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Bungling Bearded Burglars from Broadstone Beach
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is Wilson Arz. When my kids were small, I used to play a bedtime game with them. They would tell me a letter, and I would make up a nonsense song...
Stingaree Gulch --- A Ring-Tailed Roaring Good Time
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stingaree GulchA Ring-Tailed Roaring Good TimeBy J. J. Mounts-MillerFleeing a rigged boxing match and a deadly mob ultimatum, legendary promoter Tex R...
Battery Man --- Song by Meghan Moxley
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My Dad delivered batteries all over hilly Seattle. Drove a truck. Lead-acid batteries. Batteries for cars. Trucks. Fishing Boats. Picked up old ones. ...
Ending our podcast series
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Friends and Devoted Listeners –Appaloosa Radio Online is ending its podcast series effective January 15, 2026, shifting our focus to our VIMEO and Y...
a little monkey magic - act one
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio OffersA new musical storyA Little Monkey MagicAct One A whimsical musical journey to the early days of cartoon animation, featuring J...
2025 Spring Songfest
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 Spring SongfestThis is a collection of songs from several stories that we have recently shared on Appaloosa Radio. Enjoy the 2025 Spring Songfest...
25 is too slow
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
25 is too slowBy Eureka Wallace Sign says 25,that's a snail in disguise. I'm a rocket on wheels, not a cloud in my skies. Got dreams in ...
Regarding a Murder - Part 4
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regarding a MurderPart 4 of 4By Stan MorganPrivate InvestigatorA True Story A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him dire...
Regarding a Murder - Part 3
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regarding a MurderPart 3 of 4By Stan MorganPrivate InvestigatorA True Story A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him dire...
Regarding a Murder - Part 2
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regarding a MurderPart 2 of 4By Stan MorganPrivate InvestigatorA True Story A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him dire...
Regarding a Murder - Part 1
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regarding a MurderBy Stan MorganPrivate InvestigatorA True Story A private investigator revisits an old murder, one that impacted him directly when h...
Wine of Frogs
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science FictionThe Wine of Frogs by Anthony Marcolongo Indefinite longevity. Lengthening human life spans to millennia instead of decades. The firm h...
Tattoo
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tattoo An original story for Appaloosa Radio Last December before Christmas he placed third in the Regional Finals for the Mr. Perfect Body competit...
Edge Clinging
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Edge ClingingFor Appaloosa RadioAs we age, we lose both our mobility and our self-confidence, and in losing our self-confidence, we stick very close t...
Alligator - a Nell Trustmon story
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio Online offersAlligator A story from Nell Trustmon’s Magazine “Broken Tree Tales” In rural mining communities like Boyce, Color...
Changing Times - Should we go?
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio presents an original musical story Surprise Valley The hippie resort of perpetual happiness Here is another great song from Act 2 o...
Middle-aged Dreamer
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peace and perpetual greetings! Featuring new tie-dye songs in the hip style of the early 1970s.Appaloosa Radio presents an original musical story Sur...
The Road of Life Has Many Detours
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Road of Life Has Many Detours A very personal story by Gisela Butler The pick-up truck came over the center divider and became airborne. I could s...
Interactive Collaborative Fiction -- Become a Story Pilot
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you love Interactive Collaborative Fiction?Interactive Collaborative Fiction is the art of jointly shaping a narrative through collective storytell...
The Devil is in the Details --- The Art of Deception
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Devil is in the Details --- The Art of Deception An original story byThomas Hessler It really wasn’t a wild prank. Nobody got hurt, some were e...
A Most Despicable Brute
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most Despicable BruteAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series“If Noble Son Dusko Rarrko, the Second Son of...
On the Morning Commuter Bus - Chapter 3
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the Morning Commuter BusAn original storyFor Appaloosa Radio CHAPTER 3Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and...
On the Morning Commuter Bus - Chapter 2
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the Morning Commuter BusAn original storyFor Appaloosa Radio CHAPTER 2Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and...
On the Morning Commuter Bus - Chapter 1
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the Morning Commuter BusAn original storyFor Appaloosa RadioCHAPTER 1 Many contemporary hi-tech employees ride express commuter buses daily to and...
Travelling
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TravellingbyPamela Hummel-Morgan This week we visited some friends in Monterey. They had recently returned from a seven-week trip driving across Euro...
Tautologies
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TautologiesBy J. J. Mounts-MillerFor Appaloosa RadioOctober 2024 I have been thinking a lot about something I read in a magazine. I had read: “Brai...
Four Micro Stories
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are four micro-stories that I worked up for the Summer 2024 Micro-Write Challenge. All are extremely short, ranging from 116 to 465 words.They ar...
Skirts Swayin’ -- Act 1
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersAn original musical storySkirts Swayin’ Celebrating the infectious rhythms of Western swing music It happened in Fort Worth,...
Skirts Swayin’ -- Act 3
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersAn original musical storySkirts Swayin’ Celebrating the infectious rhythms of Western swing music It happened in Fort Worth,...
Skirts Swayin’ -- Act 2
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersAn original musical storySkirts Swayin’Celebrating the infectious rhythms of Western swing music It happened in Fort Worth, T...
Cherry Blossoms at Night
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cherry Blossoms at Nighta biological warfare mystery thrillerAppaloosa Radio is pleased to offer a dramatization of the first chapter of Brandon Micha...
Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 10
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 10 On Making Bad Choices An itinerant musician gets off the Sacramento light ...
Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 9
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 9 Lorraine An itinerant musician gets off the Sacramento light rail train and...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 8
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 8Tearing it into Little Pieces An itinerant musician gets off the light rail t...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 7 Radio Surfing
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 7 Radio SurfingAn itinerant musician gets off the light rail train and moves h...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 6
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 6rode that bike like a maniac "Once we were in the rustic cabin, I began....
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -Chapter 5
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 5My Place is at the End of the Road"In the morning in my hotel room, I l...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 4
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 4Not on a CruiseAnyone in his right mind would want a five-day cruise sipping M...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -- Chapter 3
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 3 Winds of the Roaring PlainsStan, my private investigator friend, finally f...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 2
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 2 News Story Two days later, I was reading a local newspaper when a small new...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 1
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEEAn original story from Appaloosa RadioChapter 1 The Bicycle Guy An itinerant musician gets off the light rail train and mov...
Ghosts of the Artic
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The note was all too brief. It had been placed where they believed it would be readily found, under the cairn marking the exploration of the region by...
My True Love is a Sonnet
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My True Love is a SonnetA Story and a Song Taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and m...
Just the Facts
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just the Facts“He had done this hundreds of times while working on hundreds of cases. The grizzled, veteran, police detective sergeant checked his n...
A Love Letter - Berlin - January 1945
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Love LetterBerlinJanuary 1945 This letter was never mailed. It was found in 2011 neatly folded inside a family Bible. Ingrid’s father had been th...
Escape! - Part 4 --- Surrender and Return
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Escape!A work of fiction based on a true storyPart 4 --- Surrender and Return Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the ...
Escape - part 3 - A Bluff
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Escape!A work of fiction based on a true storyPart 3 --- A Bluff Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among ...
Escape! - part 2 - Time to Go
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Escape!A work of fiction based on a true storyPart 2 --- Time to Go Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Amo...
The Life of an Ice Cream Scooper
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Abrams gives us a short story about one of her favorite kitchen utensils, an older ice cream scooper with a yellow, fluted handle.
Gladys Patricia Symington
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gladys Patricia Symington by Jeannie Turner originally published in From a Writer’s Finger to a Butterfly’s WingAn anthology by the Sacramento ...
Escape! Part 1
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Escape!A work of fiction based on a true storyPart 1 Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were th...
The Pond
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three times a week, Owen Namura drove his mother from her mobile home to the pond in the park. He would unload her walker and then assist her to walk ...
Club Crazy
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Club Crazy by Bryson Kilmer Presented in collaboration with the Sacramento Suburban Writers.Humor.Bryson Kilmer tells about the zany meeting of one...
Moral Obligations
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moral Obligationsa 191-second audio storyfrom Appaloosa Radio
The Lies of a Salesman
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Lies of a SalesmenByMarkus PlaceA One-hundred-and-91-Second Story On Appaloosa Radio A retired super-salesman ponders the role of lying and fal...
Bode and Syvilla
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dying Friends, Syvilla and BodeA 191 second storyFrom Appaloosa RadioMy best friend from college, Scott, now lives in Southern Oregon in the Illinois ...
My Father Beat Me
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My Father Beat MeA 91-second StoryCreated for Appaloosa Radio From a ---Private Journal EntryJune 17, 1973 My father beat me. Not just the occasiona...
Don’t Touch Anything!
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t Touch Anything! By Jody Carnes-HartFor Appaloosa Radio I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large...
EVE AND PETRO – By Edith M. Patch
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eve and PetroRocky Mountain SwallowsBy Edith M. Patch By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She ...
Untitled Episode
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t Touch Anything! By Jody Carnes-HartFor Appaloosa Radio I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large...
Biscuits and Gravy
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Biscuits and GravyAn original audio storyWritten for Appaloosa RadioIt was Wednesday morning and that always meant a massive plate of biscuits and gra...
Where Did the Rabbits Go?
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where did the rabbits go? A 91-Second StoryWritten for Appaloosa RadioIn the late 1940s, a four-year-old lives near his grandparents in an old lumber...
Hummingbirds
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HummingbirdsA 91-second audio storyWritten forAppaloosa Radio Have you ever thought about a (non-human) species adapting to a new technology?
Furious
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersAn original audio storyBy D. R. Nichols Furious"You hate him, you really do."
Bear or Steer – Steer or Bear
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bear or Steer –Steer or BearA 91-secon storyWritten for Appaloosa RadioHiking can be dangerous!
THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIEBy Edith M. Patch By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She was the premie...
Dog, a Man, and a Cessna
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dog, a Man, and a CessnaA 91-second Storyfrom Appaloosa Radio
Waring Windows
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Waring Windowsby Paul LawrenceA 91-second Story
My Best Friend Wrote a Book
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My Best Friend Wrote a Bookby Allen S. GrahamA 91-Second Storyfrom Appaloosa Radio
Golf
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GolfA 91-seond StoryWritten for Appaloosa Radioby Paul Lawrence
The New Kid
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New KidA 91-second storyWritten For Appaloosa Radio
Not My Kids
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NOT MY KIDSBy Gloria de la Rossaa 90-second story
The Worst Day
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Worst DayBy McNeil AimmesAn extremely short story
Re-wind
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
RewindBy Dianne PollarinoA 90-second Story
Shorty
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio is now webcasting extremely short fiction stories, i.e., stories running about 90 seconds long.
The Ride
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio PresentsAn original Audio StoryThe Ride In June 1979, two brothers drive an electrical contractor’s work truck up to the Mojave Des...
A Most Decrepit Ferry and the Magic of Chiku Shan
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Most Decrepit Ferry and the Magic of Chiku Shan As re-told in Rarrko’s Celebration SpeechAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing ...
Sauced
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SaucedAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series “Luscious Lell by the ever-lovely Lake . . . . Satisfying...
The Beast
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
City of 4000 SpiesThe BeastDusko Rarrko, the second son of the Nineteenth Great Nobleman of Sassko, was probably Lell’s most recognizable spy. He wa...
Posited Murder
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Posited MurderAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series ~~~Rarrko:“Thank you PNB7Q for locating these for m...
Information is Expensive
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio OffersAn original audio drama From the City of 4,000 Spies Series Information is ExpensivePNB7Q knew Noble Son Dusko Rarrko from man...
Trip Home
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trip HomeAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series~~~On a on a very hush-hush assignment of an unspecified nat...
Welcome to Season Three
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season Three of Appaloosa Radio!This season will focus on one continuing series of audio stories. We offer the City of 4000 Spies science f...
Big Chief - Part 9 - Conclusion
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies SeriesPart 9Conclusion In addition to his very public royal dutie...
Big Chief - Part 8
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko Rarrko,...
Big Chief - Part 7
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko Rarrko,...
Big Chief - Part 6
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 6In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko R...
Big Chief - Part 5
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 5In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko R...
Big Chief - Part 4
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 4In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko ...
Big Chief - Part 3
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 3In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko R...
Big Chief - Part 2
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 2In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko R...
Big Chief - Part 1
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big ChiefAn Original Story by Appaloosa RadioFrom the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Part 1In addition to his very public royal duties, Dusko R...
Contemplating Evil
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersContemplating EvilAn audio storywhich includes original, period-specific musicperformed byThe Howlin’ Wolf,Vernon Dalhart,And ...
Alligator
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Appaloosa Radio offersAlligator A Nell Trustmon Story In rural mining communities like Boyce, Colorado, the arrival of the “Alligator Man” creat...
Seven Witches
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cle Curbo’s fable . . .“Virginia, you are the youngest and most wise of your siblings, so I will tell you about your mother's family. Maybe y...
Roomies
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roomies Original College Humor Going away to college and residing in a dorm is an opportunity to learn to live with differences. Roommates can learn...
The General Strike
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The General StrikeFeaturing O.ss.K.ar 44-070-256, Lauren’s personal EeKK//.Imagine a time (in the not-too-distant future) when EeKK//s do all the wo...
It is Just Baseball
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is Just BaseballAn Appaloosa Radio Original Story When Beck was in sixth and seventh grade, he played Little League baseball for the Mayfield Pira...
The Gatekeeper
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The GatekeeperAn Appaloosa Radio Original Story1958He graduated from Florida State University where he had majored in being a fraternity brother. Afte...
Meeting Celeste
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meeting CelesteAn Appaloosa Radio Original Story When things were going well, when the computer code poured itself freely into its allocated slots, w...