Spoken Word Inc
It behooves us to introduce our NC brothers and sisters in Spoken Word Inc. They're an audio production house making audiobooks for authors, publishers and everyone else we know. Fiction,...
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Official Apocrypha
Official Apocrypha: or, Sifting Through Static — The Foreword Before. By Ben Tyler Elliott. A Reader's Companion to the new audiobook SIFTING THROUGH STATIC by Ben Tyler Elliott. Coming out February 13th from Talking Book. (sample track below) ________ What...
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Also Coldplay
You are thirteen. You and your friend have a crush on the same boy. He is about two feet tall and sings like a terrible angel. You are about six feet tall and your laugh sounds...
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I CANT REMEMBER THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THE CAT//ARE YOU OR AREN’T YOU SANTA
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THE CAT there is a street by a dunkin donuts that you walk the girls down you take them to the apartment with the hall full of mirrors i cry every time i come if i could just run...
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NEW TALKING BOOK: Somewhere In A Town… by Nina Hart
Somewhere in a Town You Never Knew Existed Somewhere by Nina Hart is a book that speaks directly to society's "elephants in the living room" through kooky hooliganism and satire. Five year-old Bonanza's mother tells her to "keep digging" as...
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Intimacy and The Internet
People were rushing all around Victoria Station as I hurriedly checked for the public wifi that Google had assured me a month ago would exist. I probably put too much trust in Google but it didn’t fail me that...
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Top Ten Resolutions I will Not Be Upholding in 2017
1). LOSE WEIGHT: Oh yeah, let’s start big, shall we? Pun intended, because I hate myself. This is the top resolution for an eating disorder girl gone lazy, I’m thinking, or that’s true for me. This is the year...
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Hobbies Include #5 (Spesh New Year’s Edish)
This is Chelsea Laine Wells reading HOBBIES INCLUDE #5, the very Spesh New Year's Edish, by Brian Alan Ellis Hobbies include... —sexually-identifying as maybe the only sad person in...
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Election Day 1 & 2, everyone at the marathon wore blue
ELECTION DAY i woke up, went to work, & played barista walked home with hands in pockets, crumpled ones ran up the stairs to get high before leaving at the pizza joint, i listened as an old guy explained to me how we could fuck without his wife finding out i kept...
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How To Christmas
Wrap everything up in the same exact wacky Rudolph in a speedo wrapping paper but don’t write anyone’s names on the tag so when somebody looks disappointed when opening a gift from you, you can take the sex doll...
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AQIXMAS
Jingle Bells is on loop in Burger King. And not even the full version but some minute and half hybrid that is all chorus. At first I hardly register the ring ting tingle amidst the pirate chatter...
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The Deranged Artist: Jack Henry Abbott
Welcome to part two in Sean Kilpatrick’s ongoing series on bat-shit crazy artists.
Congested by his rank into a delinquent calf at the altar of the state, Jack Henry Abbott avoided guards who took a liking to his resilience....
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HOBBIES INCLUDE… #4
WITH BONUS AUDIO BY Michael Seymour Blake! Hobbies include... —letting my cat lick the mental illness from my beard. —drunkenly convincing loved ones that Goodfellas is actually mandatory Christmas viewing. —reenacting the scene from the movie Heathers when the big girl wearing the...
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Fort
If you leave Charlotte and are headed to Columbia, SC, you only have two ways to go. The first is I-77, a bone straight blade of highway that cuts through Rock Hill and leaves its tip...
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TALKING BOOK DREAM #1
Talking Book is a modern audiobook house located in the misty mountains of Asheville, NC. We record and publish the works of vital, innovative authors, offer high-caliber audio production services and run an online audio/lit mag called The Talking...
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HOBBIES INCLUDE… #3
WITH AUDIO NARRATED BY BUD SMITH. BONUS! Hobbies include... —ignoring the huge life mistakes I’ve made by obsessing over the tiny editorial mistakes I’ve made. —cancelling plans based on the unreasonable fear my cat will be set on fire if I...
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YOU ARE A SUNFLOWER AND A LIGHTHOUSE
Add permanent ink to gain authorship over your body
because you are terrified that a rainbow is just a problem
in optics, a poem just stanzaic structure, and a cherry blossom,
tinged with the...
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THE ROACH THAT CRAWLED UP MY LEG LIKE A FAT, TAME PETTING ZOO ANIMAL AND NINE OTHER REASONS I QUIT WAITRESSING AT BENNIGAN’S WITHOUT GIVING NOTICE
Read or listen to the audio, narrated by the author herself... 1. The waiter with the enormous aborted fetus head and thin orange hair who picked fries off the plates under the warmer and sunk them into the mayo...
