An amateur historian, would-be podcaster and fan of old pulp and weird fiction. I am trying my hand at reading and recording works by Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith and other pulp writers, as well as surrealist and humorists such as Frank Key.
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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).
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Alfred Jarry’s famous piece of surrealism.
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Hugo award short story from 2004. Excellent and seasonal creepy tale of the end of mankind.
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A long string of tortured adjectives. By request of the author
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A dialogue between Signor Ploppo, a man of parts, and Ambrose, a cunning and curd-hungry member of the avian family.
Read by Walter O’Hara (Signor Ploppo) and Garrett O’Hara (Ambrose)
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A cautionary tale of a duck, a toaster, and buttered bagels.
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One Second Away.. by John L. French, Read by Walter O’Hara http://misternizz.podbean.com/ (Airy Persiflage) http://misternizz.wordpress.com (Third Point of Singularity)
In One Second Away, the protagonist wrestles with the ethical dimensions of time travel and redemption, and arrives at a surprising, paradoxical conclusion.
"One Second Away" first appeared in Startling Stories Winter 2010, published by Wildcat Books. Their website is http://www.wildcatbooks.net/. John L. French is a crime scene supervisor with the Baltimore Police Department Crime Laboratory. As a writer of crime, pulp and horror fiction his stories have appeared in Hardboiled, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, THE DEAD WALK, FLESH AND IRON and other anthologies. He was the consulting editor for Chelsea House’s CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS series for young adults. His latest book is HERE THERE BE MONSTERS, A Bianca Jones Collection. He is the editor of BAD COP, NO DONUT, Tales of Police Behaving Badly. All of John’s books are available on Amazon.com or direct from him (signed/inscribed copies) by emailing him at jfrenchfam@aol.com
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Life in the world the Robots made.
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The correspondence between John and Abigal Adams is astonishing for its length and historical value. They wrote to each other constantly during their long periods of separation and one can see an almost daily tide of events from their courtship in 1762 to the Presidency. Here I attempt to do an occasional read from the historical archive with the assistance of Julie Bellam.