The Ten-Minute Storyteller
Want to hear some entertaining stories but don't have a lot of time? Here's your ticket to ride. The Ten-Minute Storyteller arrives packed with humor, pathos, humanity, and originality… in ten minutes or less. All stories written and narrated by Bill Simpson, an acclaimed novelist who has, after many years in the kitchen, perfected the short short story.
Episodes
This week we meet Storm. Storm is a serious deep sea fisherman. A passionate deep sea fisherman. Even if it’s only his hobby. Even if he only gets to do his thing a few days each year.
Storm has the boat, the tackle, and the knowledge to catch the big fish out in the deep water. Too bad he doesn’t have much time.
And no matter what the Stones might have told us back in 1964, time, that most preci...
This week we meet Zeb. Zeb has it all: plenty of dough, lots of high end real estate and snazzy cars, a gorgeous wife, good lookin kids.
But Zeb has a problem. A very serious problem. A problem that’s been festering for a while now but is about to come to a head.
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This week we meet Thomas. As in the Biblical Doubting Thomas, who had some concerns about The Resurrection.
Like a lot of us, Thomas raced into adulthood and left his youth behind. Including his religious upbringing. He sought new frontiers and new philosophies everywhere he turned.
But now he’s older, in his late forties, the father of three young children. And suddenly wondering about those things he left ...
This week we meet Claude. Claude is your average, run-of-the-mill, middle-aged guy with a middle management job.
Like millions of his brethren, Claude has a spouse and kids. He owns a house. And a couple cars. And a dog.
Also like many of his brethren, Claude gets irritated. Easily. And often.
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This week we meet Joey. Joey’s in a bit of a pickle, got himself stuck in the jar with the lid screwed on tight, and he’s not at all sure how to extricate himself.
It was all fun and good times for a while, well, for a very short while, but now, not so much. Just a lotta stress and three snot-nosed kids.
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This week we meet Dan. Dan has reached the top of the heap. He stands atop the Citadel.
Dan is a very powerful guy. The most powerful guy around.
Dan has untold legions who hang on his every word. Who love to death is fiery rhetoric in support of White Supremacy and Male Dominion.
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This week we meet Shelia. She’s had it up to her eyeballs with her two-timing husband. A liar and a serial cheater.
But she can’t think about that right now. The house has been invaded by yellow jackets. Can’t think about anything else till she rids the house of yellow jackets.
Shelia grabs her phone, races outside, and calls the exterminator.
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This week we meet Joe. Joe’s not really enjoying life.
Joe’s stuck. In a sort of emotional quicksand. He can’t pull himself out. Doesn’t know what to do or where to turn.
Joe blames his confinement on his wife, his kids, his job, his friends, but just under the surface Joe knows who’s really to blame.
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This week we meet Guy. Guy needs underwear. Heads for the mall. Where some white kids get tangled up with some black kids. The N-word careens around the food court. One kid pushes another kid. Fists fly. Blood spills.
The cops arrive. Put the white kid in a chair, the black kid on the floor. Tempers flare. Guns drawn.
What’s Guy going to do? What’s Guy going to say?
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This week we meet Sara. And her father, Judge Sammy Deleto. Sara has been raped. Or so she says. The Judge is aghast. Appalled. Angry.
And even more so when he finds out the rapist was... my God... Black.
His Anger turns to Alarm when she tells him she’s... pregnant!
“Good Lord!” shouts the Great Defender of the Womb. “This... this cannot stand!”...
This week we meet Sock. Every evening Sock and various companions meet at the park to go for a walk and discourse on a variety of lofty topics.
On this particular evening, cold and blustery, it appears it will only be Sock and his faithful hound Sally. But just as they set off, a young lady appears and together the trio ambles up Lyceum Hill.
Soon talk turns to Camus' Four Conditions for Happiness. A lively ...
This week we meet Jake. Cold and windy at the summit, but Jake's determined to make one last run. His buds say no way, done for the day, but Jake moves to the beat of his own drummer. He leaves the warmth and camaraderie of the lodge, steps into his Atomics, and heads for the lift.
Trouble is, there's a perfect storm brewing. Wind, cold, snow, party at the tech billionaire's ski lodge, obstinance, and lift operat...
This week we meet Dick. Dick’s at wit’s end. Bill Monroe owes Patrolman Dick Benson ten grand. Has owed the police officer ten grand for nearly two years. Dick wants his dough.
And more than wants it, Dick needs it. For his family. His wife and daughter. On several occasions he has begged and pleaded with Monroe to fork over the cash. All to no avail.
Well now Dick has a plan. A crazy-ass ...
This week we meet Mac. Mac’s on vacation. With his wife and teenage kids. They drove down to Duck on the Outer Banks. For a week of sun and fun.
Mac’s not happy. Mac dislikes vacations. Hates sitting around on his duff. But he has to tow the line. Can’t irritate the wife. Ruin it for the others.
The days grind on. Mac starts to ruminate. Recalls his spring break to Key West ba...
This week we meet Noah. Noah’s known loneliness. Been well acquainted. Knew it as a kid when his older sibs left the nest. Knew it in college freshman year without a bud in sight.
But he definitely didn’t expect to experience the emotion now. Not now as a middle-aged guy with a wife and three daughters. A crazy, chaotic life. Busy busy all the time.
But here she blows, that old foe loneliness, roiling ...
This week we meet Sam. The suits at corporate tell Sam to go home. Relax. Enjoy life. He no longer needs to report to the office.
Sam, baffled but delighted, heads home. Tells Shelley. She’s dubious. Wants the details.
“Chill, Shel,” Sam tells her. “It’s the new economy.”
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This week we meet Bull. Tim Bull. Bull was a heck of a high school athlete. Big. Strong. Fast.
Bull had a dream. He dreamed of a world without rancor. A world where cooperation, not competition, ruled the roost.
Bull’s middle age now, where Dreams go to die.
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This week we meet PFC Andy Walker. When the IED exploded and ripped through the Humvee, PFC Walker, on his very first patrol, survived, but with his brain scrambled.
So now he walks. Walks and walks. Seven days a week. PFC Walker—another victim of The War.
Any War.
Every War.
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This week we meet Carl. Carl’s made his dough. Occupies the corner office. He’s traveled the world. Bought the beach house and the fishing boat and the snazzy fleet of cars.
Too bad he hasn’t been able to escape the past. The war. The damn war. He’s tried everything but he can’t silence the explosions. The relentless explosions.
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This week we meet Reverend Johnson. Reverend Johnsonlikes to run out of gas. In the old days heliked to run out for spiritual reasons. These days his reasons are more bodily in nature.But no matter, spiritual or physical, the Revhas found a way, as humans so aptly do, to justify hiscarnal delights while pledging his faith to God. And to Jesus.
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