S2:E6 My Comic Debut - Linda Herskovic Other People's Flowers podcast

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S2:E9 The Hefner Project - Melodie Corrigall15:30

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Melodie Corrigall is an eclectic Canadian writer whose work has appeared in Foliate Oak, Litro UK, Halfway Down the Stairs, Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, Corner Bar Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, Blue Lake Review, Subtle Fiction, Emerald Bolts and The Write Place at the Write Time (www.melodiecorrigall.com).…

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S2:E8 The Shape of Things at Night - Niall Shepherd12:23

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Niall Shepherd is a young, autistic writer, from Preston, England. He uses his work as a means to express himself, and understand others. He often aims to explore themes of manhood and masculinity, adulthood and memory, family and fear. His work tends to be surrealist, making use of abstract imagery and absurdist humour.…

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S2:E6 My Comic Debut - Linda Herskovic19:15

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Linda Herskovic is a former standup comic, a playwright, an essayist and is currently working on a funny yet touching fictional memoir and two children’s books, both about birds. She is an editor by trade and has appeared in the NY Time Metropolitan Diary section five times. All that and a great personality. This is an excerpt from a larger pie ...…

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S2:E5 Kind and Slow-witted Carpathian Spring - Lazar Trubman20:30

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Lazar Trubman is a college professor (linguistics and philology), who immigrated to the United States from a small town in the former USSR in 1990 after experiencing firsthand the hospitality of the Committee of State Security – KGB in common parlance. He taught languages and European literature at several colleges and universities for nearly t ...…

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S2:E4 To Honor a Hero - Claudia Hinz21:14

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Claudia Hinz graduated from Harvard and received her master’s degree in English from Southern Methodist University. She worked as a broadcast journalist for network affiliates in California, Seattle and Dallas. Her articles, essays, book reviews and fiction have appeared in The Manifest-Station, Brevity, The Boston Globe, International Herald T ...…

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S2:E3 Glimpse - Jamie Leung19:43

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This week we're featuring a short story from Jamie Leung.

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S2:E2 Here at the Esplanade - Irving Greenfield13:35

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Irving Greenfield is a writer. His work has been published in Amarillo Bay, Runaway Parade, Writing For Tomorrow, eFictionMag and the Stone Hobo; and in Prime Mincer, The Note and Cooweescoowee (3X); and in THE STONE CANOE, electronic edition. He is cited in Wikipedia. He and his wife live on Staten Island. He has been a sailor, soldier and col ...…

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S2E1 The Hotel With the Blue Light - David Woods18:48

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David Woods is a writer and award-winning filmmaker, whose first feature film Till Sunset was released in the USA on Blu-Ray in 2013. His second feature Nightlens is in post production. Four of his six short films have played at international film festivals, with @MovieGeek winning the Award of Distinction at Canada Shorts 2016. His published w ...…

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Episode 30 - Weekend in the Suburbs - Mark Tulin14:04

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This week we're featuring a short piece by Mark Tulin, Weekend in theSuburbs. This story was first published in the online journal, TheCabinet of Heed.Mark Tulin is a retired Family Therapist from Philadelphia who now resides in Santa Barbara, California. Mark writes about off-beat topics, humorous characters, and often fictionalizes his childh ...…

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Episode 29 - Disclaimer - Paige Olausen6:22

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This week we're featuring a short piece by Paige Olausen, Disclaimer.Paige Noel is a hobbyist writer and college student. Paige is an environmentalist by training but uses writing as an outlet. The piece is a disclaimer and in a way a love-ish letter. It was a scary moment that tested her trust, a step forward in a relationship.Other People's F ...…

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Episode 28 - Let this Damn Day Break - Stephen McQuiggan14:15

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This week we're featuring a short story by Stephen McGuiggan, Let thisDamn Day Break.Stephen McQuiggan was the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit. His other, lesser known, novels are A Pig’s View Of Heaven and Trip ...…

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Episode 27 - A Penny for 50 Cent's Thoughts - R.J. Fox19:20

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This week we're featuring a non-fiction essay, A Penny for 50 Cent'sThoughts, by Robert Fox.R.J. Fox is the award-winning writer of several short stories, plays, poems, a memoir, and 15 feature length screenplays. Two of his screenplays have been optioned to Hollywood. His first book – a memoir entitled Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Uk ...…

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Episode 26 - A Woman of the Arts - Steve Carr17:07

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This week we're featuring a short story by Steve Carr, called AWoman of the Arts.Steve Carr, who lives in Richmond, Va., began his writing career as a military journalist and has had over 170 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Sand, a collection of his short stories, was pub ...…

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Episode 25 - A Sicilian Tale - Susan P. Blevins9:33

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This week we're featuring a short story by Susan P. Blevins, ASicilian Tale. Susan is reading her own work.Susan P. Blevins was born in England, lived 26 years in Italy, and hasnow resided in the USA for the past 25 years, first in Taos, NM, andcurrently in Houston, TX. While living in Rome she had a weekly columnin an international, English-la ...…

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Episode 24 - The Squall - Michael Anthony22:22

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This week we're featuring a short story by Michael Anthony.Michael Anthony is a writer and artist living in New Jersey. He has published fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photographs in literary journals and commercial magazines. Most recently these include The Furious Gazelle, the Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, and The Regal Fox. The Am ...…

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Episode 23 - Jenean McBrearty27:42

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This week we're featuring a short story by Jenean McBrearty.Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology. Her fiction, poetry, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred print and on-line journals. She won the Eastern Kentucky English Department Award for Graduate Creative ...…

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Episode 22 - Country Man - Terry Barr7:40

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This week we're featuring a non-fiction essay by Terry Barr.Terry Barr is the author of Don't Date Baptists and Other Warnings from My Alabama Mother (Third Lung Press), We Might As Well Eat: How to Survive Tornadoes, Alabama Football, and Your Southern Family (TLP). His work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, storySouth, Wraparound South, ...…

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Episode 21 - Twenty Good Years - Pete Stavros16:14

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This week we're featuring a short story by Pete Stavros, called TwentyGood Years. Twenty Good Years is due to be published in Thoughtful Dog (https://www.thoughtfuldogmag.com/).Peter J. Stavros is a writer in Louisville, Kentucky. His work hasappeared in The Saturday Evening Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, TheEast Bay Review, Hypertext Magazin ...…

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Episode 20 - Jeffery Berg - Poetry9:01

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This week we're featuring poetry by Jeffery Berg.Jeffery Berg's poems have appeared in Impossible Archetype, El BalazoPress, glitterMOB, the Leveler, Court Green, Rove, Map Literary,Assaracus and Harpur Palate, and No, Dear. A Virginia Center of theCreative Arts fellow, Jeffery lives in Jersey City and blogs atjdbrecords.Other People's Flowers ...…

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Episode 19 - Christopher Woods - Man with a White Cane8:35

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This week we're featuring a short story by Christopher Woods, Man witha White Cane.Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. He has published a novel, THE DREAM PATCH, a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. His work has appeared in THE SO ...…

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Episode 18 - Robert Beveridge - Poetry5:40

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This week we're featuring a selection of poetry by Robert Beveridge.Robert Beveridge makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writespoetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in The Nixes MateReview, Violet Rising, and The Road Less Travelled, among others.Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and rep ...…

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Episode 17 - JJ Steinfeld - Poetry8:35

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This week we're featuring a selection of poetry byt J.J. Steinfeld.Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives onPrince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’sarrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has publishedeighteen books, including Would You Hide Me? (Stories, GaspereauPress, 2003), ...…

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Episode 16 - Ted DeMarsh - Sweet Run11:11

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This week we're featuring a story by Ted DeMarsh, Sweet Run. It'sabout a young girl's visit to the annual market fair and a young boyshe meets there.Edward Michael DeMarsh usually works in script form for TV and Film,though he has enjoyed writing shorter work in prose and has beenpublished by, ONSpec, London Business Magazine and Postcard ficti ...…

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Episode 15 - Robert Okaji and Veronica Fitzhugh Poetry3:59

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This week we're featuring work by two poets: Veronica Fitzhugh andRobert Okaji.Robert Okaji lives in Texas with his wife, two dogs and somebooks. The author of five chapbooks, his work has appeared in suchpublications as Clade Song, Vox Populi, Boston Review, The HighWindow, MockingHeart Review and Main Street Rag.Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh earn ...…

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Gale Acuff - Naked Truth - Episode 1414:23

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This week's episode is a collection of poetry by Gale Acuff, titledNaked Truth. It's a comic, moving story of a young boy and hisobsession with his scripture teacher.Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, McNeese Review,Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Poem, Adirondack Review, Weber: TheContemporary West, Maryland Poetry Review, Florida R ...…

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Patrcia Kenet Stories - Episode 1330:20

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This week's episode features a collection of stories by Patricia LawlerKenet.Patricia Lawler Kenet is a journalist, semi-retired lawyer andentrepreneur. Her work has appeared in Slate.com, The Fiction Pool andMutha Magazine.Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based l ...…

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Conversations with My Mother - Sile Mannion19:58

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This week's episode features a collection of stories and poems by SiléMannion, Conversations with my Mother.Silé is an Irish writer living in New Zealand. When she can write, shewrites. When she can't, she reads. On occasion, she plays the ukulele.Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're t ...…

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Toms Tom - Thomas Healy - Episode 1120:33

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This week's episode features a short story, Toms-Tom, by Thomas Healy, about a man coming to terms with his cousin's death and what it means to face life without himT.R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and his stories have appeared in such publications as Crux, Hawaii Review, Scrutiny, and Welter.Other People's Flowers is the ...…

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Early Morning Fog - Kate Lunn-Pigula12:27

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This week's episode features a short story, Early Morning Fog, by Kate Lunn-Pigula. It's about a woman coming to terms with the aftermath of a a breakup and its effects on her life.Kate Linn-Pigular has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham and has previously been published in Bunbury Magazine, Corvus Review, For Books’ Sa ...…

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Short Fiction - Marc Nash14:24

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This week's episode feature a selection of short pieces by Marc Nash.Marc Nash has published five collections of Flash Fiction and his fifth novel will be published by Dead Ink Books early 2018. He has also been published by Akashic Books, Culture Matters, The Good Men project, London Literary Project Spontaneity, Hypnopomp and the Rough Guide ...…

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War Hero - David Calladine23:17

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This week's episode features a short story by David Calladine about a young man attending the funeral for a grandfather he didn't know.David Calladine is a former software engineer and now writer and freelance journalist. He lives and works in the Dublin area.Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and report ...…

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Those Left Behind - Jonathan D'Arcy25:06

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This week's episode features a short story by Jonathan D'Arcy about a Classics teacher who gets left behind by society while trying to follow him dreams. He finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and lies that leaves him questioning many of his life choices.Jonathan D'Arcy is an Irish writer living in the North East of England. He's been te ...…

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We Don't Do Catholics Here - Jemma Prandial24:29

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This week's story comes from Jemma Prandial, We Don't Do Catholics Here. It's about a non-religious mission in Africa and how the volunteers there start to question their atheism when an Islamist insurgency starts to run through the country.Jemma is a humanist and novelist living in Kenya. She has been writing under various pseudonyms for many ...…

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Pity Friends - David Calladine27:05

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This week we feature a story by David Calladine, Pity Friends, about a man visiting some of his artist friends who've retired from the bustle of city life to go and live a life of art and relative poverty in Ireland.David Calladine is a former software engineer and now writer and freelance journalist. He lives and works in the Dublin area.Other ...…

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Courting - Robert Davies25:24

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This week we feature a story by Robert Davies about the perils of online dating. It's a comic short story about a man who's first experience in the world of online dating goes horribly wrong.Robert Davies is a standup comic and writer living in London. His work has been featured in Granta, Paris Lit Up and The Cadaverine. He often writes under ...…

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Inscription - Dorothy Piers31:58

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This week we feature a story by Dorothy Piers, Inscription. It's about someone who finds an inscription in the front of a book by W. Somerset Maugham and imagines who would throw away a book with an inscription in it and for what reason.Dorothy is a writer and illustrator living in North London. Other than her cats, writing is her great passion ...…

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Allemande Grave - Daniel Richards26:01

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This episode features a story, Allemande Grave, by Daniel Richards. A nightwatchman in a factory hears some mysterious music and goes to investigate.Daniel Richards is a writer and artist living in Manchester in the UK. His work explores the effects of urban environments on people and the ways in which our lives are twisted by increasingly surr ...…

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Just Once In The Moonlight - Ayunda Dlamini12:38

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This episode we feature a story by Ayunda Dlamini about a failed romance in Africa. Ayunda is a novelist and writer who moved to the UK from Swaziland in 2010, and has been writing on a number of topics. His main interested include post-colonial literature and the world's changing relationship with Africa.If you'd like to have your work feature ...…

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