They returned to Yonville along the river. The summer weather had reduced its flow and left uncovered the river walls and water steps of the gardens along its bank. It ran silently, swift and cold-looking; long fine grasses bent with the current, like masses of loose green hair streaming in its limpid depths. Here and […] Read more
Audiobooks
Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert 2
At the sudden impact of those words, crashing into her mind like a leaden bullet into a silver dish, Emma felt herself shudder; and she raised her head, straining to understand what he had meant by them. They looked at each other in silence, almost wonderstruck, each of them, to see that the other was […] Read more
Making Money in Voice-Overs by Terri Apple
Introduction Welcome to the wonderful, lucrative, challenging, and creative world of voice-overs. If you’re reading this book, you’ve probably listened to voice-overs on television commercials or heard announcers or actors on radio spots and thought to yourself, “I could do that.” Maybe you’ve even looked at some magazine advertisements and tried reading the text of […] Read more
Making Our Democracy Work, A Judge’s View, by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Day after day I see Americans – of every race, religion, nationality, and point of view – trying to resolve their differences in the courtroom. It has not always been so. In earlier times, both here and abroad, individuals and communities settled their differences not in courtrooms under law but on the streets with violence. […] Read more
Marcus Tullius Cicero Address to the Senate
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the […] Read more
Martinsville Football Book
This is a story that must be told. It is the story of a football program that achieved excellence and was ultimately punished for being too good. The competitive nature of our society makes it hard to conceive that a team could be called “too good,” but this actually happened to the Martinsville High School […] Read more
Memory by H.P. Lovecraft
In the valley of Nis the accursed waning moon shines thinly, tearing a path for its light with feeble horns through the lethal foliage of a great upas-tree. And within the depths of the valley, where the light reaches not, move forms not meant to be beheld. Rank is the herbage on each slope, where […] Read more
Men With Blackwater Die By Beryl Markham
There is a feeling of absolute finality about the end of a flight through darkness. The whole scheme of things with which you have lived acutely, during hours of roaring sound in an element altogether detached from the world, ceases abruptly. The plane noses groundward, the wings strain to the firmer cushion of earthbound air, […] Read more
Mirrors (flash fiction story)
I moved in here three weeks ago hoping I’ll grow as a person. However, things didn’t go at all like that. Day, night, it doesn’t matter when, two mirrors high atop a tower that’s ten feet away from my apartment light me up. Their brightness seeps through the window, shades, even cardboard stand, and burns […] Read more
Mom and Dad (a/k/a “What Makes Parents”)
God took the strength of a mountain, the majesty of a tree, the warmth of a summer sun, the calm of a quiet sea, the generous soul of nature, the comforting arm of night, the wisdom of the ages, the power of the eagle’s flight, the joy of a morning in spring, the faith of […] Read more
