Corvairs & Horny Toads Podcast
18 episodes
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Creator: Lucinda Blackwood
Solo Slice of life Anthology Audio Book
Synopsis:
My collection of short stories focuses on a fictional small town on the Texas-New Mexico border. My stories show the surprising diversity of the people of the Llano Estacado, as well as the grit and determination it takes to survive and thrive on the windblown plains.
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Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Anthology
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Solo
Genres: Slice of life
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Episodes:
Season 2, Episode 7: Oil Wells, Fried Quail and Silver Dollars
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:00:00 GMT
Something bad had happened to Priscilla, something that had turned her eight-year-old world upside down.
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Season 2, Episode 6: A Christmas Surprise
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Jerry Dale had been busy buying furniture and having drapes made for their new house while Ike put in a lawn and landscaping. Christmas had almost been an afterthought.
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Season 2, Episode 5: Chow-Chow (full story)
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Listen to Chow-Chow—the whole short story. Parts 1 and 2 were released in earlier episodes.
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Season 2, Episode 4: Chow-Chow Part 2
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT
What will a person do with the good and the bad things that happen to them? Will they make their life into something sweet, spicy and tart to be relished?
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Season 2, Episode 3: Chow-Chow Part 1
Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Mrs. Yoshida was always busy keeping her three children and her husband tended to. It seemed they inhabited a great nest, crowded together, mouths gaping, always wanting something of her.
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Season 2, Episode 2: Tot Hecheverria and The Ranch House Cafe
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Tot could trace his lineage back to Europe, particularly the Basque country that straddled Spain and France. But it was his reputed ancestor from southern Spain who struck his fancy the most. Miguel de Cervantes.
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Season 2, Episode 1: The Courthouse Squirrels
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT
The courthouse was built in the Pueblo Deco style, a riff on Art Deco that employed Pueblo and Navajo motifs. The squirrels performed rodent rituals in the shadow of a building that bore witness to the past and kept its secrets.
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Episode 11: High School Diary Mini-Episode
Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:00 GMT
Listen to me read the mortifying entries from the pink leather diary I kept as a surly teenage girl.
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Episode 10: Mother's Day Mini-Episode
Sun, 12 May 2024 11:00:00 GMT
Last Mother’s Day, I held a memorial for my mother. A gathering of our family of friends.
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Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:00:00 GMT
She wanted it all to disappear like the dust devils they chased that rose up and away, dissipating into nothing.
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Episode 8: Betty's Roy Orbison Playlist
Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:00:00 GMT
The Beal County Sheriff broke the news that they had been murdered early that morning.
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Episode 7: Jerry Dale's Bottomless Lakes Adventure
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:00:00 GMT
There was a lot going on in Jerry Dale’s world right now. It was the end of her senior year of high school, and her senior class trip was approaching.
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Episode 6: Kinfolk and a Yellow Meat Watermelon
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:00:00 GMT
He sliced the melon straight down the middle. It fell open, revealing the yellow meat glistening with sweet juice, the black seeds arranged in rows.
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Episode 5: The House on Third Street and Avenue B
Sun, 03 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT
The sweet fragrance that drifted from beds of blue hyacinths carried memories of happier days.
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Episode 4: Skippy Fairweather and the Two-Headed Calf
Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:00:00 GMT
From the window of Dan’s Boot Shop, a calf’s four big brown eyes stare into Skippy’s two big brown eyes and witness the 5-year-old boy’s undoing in front of the whole town.
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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:00:00 GMT
History. Somehow, people can’t help getting it wrong. Consequences reverberate across generations, roiling emotions, dismantling families. Lucia Montoya discovers secrets and imagines what should have been.
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Episode 2: Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?
Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:00:00 GMT
A Jazz Age story that follows Ruby’s exploits from her adventurous only-childhood as the littlest of equals with her charismatic parents to the missteps and triumphs of her adulthood. And, yeah, she got real mad at her man!
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Episode 1: Horny Toads and Christmas Lights
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 06:47:17 GMT
Two little girls forge a friendship out of family tragedy, generational trauma, open-hearted kindness and a mutual love of little horned lizards.
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