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From The Great Depression to the Great Recession by Margaret Dubois
This is a video I worked on with Margaret DuBois about her experiences during the
Great Depression. The project was greatly enhanced by the drawings of Sue Corbett. It was made in three parts so it could
be posted on You-Tube.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Audio Books in mp3 format narrated by Roy Trumbull
| Fat Chance |
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| Drawing by Bill Dempster |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull
Creative Commons Copyright 2009 Some rights reserved.
Detective Abe Howard and his AI computer Maija are looking for a killer. Members of
high society are slimming down by getting massaged. Their fat is being removed via the hungry hands of aliens. The story
is set 50+ years into the future. The Colorado River is more like a stream. The population in So. Ca is greatly reduced. The
number of casinos in Vegas was reduced in a high stakes poker game. There is no money to keep the interstate highway
system in repair. Freight Trains do the heavy lifting. Cars are electric. Most travel is just local. The U.S. has drifted
down and is now in the technological third world. The global "Big Olga" network was devised elsewhere.
The computer OS known by its slur "Mister Spaghetti" takes 5 1/2 hours
to boot and burns out hard drives is less than a year.
There is wordplay in Spanish, Yiddish, and a word or two in French and Finnish.
I've borrowed the character Lady Windermere from Oscar Wilde's story "Lord Arthur
Saville's Crime" and turned her into the So. Ca social lioness Bea Windermere.
The link will download a PDF file with click-able links to all chapters.
Fat Chance
Text of Fat Chance
Celtic Fairy Tales
The Celts in general and the Irish in particular had a great love of stories
and would adapt stories from far away and make them Celtic. The link is to a PDF file with description of the stories and
clickable links to my readings of them.
Celtic Fairy Tales
There are now four stories about Joey the boy geek
and his older brother Jeff the golfer. Click on the link for a PDF with information about each story and a clickable link
to the narrations.
The Joey Stories
Twenty Seven Classic Sci-Fi Stories plus 4 recent ones by Cory Doctorow
The download is a PDF file with hyperlinks to the stories. If you like them you can
email the PDF to a friend. This saves me a lot of site tedium. Eventually most of the story categories will be packaged
this way. Downloading stories via the PDF won't require a user name or password.
Twenty Seven + 4 Sci-Fi Stories
12 Stories About Dragons
The download is a PDF file with descriptions and hyperlinks to the stories. No user name or
password is required.
Dragon Stories
Welsh Fairy Tales collected by William Elliot Griffis
If you tie a leek to your door on St. David's day or root for Capt. Fluellin when you watch
Shakespear's Henry V, these tales are for you.
The link downloads a PDF file with clickcable links to the story narrations. No User names
or passwords are needed.
Welsh Fairy Tales
Stories by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - author
of the Wizard of Oz
Four short stories plus also The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and The Sea Fairies.
Download a PDF with all the click-able links. No User Name or password required.
L. Frank Baum
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
This ia an audio narration of the 17 chapter book that followed the play by a few
years. Both Peter Pan and Captain Hook are fleshed out in more detail.
The link downloads a PDF file that contains clickable links to all the chapters. No
user name or password is required.
Peter Pan
American Indian Stories
33 stories including the Indian Old-Man stories. Download the PDF file with click-able
links. No User name or password is required.
American Indian Stories
The Indian Fairy Book
This collection of American Indian Stories was first published in 1869.
The Indian Fairy Book
Seven Stories by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
1862 - 1910
This link downloads a PDF file with hyperlinks to the stories. No user name or password is
required.
O. Henry
Sixteen Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
The download provides a PDF file with descriptions and links to the stories. No user name
or password is needed.
Hans Christen Andersen
Eight Tales by Jack London (1876 - 1916)
Jack London really was a person who went everywhere and did everything. His novels and short
stories have held up amazingly well considering he died in 1916. I've enjoyed visiting his home at Glen Ellen State Park.
I hope these 8 stories will serve as a proper introduction to his writing. The download is a PDF file containing links. No
user name or password is required.
Jack London
Edison, His Life and His Inventions (1847 - 1931)
by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin - 1929
The publication date seems a bit late as one of the authors died before 1920 and a
number of references are to events as they were in 1910. I was impressed with the many disciplines Edison worked in, the many
accidents along the way that might have killed or disabled him, and the anecdotes that testify to his sense of humor. Some
chapters are strong and a few are weak. The chapter on the phongraph predates the pressing of records. The chapter on the
motion picture is sketchy at best. I was left with the impression that he was a formidable genius
The download is a PDF file containing clickable links to all of the chapters. No user
name or password is required.
Edison
The Short Stories of Edna Ferber (1885 - 1968)
Edna Ferber was a prolific short story writer and there are a number of collections
of her stories. She has a very smooth flow to her writing and no wasted words. She is best known for her novel "So Big"
which won a pulitzer, her novel "Show Boat" which became the musical of the same name and "Giant" which was the last movie
James Dean appeared in before his death.
The link downloads a PDF file with descriptions of the stories and clickable links
to the audio narrations. No user name or password is required.
Edna Ferber
The Tales of Bret Harte (1836-1902)
Bret Harte was an American writer. Many of his tales are set during the period of
the California Gold Rush. The link downloads a PDF file with clickable links. No user name or password is required.
Bret Harte
Links to Short Stories by Roy Trumbull
These are short stories and humerous pieces that are spread all over the Internet
Archive. The link downloads a PDF file with titles and short descriptions and click-able links.
Roy's Short Stories
KIDSHEIMERS!!!!
| A Whale On Wall Street |
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| A Whale on Wall Street - illustration by Bill Dempster |
A Whale on Wall Street by Roy Trumbull
This is a natural disaster story, a financial disaster story, and a love story. The country faced an epidemic of Kidsheimers,
a condition that caused adults to become childlike at work. It led to subprime mortgages and such.
A Whale on Wall St.
The text of A Whale On Wall Street
Alex the Parrot-guin
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A crazy story which opens in Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America featuring Alex, a bird who is half parrot and half
penguin. Next stop is an island in the Antarctic inhabited by ancient Egyptians who hail him as their god incarnate.
(I had no idea a pasenger ship would hit an iceberg not long after I published this story.)
In Punta Tombo near Rawson Argentina he becomes a movie star and founds a chain of espresso cafes. His co-stars include
Juanita and Glyn. In supporting roles we have Ruffa the dog and Al the seagull, Bernie the ibis and the entire tribe of Sethites.
This story started out a bit more crazy than it is. It was made up on the spot to settle my grandson who was bouncing
off the walls late one afternoon. He climbed into my lap and listened. So, I thought, why not flesh it out? As to what age
group it's appropriate for, I think "none" is a fair answer.
Alex the Parrot-guin
The Text of Alex the Parrot-Guin
Ozma of Oz & The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
These stories are available on the Children's Tales page. There are 5 new Celtic tales: The Maiden of the Green Forest,
Touch of Iron,The Mighty Monster Afang, The Great Red Dragon of Wales and The Boy That Visited Fairyland.
Children's Tales
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a site which has many volumes of text on file including some that have been used by Story Spieler Podcast.
It deserves your support.
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