Real Twilight Zone vibes for this week’s commute-sized episode! The First One by Herbert D. Kastle featuring the story of a family man returning from an incredible adventure to his…

I. Love. Science Fiction. So this week I’m featuring the granddaddy of SciFi crunchy goodness, H.G. Wells and what totally feels like a precursor to his famous War of the…

The absolute shortest Sherlock Holmes and Watson story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for this week’s episode. Originally written in June 1924 to be included in Queen Mary’s Doll…

Today’s episode is a dramtic reading of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. Reading this when I was younger, this was the first real bit of writing where I…

Today, I’m taking you back to my 9th grade english class (shout out to Capital High School in Olympia,WA!) for Civil War Veteran and Author Ambrose Bierce’s short tale of…

Murder most foul! Mystery and intrique flow through this short detective story by Dickens. Could the villian be the sinisterly named Mr. Julius Slinkton?! I might even go a step…

Real tear jerker this week. I love Oscar Wilde and this early story of his carries the emotional weight that he’s able to write so well. This short story was…

Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens AKA Mark Twain’s time to shine! This week’s short story selection is the basis for many stage and screen adaptations out there including Brewster’s Millions and…

Terrible person, great storyteller. That’s H.P. in a nutshell. By request, here’s a more bite-size edition of Tall Man, Short Stories for those short commuters I’m so envious of… I…

Want to consider the concept of mortality in a new and frightening way? This weeks’s short story selection is ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, a short story written by…