Prose

211: Sonbol (The Full Novella)

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, join the Primrose 33 family as we dive back into the full  novella Sonbol. Let's get ready for some sci-fi adventure! *** Purchase Sonb...

Episode 210: "Black on Brown" and "Holding the D Train"

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet a lovely, powerful empath and put forth a small act of kindness into the world of the New York City subway system. *** Purchase Sonb...

Episode 209: "Them"

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, hear a war story. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon...

Episode 208: "Slim Worms on Sale Now!" and "Holidaymaker"

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, get a second chance at youth and vitality if you'll swallow a space worm and go on a different sort of holiday.  *** Purchase Sonbol e...

Episode 207: "Where You Come From" and "Someplace, Somewhere"

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, define home and try to remember where you're going and why you're here.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple P...

Episode 206: "The Forgetting" and "The Language of the Lesser"

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, both stories have a shared theme of memory.  So, let's all ponder what it means to remember and what it costs to forget, shall we? *** Pu...

Episode 205: "Charred" and "The Whimper"

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, let's take another foray into the world of Ash and Bone with Rowan pen Warren to see his side of the story and come visit the post-apocalyp...

St. Patrick's Dayisode 2024

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Éirinn go Brách *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe ...

Episode 204: "Before The Fall" And "The Lovers Come To Town: A Tale Of Πέρσης And Ἀστερία"

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, let's take a foray into the world of Ash and Bone with Mynah and see what happens when a Greek city does not pay tribute to a titan of ...

Episode 203: "Borrow My Bliss" and "The Neon Halo"

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, speculate about the world of tomorrow with a galactic offer that is BOUND to make anyone happy and a recounting of the power of democracy a...

Valentines Dayisode 2024: Seven Poems

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to the Prose Valentine's Day special 2024. For this holiday, we'll be diverting from Prose's, well, prose and tackling seven, count ...

Episode 202: "Mus" and "All the Lights in Vegas"

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, become a hardened exterminator and bask in the vampiric glow of the lights of Las Vegas. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscr...

Episode 201: "Getting Ahead" and "The Food"

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we return to our roots in flash fiction with a reevaluation of success and a chef's plight in Limbo.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or pap...

Episode 200: "That Accent" and "The Wedding-Knell" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week feel the drift of language through isolation and attend a macabre wedding. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple ...

New Year's Dayisode 2024: "Yel•Low, or One Hundred Indecisions"

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This New Year's Day 2024, contemplate indecision and cowardice.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe...

New Year's Eveisode 2023/24

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paper...

Christmas Dayisode 2024: Thumbnail History on Twelfth Night

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Christmas Day special! What are those Twelve Days of Christmas about?  Ever consider having a drunken rager to top off your Christmas ...

Christmas Eveisode 2024: The Christmas Story according to Luke

24 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This Christmas Eve, come enjoy the Great Mystery of Christmas from the Gospel according to Luke, our annual tradition here at Prose.  *** Purchase ...

Episode 199: "The Boy"

24 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, take a second look at the oft vilified Herod the Great, of Biblical fame/infamy.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe vi...

Episode 198: "Grafting Street" Parts I and II

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet a desperate man, one of many visitors of the infamous Grafting Street. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple...

Episode 197: "Simon Peter and the Roof" and "Reverend Tommy"

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet a God-fearing Southern boy who people say is slow and who just can't get a break and go from dangerous debauchery king to pious preach...

Thanksgivingisode: "The Night Before Thanksgiving"

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this Thanksgiving special, consider how much you might mean to someone in "The Night Before Thanksgiving" by Sarah Orne Jewett.  *** Purchase ...

Episode 196: "How Green the Grass" and "New Traditions"

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, use ancient techniques to breach the new science of the multiverse and discover what happens when old traditions give way to new. *** Purc...

A November Special: "Memories of Mississippi in the Fall" by Henry I. Magee

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this day special to my family, reminisce on childhood memories in the Mississippi back country.    *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Su...

Halloweenisode 2023: HP Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter" and "Lebiri Meus Volume II"

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This Halloween, explore an ancient swamp full of putrid secrets and go back to that future man's journal once again to see how we humans just never ch...

Episode 195: "Harvest Time" and "The Chaddick"

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, live the bucolic dream in the crab orchards and writhe through a city as a ghastly being seduces the masses. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book ...

Episode 194: "In the Season of Leaves" and "In the Season of Sticks"

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, fear the living trees as much as the dead and beware the sticks reaching out from the dark. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Sub...

Episode 193: "The Fog in the All Hallows Kingdom" and "Lebiri Meus Volume I"

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, find yourself in an autumn kingdom as a savior and peek in on a future man's look into the boredom and intimacies of the past *** Purchase...

Episode 192: "Afloat" and "D.O.A."

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, pray for salvation from a ruined world and honor the nameless dead. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcast...

Episode 191: "Come Again Soon" and "Split"

03 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, consider some time traveling on your time off, and become a bit confused along with some poor schmuck just trying to make a coffee run. *...

Episode 190: "Paragon of Animals" and "Geodetic North"

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, revisit an intrepid space explorer from the short story "Just Earth," and try again to find the truest of truth norths. *** Purchase Son...

Episode 189: "A Quick Steam" and "The Omega"

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, practice heroism in the steam room of a gym, and bear witness to the execution of a witch. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Sub...

Episode 188: "Notes from Woolverton Mountain Reunion, May 8, 2011" and "Summus Optimium"

23 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, go find the truth about a devil of a man protecting his pretty daughters on an Arkansas mountain and experience a world where super powers ...

Episode 187: "We are a Spasm of Civilization" by Elizabaeth Peterson and "Experience the Culture"

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we focus on the elevance of perspective and reality, with one story looking at the power of viewpoint and the other asking whether adventur...

Episode 186: "Lodestar" and "Back to Before" by James Harrington

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, see what happens when magic and negative emotions mix and delve into the power of memory, reminiscing, and our ability to reach back but no...

Episode 185: Prologue from "From Sea to Shining Sea" by Cliff Heney

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, have your life upended by a little bit of magic.    *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe ...

Episode 184: "Any Given Sunday" and "So, They Stopped"

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, revisit a Southern Baptist church in the South on a Sunday and interact with an alien race. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Sub...

Episode 183: "Balanced" and "Glorious, Glorious, Delusion" by Elizabeth Peterson

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, let's experience together the horrid honesty of online dating and commune with an artificial intelligence about its unattainable desire to ...

Episode 182: "Lady Firehair" and "A Letter to NASA, or Dreams Deferred"

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, observe a goddess of love bless a tortured half-dragon and witness a dream fall from the stars. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback....

Episode 181: "Silence" and Jessica Yates's "Leaving"

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week delve into two sides of a similar experience, seeking to understand the horrific power of silence and feeling the overwhelming gravity of ...

Episode 180: Brandon Nolan's "Red Saint"

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet an assassin in a brothel and revel in her scars. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe ...

Episode 179: "The Kingdom" and HP Lovecraft's "Dagon."

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, defend a kingdom of the dead in the high places of the world and try your best not to see a...a thing, particularly "when the moon is gi...

Episode 178: "What's That Wandering in My Woods?: Helpful Hints Distinguishing Habits, Habitat, and Hostility in the North American Hidebehind" and "Dybbuks (דיבוק מרוח רעה ) and You: A Practical How-To Guide."

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, get some advice on how to avoid that dark being lurking behind and navigate away from any would-be faux paus in the face of a haunting. ***...

Episode 177: "Around"

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, get a touch dark and existential while on a run. *** Everett Byram: Support for the Family of Everett Byram "Our beloved Everett left us o...

Valentines Dayisode 2023: "Graduated Realization"

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, think of those times you turned left instead of turning right and changed your life. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe ...

Episode 176: "2068" and "Goodnight,Sleep Tight"

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, peer and ponder into the quasi-distant future and relive listening to a bedtime story as an adult. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperba...

Episode 175: "The 25th Hour" and "Bringing Honor"

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, indulge in (or endure?) an extra hour every day when the rest of the world stops and experience an orchid turn into a killer. *** Purchase...

Episode 174: "Elevator Music" and "Clean Dirt"

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, cling to the music in your life (and past glories) and learn a little bit about getting clean with dirt.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book o...

New Year's Eveisode 2022/23

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paper...

Episode 173: "Riding Along" and "An Exhalation of Angels"

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, seek connection on a train and breathe with the cherubim.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Sub...

Christmas Eveisode 2022: The Christmas Story

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Christmas Eve, come enjoy the Great Mystery of Christmas from the Gospel according to Luke, our annual tradition here at Prose.  *** Purchase ...

Christmas Eveisode 2022: A Visit from St. Nicholas

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Come join in the fun of a vist from jolly old St. Nicholas.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via...

Episode 172: "To Spite My Face, or 祸害"

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, go to extreme lengths to escape a dystopian state.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe v...

Episode 171: "La Faim" and "Venezia"

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week experience a hunger that harrows the body and soul and reminisce about that almost-was with eyes trained toward Italia. *** "Venice, Unaccom...

Episode 170: "Charlie Played Oboe" and "I Saw a Turtle"

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special tribute show to guest author Henry I. Magee this week, triumph on a woodwind and relax with a shelled friend. *** Purchase Sonbol e-...

Episode 169: "Gateway" and "True Horror"

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, find a taste for flesh and stumble into the worst of all horrors. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts....

Episode 168: "Ms. Obituary", "Under My Skin", and "The Brownie Children."

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, help a dead woman, say a farewell when faced with impending doom, and suffer for your choice in baked goods.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-boo...

Episode 167: "The Poison Well"

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, embrace change and become death and poison. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Go...

Episode 166: "Waking Up" and "Exchange"

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, feel safe with two beloveds and beware who you let tromp around in your garden. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe v...

Episode 165: "Living in the Firmament" and "In the Season of Sticks"

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, live up in the air among the clouds in a tale from Dole-Aishara and look out for sticks grasping out for you from the dark. *** Purcha...

Episode 164: "Folie à Deux ou Plus" and "The Lord is My Light"

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, re-estimate the power of shared delusion and take a long, hard look at King David's murder of Uriah the Hittite.  *** Purchase Sonbol ...

Episode 163: "The Afflicted" and "The Queen of California"

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, see the downside of those superhero accidents and meet a prostitute from Shanghai who becomes a queen. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or p...

Episode 162: "Fading" and "Music Box Nights"

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, try not to fade away into oblivion and experience the carnal turn to horror. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Appl...

Episode 161: "The C Train" and "Just Another"

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, deperately seek connection and eat some energy of another. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subs...

Episode 160: "Nogal" and "Gravediggers"

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, experience fear in South Africa and dig a grave.  *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via...

Episode 159: "The Mendicant King" and "Apple Thief Charlie"

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet a king among beggar, beggar among kings and revisit a thief in the land of Dole-Aishara. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. ...

Episode 158: "Lodestar" and "Hexbag for a Douchebag"

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, experience two breakups being dealt with...with magic. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe...

Episode 157: "To Protect the Innocent" and "Holidaymaker"

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, dabble in innocence and go on a different sort of holiday. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subsc...

Episode 156: "Shopping" and "Bringing up the Ghosts"

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, shop for eternity and raise the dead from beneath the ocean. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. S...

Episode 155: "Even Vixens Ache, or Lessons Learned from the Life of an Enchantress"

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meet a woman with magic in her voice. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play....

Episode 154: "Robin's Egg Blue" and "Okay, My Dream"

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, fear for your life while out for a run and bring the dream world into the waking world. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscri...

Episode 153: "Across the Way" and "Underneath"

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, enjoy a day of prepositions and New York City; indulge your voyeuristic tendencies that land you a new family above the streets, and confro...

St. Patrick's Dayisode 2022

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Éire go Brách.  Please enjoy this year's St. Patrick's Day special.   *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. S...

Episode 152: "The Worst Line," "The Chaddick," and "Freddie"

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, get re-stuck in a line for eternity, revisit a ghastly being, and become immortal through song…while rotting.   *** Purchase Sonbol e...

Episode 151: "On to Mound City"

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, visit a city of the, for the dead.   *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play....

Valentines Dayisode 2022: A Quartet of Poems

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Valentine's Day, enjoy a quartert of poems exploring different manifestations of love. Included: "The Sun Rising" by John Donne, "Recreation" by ...

Episode 150: "You're Gonna Lose the War" and "This Is What It Looks Like (or the Death of the Lovers)" from "What We Cannot Hear" by SA McKenzie

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, see what happens when a White House love story falls apart. *** Purchase Snapshots from this week's guest author SA McKenzie. Purchase ...

Episode 149: "Heavy is the Head" and "Silence, Like Cancer, Grows" from "What We Cannot Hear" by SA McKenzie

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, grapple with a bumpy relationship...that might bring down a presidential administration. *** Purchase Snapshots from this week's guest au...

Episode 148: "Let Me Sleep" and "Little by Little, They've Come for Me"

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, yearn to be unconscious and hear the death throes of a woodland. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. ...

New Year's Eveisode 2021 - Auld Lang Syne

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Prose in our annual reading of "Auld Lang Syne," ringing in the new year together.  ***  

Episode 147: "Toy Box Keep"

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, prepare for war with the man many call Jolly 'Ole St. Nick. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subs...

Christmas Dayisode 2021: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry

25 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Consider who the real Magi are and what gifts are all about with O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi." *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via G...

Christmas Eveisode 2021: The Christmas Story according to Luke

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome once again to my own family's Christmas Eve Tradition that I post every year for Prose - a reading of the Christmas story from the New Testam...

Episode 146: "Distant Points" and "Swipe"

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, bond in the future over the climatic disasters of the past and peruse a dating app. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe v...

Episode 145: "Downward Dog: Why Dog-Faced Men Frequent Your Property" and "Bridget Evangeline Sellars"

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, contemplate how to rid your property of dog-headed men and dismantle a misconception. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscrib...

Thanksgivingisode 2021: "The Night before Thanksgiving"

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For this Thanksgiving special, consider how much you might mean to someone in "The Night Before Thanksgiving" by Sarah Orne Jewett.  *** Subscribe v...

Five Year Anniversary Special

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

November 24, 2016 at 12:31 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, from the forests of northern Massachusetts, I published Episode 0, an "Introduction to Prose." ...

Episode 144: "The Half Man" and "On That June 25th"

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, beware the autumn creatures and take a peek into an intimate day of pain. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple P...

Episode 143: "Count Magnus" Halloween Special

30 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, lose your sanity while trying to write a travel book in Sweden. For the original text to the short story, please go check out "Count Magnu...

Episode 142: "Saints Alive" and "The King of Jerusalem Come to Gotham"

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, have some saints work through you and encounter a ghostly prisoner of fabric.   *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via ...

Episode 141: "The Cant of Hibernia" and "Les Dames Blanches"

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, cling to the magic of your mother tongue and meet some powerful women in white. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via A...

Episode 140: Sonbol

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, join the Primrose 33 family as we dive back into the full  novella Sonbol. Let's get ready for some sci-fi adventure! *** Purchase Sonbo...

Episode 139: The Water Sellers

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, amid the climate apocalypse, make a tough decision, so you can live to see another day.   *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via...

Episode 138: "Suicide King" and "Cain of the New World"

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, play cards with three dangerous women and judge Cain reborn.   *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via P...

Sobol Release!

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An alien invasion is coming. Humanity was given five years to prepare. Robert "Mack" McAlister, an overachieving young man from Tennessee, wants somet...

Episode 137: "Erase the Good" and "Reverberations of Mourning"

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, try to abandon good memories and meet a reluctant prophet lying for God. *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Supp...

Episode 136: "Horror U."

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, be introduced to the funky place known as Notianimoba University, where you'll hunt ghosts and fall in love.  Content Warning: Sexual assa...

Episode 135: "You Can't Fear What You Don't Know" by Claire Parker and "The Blood Circle"

11 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, brave a monster's cave once again to find purpose and feel the loss of purpose and self while being hunted in the streets of a grand city. ...

July 4isode: "The Star-Spangled Banner"

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Come join in on a reading of all four of the verses of Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner." *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe vi...

Episode 134: "All Red" and "Wicked Dreams Abuse"

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, get stuck at the ultimate red light and find horror and violence in a man's dreams. *** Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google...