07:00 GMT
Caleb is haunted by a troubled past – lost innocence and the ghost of the man he killed. His longing to return to the youth he was before it all went wrong drives him to the Dead Letter Office, in search of a song his grandmother used to sing. There, he’s faced with a choice of five doors. Will the door he chooses lead him to what he seeks? This is a special episode, because it features the Dead Letter Office - which is where my first novel is set. The novel is very much still in draft form, but it's exciting to be exploring the world through short stories. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy it. If you'd like access to bonus stories and would like to support the podcast, perhaps you’d like to become a Patron? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 23:17:00 GMT
Summer tends the labyrinth – a gentle, ground dwelling path with one way in and one way out. The maze is a different creature – walls too high to reach, dead ends and no centre… and, of course, the Minotaur. When she finds herself trapped in the terror of the maze, will she find her way through, or will the Minotaur find her first? Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
The Complaints Department: Light Through Glass
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:00:00 GMT
Fiona finds the Complaints Department letterbox by watching a stranger post a letter in what looks like a holy moment. Longing for a moment of her own, she pushes a hastily written complaint through the flap. She doesn’t get her holy moment, but what she does get is Silas, bent on being “benevolently confusing” – and she finds a different way of looking at herself and at the world. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT
Lefindra is named for a flower that doesn’t exist. She’s bored, restless, itching for a change she can’t define. So when Maxent tricks her onto a stolen yacht in search of a fruit that will grant his heart’s desire, what else is she to say but ‘yes’?
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Where the Surrealists go to Play
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT
Locke is regretting his decision to accept the invitation of a stranger before he’s even left his house. He’s regretting it more when he’s pushed through a wall by two large men, into the darkness beyond. Locke has met the Surrealists, and he only has one real choice, but will he take it, and surrender to the evening and the chaotic characters he meets? Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:00:00 GMT
Menny is standing on a rooftop in the rain, irritated by everything. He’s waiting for the sun to come out so he can paint the rainbow across the sky. But Menny is colourblind and the rain has washed the ‘this way up’ arrow from the lid of his tin of rainbow paint and if he gets it wrong, he’ll be out of a job… can he trust the leprechaun who leaves the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to help him? Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 02:03:00 GMT
Henty escapes the Big Top after his act and finds himself sitting in a church with a man named James. James may or may not have murdered another man with a fish to the face, and he’s asking Henty for absolution. Henty can’t grant him forgiveness, but he can accompany him back to the scene of the crime to find out once and for all. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory Not ready to become a patron, but want to contribute? Click here to send a tip via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=MULX7TM67KVEQ You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast FB: facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/
The Complaints Department: Strobe Light Days
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 02:12:00 GMT
Days reel past Sienna in strobe light flashes. Breathless and disoriented, she happens across a letterbox in the wall of an alley with ‘Complaints Department’ written above it, and finds herself pushing her feelings through the metal flap.
Sadie, a field officer for the Complaints Department, offers her a way out – will Sienna remember the chance she’s been given in the midst of the relentless passing of time? And if she does, will she accept it and find a way off the hamster wheel that her life has become?
Build yourself a blanket fort, get comfortable and find out…
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The Day Before Elsie & Maude Win the Lottery
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:00:00 GMT
Elsie and Maude sit at the bus stop outside Halfway to Heaven, watched over by one of the interchangeable Jessicas who sits behind the reception desk through the glass doors. They can’t face going back inside to what passes for life through those doors.
But that’s okay, because tomorrow, they’re going to win the lottery…
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – perhaps you’d like to support the podcast on Patreon? Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at patreon.com/canitellyouastory
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Burke & The Secret Of Eternal Life
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 02:00:00 GMT
Burke is a villainous villain who rides a penny farthing and owns a haunted cat. He’s bent on keeping everything a secret from everyone – particularly the whereabouts of the secret of eternal life.
Things start to go wrong when the clockwork armadillo he’s built to dig a tunnel to the home of the Eternal Monk runs down part-way, and he can’t fit into the hole to wind it.
His refusal to trust the people he has to turn to for help makes life more and more difficult… will he finish the tunnel and find the Eternal Monk and the secret he craves above all else?
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Fri, 18 Aug 2023 02:00:39 GMT
We met Joke and Morganna in the very first story - and now they're back, continuing their quest for dragons and for the ninth world (or call it exile if you want). Unknowingly, they’re joined by Minette, bent on escaping her impending marriage… will they find dragons? Will they find the Ninth World? Will the shape shifting figurehead turn into something that isn’t a penguin? Will Minette survive being thrown overboard? Get comfortable, listen, and find out…
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The Complaints Department: Jol's Sister
Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:00:00 GMT
This week, we revisit the Complaints Department as they resolve another existential complaint. If you haven't heard any of their stories yet, perhaps you'd like to scroll back a bit and listen to some of the earlier ones - or just dive in here!
Jol spends his life looking at the ground, trying to hold himself together so tight that he doesn’t fall into pieces, desperately hoping for closure he knows isn’t coming.
Until a flash of red at the corner of his vision leads him to the Complaints Department – a letterbox he’s never seen before in the wall of an alley he walks along every week. He whispers his secret longing through the flap, and he isn’t prepared for what happens next…
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The All-Night All-Clean Laundry
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 02:00:00 GMT
Mavis understands ducks and machines, but she isn’t good with people. So when a twitchy wizard shows up at her laundromat at 3am with no change needing clean socks and to be saved from himself, she is not amused. But with the fate of the world (and more importantly, her laundromat) at stake, what else is she to do…
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Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:00:25 GMT
First, credit and my grateful thanks to Carol - one of my excellent patrons and generally excellent human - for coming up with the title for this story!
Angeline is minding her own business with the crossword (nothing cryptic, mind, just the straightforward one), when there’s an almighty crash from outside.
A large, naked, glowing man has crash landed in her petunias.
Angeline isn’t prepared for this. Angeline will never be prepared for this.
Her worst nightmare is unfolding in front of her eyes. How is she going to unsee what she has just seen and restore her peace of mind?
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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:00:15 GMT
It takes Jasmin years to remember how to be alone again after her children are grown, removing all the coats she’d accumulated one by one. How did she get to be wearing so many of them? A lifetime of coats. Sensible dark woollen coats, heirloom fur coats, bulky padded winter coats. Spring coats thrown over shoulders just in case of rain. Coats made of ‘should’, coats made of ‘ought to’, coats made of duty and obligation and responsibility. Heavy, cumbersome coats.
She peels them from her body and stuffs them in the spare room until she’s removed enough to feel a silvery tug, pulling at her. It pulls her down to the beach and along the pier, it pulls her onto the silver-gold path that stretches across the water to the full, rising moon. The water is shimmery under her feet and Jasmin feels like dancing.
What happens when the moon goes behind a cloud and the path disappears?
What happens when the moon rises out of the water? Will the path stop beneath it? Will there be a ladder?
On the moon, Jasmin meets a rabbit who asks her a riddle she doesn’t know the answer to.
On the moon, Jasmin meets the Moon herself, and Jasmin is a child again, asking impossible questions.
The Moon doesn’t answer in words, but Jasmin receives answers nonetheless…
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The Complaints Department: Carnival Thinking
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:00:49 GMT
Laurie’s life feels meaningless. Every time she grasps at meaning, every time she tries to decide what her life should be about, meaning evaporates. Hope is like an hourglass and the sand keeps ticking through.
Late one night, Laurie pushes her complaint through the Complaints Department letterbox and keeps hoping.
Laurie doesn’t know what she was expecting, but it wasn’t Sadie, the young, annoyingly effervescent woman who takes her by the arm and leads her into the carnival, challenging everything Laurie thought she knew to be real...
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Fri, 26 May 2023 02:00:08 GMT
Annie lives with a demon on her shoulder, criticising everything she does. Mostly, she agrees with it. She’s 42. Shouldn’t she have done more with her life? Shouldn’t she be more than she is, by now?
Until her fairy godmother arrives, running a bit late.
Will Annie be granted the wit and beauty and charm she should have received at birth? Will her fairy godmother be a match for the demon? Will Annie finally be able to stand up straight, without the weight of the demon stamping its feet on her shoulder?
Pull up a chair, get comfortable, and find out…
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Fri, 12 May 2023 02:00:00 GMT
Emilie Underhamer is planning on living forever. Her plans are ruined when she wakes up dead, so to speak, to find a thief with his hands in her safe. It's safe to say she is not amused. The thief has troubles of his own - he's being played by the ruthless head of the Scoundrel's Quarter, who, coincidentally, is also planning on living forever. His plans are also foiled, as the plot thickens and then thickens some more...
Ghosts, thieves, alchemists, talking parrots and Lady Luck herself - who will come out on top?
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Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:00:28 GMT
There's an unexpected knock at Alma's door. It's a suit, with a man in it. A smooth, smiling man, whose words run rings around her and whose teeth are too white. This is new magic, a kind she hasn't seen before. Can Alma, with her old, twisty, earth magic, outwit him and save her house?
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The Complaints Department: Silas and the Serial Complainer
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:00:00 GMT
In today's story, we return to the Complaints Department and meet Silas.
Silas is brooding, mysterious, and does it on purpose. He’s a field officer at the Complaints Department, a mysterious organisation that resolves complaints of an existential nature. The Complaints Department endeavours to address all complaints within 30 days.
Mr Cotton (having looked over the wall and seen the Complaints Department letterbox goes nowhere) isn’t sure the Complaints Department is even real, and yet something keeps him writing reams of petty and contradictory complaints every day, trying to provoke a response.
Today is the twenty-ninth day. There’s a knock on the door. It’s Silas.
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Fri, 31 Mar 2023 02:00:45 GMT
Anne met a woman with no teeth, and she was smiling. Somehow, having no teeth made more room in her face for joy. Anne’s afternoon winds its way through roses, a bowl of peas, a hungry cat and many tears… at the end, nothing has changed and yet everything feels different.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:06:23 GMT
Can I tell you a story? Two girls drive into the desert in a car that's seen better days. They’re going to summon a fire spirit to grant them their heart’s desires.
This is not what happens.
Perhaps they shouldn't have listened to the crazy bee woman – she’s not all crazy, but what she says often isn’t what you think she means, and what they get isn’t what they bargained for.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:00:03 GMT
Can I tell you a story? Elodie is eight. She goes next door to wish Mrs Daisy a happy birthday (mostly because she wants Mrs Daisy to give her a chocolate chip cookie), but the inside of Mrs Daisy’s house isn’t there anymore. Elodie enters another world, makes friends with someone who talks as much as she does, and together they go to find the party.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:56:39 GMT
Vera is on her way home from the funeral of her last living friend. She's not sure what one does, when one is the last, and when her child has grown into a man she can’t like. Then she accepts an unexpected invitation from the wide blue sky, and she leaves her familiar belongings and escapes her horrible son and steps into a very different kind of life...
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The Complaints Department: June's loneliness
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:19:07 GMT
Can I tell you a story? June is lonely. Her parents are dead, she hasn’t a partner. She’s thinking about getting a dog. Then, she finds a letterbox in an alleyway with ‘Complaints Department’ written above it. She pushes her complaint through the flap and second guesses herself all the way home.
Her complaint reaches the Complaints Department, a mysterious organisation that resolves complaints of an existential nature. Enter Simone, clairvoyant and kind. How will she arrange events so that June doesn’t spend her days feeling desperately lonely?
The Complaints Department is a series, so if you loved this story - good news for you! This series of stories will find its way regularly into Can I tell you a story? Keep an ear out for more episodes coming soon :)
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:39:44 GMT
Can I tell you a story? It's a love story about a man, a woman, a river...
Ginny, a river spirit, needs adoration to survive. She meets a boy who’s not yet sure of the man he’ll be. Will he willingly give her his life for hers, surrender his whole heart so she won’t die and become just water, falling over rocks?
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:07:50 GMT
Can I tell you a story?
Joke (don’t ask him why his name is Joke) is the ruthless pirate captain of the finest sky ship in all the eight worlds. He tries to double cross the pirate queen and she sends him on a quest (call it exile if you want) to find the ninth world. He hopes he finds dragons out there, because he intends to tame one. He hopes the partner he’s been lumped with falls overboard. He hopes his ship’s shape changing figurehead turns into something other than a penguin, which rather spoils the effect of the majestic galleon cutting through the stars...
Will he get his heart’s desire?
I hope you enjoy the story.
If you do, let me know! I'm thinking it might be fun to write another installment about space pirates and the search for dragons...
*update April 14, 2023* the space pirates have demanded another story - stay tuned for their next episode, out in a few months.
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