Short Stories from The Casket of Fictional Delights
New and original Short Stories and Flash Fictions are unlocked when you open The Casket of Fictional Delights. They will intrigue, amuse and maybe provoke. Hear them here first, read by various professional actors and voiceover artist. I hope you enjoy listening to the stories and will tell your friends about them.Podcasts
Short Story Susan Tates Countdown to Christmas
Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 2 seconds
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Short Story Maids of Pen Neidr
Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 33 seconds
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Short Story A Toxic Tapastry
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza- Positive Thinking
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Gran Knows Best
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Seasons
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Hot Feet
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza White Sandals
Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Making Moves
Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Knight of the Rocks
Published: Aug. 10, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Only Half in Shade
Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza Summer Frock
Published: Aug. 3, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds
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2023 August Flash Fiction Bonanza A Summer Retirement, Maybe
Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
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Short Story Born Blonde
Published: July 19, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds
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Short Story My Invisible Friend
Published: June 28, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
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Short Story Extra Chocolate
Published: June 14, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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Short Story -Touching Rim
Published: May 30, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds
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Short Story A Shift in Time Zones
Published: May 8, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds
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Short Story Pins and Needles
Published: April 18, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
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Short Story The Waltzing of Matilda
Published: March 27, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
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Short Story The Client List
Published: March 7, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 26 seconds
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Short Story When L.O.V.E. is > Rob Lowe + Jello
Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 58 seconds
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Short Story The Lost Child
Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds
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Short Story Walls of Jericho
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
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Short Story In the Time it Takes to Make a Risotto
Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds
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Short Story The Eccentric Tourist
Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year December
Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year November
Published: Sept. 19, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year October
Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year September
Published: Aug. 29, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year August
Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year July
Published: Aug. 8, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year June
Published: July 29, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year May
Published: July 18, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year April
Published: July 8, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year March
Published: June 27, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year February
Published: June 17, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 28 seconds
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Short Story Susan Tates Year January
Published: June 6, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds
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Short Story The Roaring Sixties
Published: May 11, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds
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Short Story The Dig Tree
Published: March 16, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Short Story Dolls Houses and Memories
Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes
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Short Story Hyena Woman
Published: Jan. 17, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 57 seconds
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Short Story Preparing for Christmas
Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds
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Short Story Second in Line...
Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
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Short Story Under the Peir
Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection The Taste of Shoe Polish
Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection What the Stars mean to You and Me
Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection The Sweet Smell of Success
Published: Sept. 17, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection Marginalia
Published: Aug. 13, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection Blooming Hell
Published: July 30, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection Three for Two
Published: July 16, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds
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Flash Fiction 2021 Summer Collection Near the Edge
Published: July 2, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
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Short Story The Ladder
Published: May 26, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds
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Short Story Heraklion
Published: March 18, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds
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Short Story Saint Valentines Day
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds
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Christmas Short Story CHOCCOs Away
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
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Short Story Lucy Reborn
Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection Heavyweight Dreams
Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection Checkout Girl
Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection The Ties that Bind
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection A Womb of Ones Own
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 29 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection Soiled
Published: July 31, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection Fragile
Published: July 17, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds
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Flash Fiction Summer Collection To See A Star
Published: July 3, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
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Short Story Up On The Roof
Published: April 21, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
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Short Story Porky Pig!
Published: March 18, 2020, 10:10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 54 seconds
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Short Story The Pink and Green Picnic Hamper
Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 10:15 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds
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Short Story Junes 21st Birthday and the Mothers
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 4 seconds
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Short Story Lucky Elf
Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
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Short Story A Gentlemans Wager
Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Short Story Cooked
Published: June 12, 2019, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Short Story The Fourth Wise Man
Published: Dec. 21, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
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2018 Flash Fiction Competition Winners
Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
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Short Story Something Like Pleasure
Published: June 20, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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Short Story The Single Shining Dot
Published: April 25, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds
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Short Story Lost Boys
Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
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2017 Flash Fiction Competition Winners
Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 20 seconds
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Short Story The Female of the Species Part 3
Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 39 seconds
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Short Story The Female of the Species Part 2
Published: Sept. 14, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
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Short Story The Female of the Species Part 1
Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds
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Short Story Bitterness
Published: July 19, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Short Story The Pool Man
Published: June 21, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
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Flash Fiction Compilation Two
Published: April 15, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 8 seconds
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Flash Fiction Compilation One
Published: April 10, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds
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Short Story He Knocked so Softly
Published: March 22, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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Short Story Wild Gestures
Published: Feb. 14, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds
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Short Story Digging a Hole for Douglas
Published: Dec. 7, 2016, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Short Story Her, Next Door
Published: Aug. 24, 2016, 9 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds
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Short Story Lady Elfleda
Published: June 6, 2016, 9 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds
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Short Story A Disappearance
Published: April 20, 2016, 9 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 6 seconds
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Short Story Helicopter
Published: March 30, 2016, 9 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 5 seconds
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Short Story To the Point
Published: Jan. 12, 2016, 10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
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Short Story Fishing for Keys
Published: Dec. 16, 2015, 10 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
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Short Story Aunty Marys
Published: Oct. 31, 2015, 10 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
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Short Story- The Highland Line
Published: Sept. 16, 2015, 9 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds
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Short Story Green Room Yellow Room
Published: Aug. 26, 2015, 9 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds
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Short Story In the Caldera
Published: Feb. 24, 2015, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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Short Story – A Christmas Tale
Published: Dec. 5, 2014, 6:10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds
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Short Story – Clinging On
Published: Aug. 22, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
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Short Story – The Neon Exit
Published: June 6, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 1 second
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Short Story – Dolores
Published: April 16, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 2 seconds
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Short Story – The Twentieth
Published: Jan. 10, 2014, 10 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
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Short Story – Camels and Canapes
Published: Dec. 4, 2013, 10 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds
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Short Story – The Pear
Published: March 3, 2013, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Short Story – Ladies’ Day
Published: Feb. 3, 2013, 6:38 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
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Short Story – Three Portraits & Three Tales
Published: Nov. 3, 2012, 9:49 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Short Story – The Registrar’s Daughter (3/3)
Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 9:33 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds
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Short Story – Gardeners’ Delight
Published: Sept. 2, 2012, 12:10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds
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Short Story – Burp of God
Published: July 30, 2012, 8:59 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds
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Short Story – Big Fish Little Fish
Published: March 28, 2012, 9:09 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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Short Story – Manufactory of Smells (2/3)
Published: Feb. 29, 2012, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
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Short Story – Statue (1/3)
Published: Jan. 29, 2012, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds
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Short Story – THE Carol Service
Published: Dec. 9, 2011, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds
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Short Story – Collateral Damage
Published: Oct. 30, 2011, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds
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Short Story – The White Bathroom
Published: Sept. 26, 2011, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
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Short Story – Ministering
Published: Aug. 30, 2011, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds
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Short Story – My Father’s Head
Published: July 31, 2011, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
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Short Story – Colours That Suit
Published: June 6, 2011, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds
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