As a winner of multiple awards for his writing, Frank Belknap Long enjoyed a much lauded career across seven decades and a wide array of genres. This audiobook is a collection that celebrates his contributions to the realm of Science Fiction in 17 stories from publications between 1929 and 1956. The...
Welcome to Eating Van Gogh and Other Stories—the best of Season 2 of the Fiction on the Web audiobook series.
This very special collection features 22 short stories lovingly curated by Charlie Fish, the owner of the world's longest running short story publication website: Fiction On The Web. Come...
Jill Mariner’s life as a London debutante is perfect: she has money, friends, and is engaged to a handsome Member of Parliament. But it all comes crashing down when her unreliable uncle squanders her fortune. Then there is the incident of plucky Jill hitting a man with a stick while he was attacking...
Nicholas Herman was born around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. As a young man, he was injured as a soldier in the Thirty Years War, sustaining a near-fatal injury which left him in chronic pain and crippled for the rest of his life. After some time as a civil servant, he entered a n...
“Probably the most dramatic landscape on earth."
Amelia B. Edwards first heard about the Dolomites in 1853, through sketches brought back to England from Italy. On 27 June 1872, she embarked on a trip through the mountains with her friend Lucy Renshaw.
At the time of Edwards’s visit, the Dolomit...
Roy Bean is one of the immortals of the Old West, a rough-and-ready old timer once celebrated from San Antonio to Shanghai. He came to Texas in 1882 and had his town named after a romantic crush (a British socialite he never met). When he hung up his shingle as a justice of the peace and notary publ...
When a witch mistakes a prince for a girl, a kingdom ignites.
Prince Anryn of Ammar has spent his life striving to please his father, the legendary Lightning King. He studies, fences, burns witches at the stake. But when assassins strike, he is left wounded and alone in the mountains, wondering if...
Lovers of classical fiction will enjoy viewing life through the lens of Jane Ward as she grapples with the meaning of love in this 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Generational pressures are on full display over the course of four decades, as we see her struggle with her upbringing by Victorian...
In this tale of friendship and determination, Juniper and her penguin pal, Martin, enter an ice cream showdown, where the stakes and the scoops are sky-high!
This delightfully witty 1920s novel sees four dissatisfied London women escape rainy life for a sunny Italian castle, finding personal rejuvenation. The seemingly timid Lotty Wilkins recruits pious Rose Arbuthnot, socially exhausted Lady Caroline Dester, and stuffy spinster Mrs. Fisher to share an a...
Emil Tischbein's adventure begins when he is traveling by train from the small town of Neustadt to visit his grandmother in Berlin. His hardworking mother has given him 140 marks in an envelope which is securely fastened with a pin to his inside pocket. Unfortunately for him, he's sharing a railway...
The Odyssey has survived nearly three thousand years because it speaks to a simple, powerful truth: sometimes the hardest battle is not the war abroad, but the long, uncertain journey back home.
In this modern prose retelling, Homer's epic is presented as a continuous story rather than as verse. T...
