The Ten-Minute Storyteller

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The Ten-Minute Storyteller

Want to hear some entertaining stories but don't have a lot of time? Here's your ticket to ride. The Ten-Minute Storyteller arrives packed with humor, pathos, humanity, and originality… in ten minutes or less. All stories written and narrated by Bill Simpson, an acclaimed novelist who has, after many years in the kitchen, perfected the short short story.  

  1. Inertia

    3 DAYS AGO

    Inertia

    This week we meet Tammy. Every day Tammy thinks about doing it. And every day she doesn’t do it.She wants to do it, or at least she thinks she does, but still she doesn’t do it.She wants to do this and do that, go here and go there, but desire so rarely leads to action.What is Life? What’s it for? What are we supposed to do with it? Is it anything more than the Random Thoughts in our Heads? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    11 min
  2. Shrunk

    OCT 3

    Shrunk

    This week we meet Tad. After years of Talk Therapy Tad finally has a breakthrough. He finally spits out the Truth. Finally utters the unutterable. But is his Shrink listening? Or has his Shrink checked out of the Game, consumed as he is by his own angsts and anxieties, his own dreams and desires?SHRUNK asks those old Socratic questions: Do our fellow humans hear a word we say? Or does all the gibberish just fall on deaf ears?Was it, me wonders, a giant cosmic joke to allow Humans to Communicate with all these silly little utterances that spill from our lips? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    14 min
  3. Sidewinder

    SEP 26

    Sidewinder

    This week we meet Baby Kane and his parents, Adam and Erin. Baby Kane is just about to escape from the back yard and crawl up onto the railroad tracks at the same moment the Union Pacific rolls west across the New Mexico desert. Will Baby Kane get splattered by the lead locomotive? If he manages to stay off the tracks, what about the venomous rattlesnake that’s just had its rattle severed by the fleeing caboose? Will that sidewinder nail Baby Kane if not the train? Mom and Dad are busy with their new biz, Land of Enchantment Adult Gifts and Novelties. They don’t know their boy’s in jeopardy. They don’t know what evils lurk.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    14 min
  4. The Heiress and the Fastballer

    SEP 19

    The Heiress and the Fastballer

    This week we meet the Fastballer. Throws over a hundred mph. Just signed a big fat MLB contract.She’s a billionaire’s daughter. A wild thing. Really likes to have a good time. The crazier the better.They meet at a South Beach soiree and that same night she recruits him for a trip to Greece to attend a fancy destination wedding. What could possibly go wrong? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    15 min
  5. Constance Sillence

    SEP 12

    Constance Sillence

    This week we meet Constance. Constance Sillence. The fifth of nine children. She bore five children of her own, two surviving. The short, unhappy life of Constance Sillence unnerves and disheartens even the hardest souls, but alas, her story is as common as passed gas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    12 min
  6. Civil War

    SEP 5

    Civil War

    This week we meet Ace. Ace’s girlfriend decided it might be fun to vacation in Israel, enjoy some of the ancient sites mentioned in the Bible. So off they went. Unfortunately, some bad timing along with some very bad luck turned their vacation into a nightmare of Biblical proportions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    13 min
  7. Ralph & Red

    AUG 29

    Ralph & Red

    This week we meet Ralph. Ralph’s a good old country boy who epitomizes the old cliché: Never judge a book by its cover. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    13 min
  8. The Man Who Can't Get Up

    AUG 22

    The Man Who Can't Get Up

    This week we meet Zeb. A monument to virility. Manly to the core. Fifty years chasing the ladies. But, alas, not so much anymore.He started young, made women his vocation. Unfortunately, it’s looking like he’ll need a fresh inspiration.Times they are a-changin, machinery all worn out. Poor boy’s emasculated, of that there is no doubt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    12 min
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Want to hear some entertaining stories but don't have a lot of time? Here's your ticket to ride. The Ten-Minute Storyteller arrives packed with humor, pathos, humanity, and originality… in ten minutes or less. All stories written and narrated by Bill Simpson, an acclaimed novelist who has, after many years in the kitchen, perfected the short short story.  

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