Nothing on the Other Side

There is something utterly fascinating about doors, be they serving as entrances to spaceships or covers of old, dusty wardrobes.  Paradigmsearch explores the fun plot device offered by the humble door- along with much, much more- in this excellent Hub! For those who like listening to stories as much as they like reading them, here’s…

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Why the Zebra Has Stripes

Creation stories, ‘why’ stories, and origins stories are great fun, which is most likely why Truckstop Sally created a series of them on HubPages. This week, we’re featuring a particularly popular edition of her ‘why’ series – Why the Zebra Has Stripes.  This short, fun, playful, and poignant story is sure to entertain. Big thanks…

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Emerald Wells Cafe 13, Speakeasy Night

The most popular fiction series on HubPages right now is the Emerald Wells Cafe series by mckbirdbks. Each installment of the series revolves around another day at the Emerald Wells Cafe- sometimes an evening, too. For this podcast, mckbirdbks was kind enough to share one of the most popular installments of the series: Emerald Wells Cafe…

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The Proposals

This week’s Fascinating Fiction podcast features another Western short story by WillStarr: Western Short Story – The Proposals It’s a delightful Hub, and if you don’t have time to listen to this podcast, be sure to read the original (or do both).  There’s a delightful twist at the end. Reading this particular story is the always…

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Enemy Hearts

Rarely do I read things online that prompt me to make audible reactions, when something I’m reading does cause me to make noise, said noise is typically laughter. Enemy Hearts by Taressa Klays is one of the very unusual Hubs out our site that has made me actually yell out in alarm- in a good…

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The Scent of Evil

In this installment of the Fascinating Fiction podcast, I am happy to present a short but very good story written by WillStarr: The Scent of Evil. This is the first Fascinating Fiction episode with a short story narrated by another Hubber.  Morten Rand (aka Website Examiner on HubPages) was generous enough to record his reading of…

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