The Really Short Story Podcast

The Really Short Story Podcast

Based on the series of short story books started by James Lott Jr. Short story books will be read and discussed! All of the Really Short Story Project Books are on amazon.com Also the place for short audio dramas and audio comedies. Some stories are spinoff's from JLJ Media series, others are original content from James Lott Jr and other writers and producers.

Episodes

June 14, 2025 3 mins
A late in life gay coming out story in time for Pride Month (June). Read by Hans. Written by James Lott Jr.
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Story by La Monica Andrews.
Part 1 available on this podcast! 
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May 31, 2025 2 mins
Story by LaMonica Andrews! 
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Penultimate Wish part 1 is written by LaMonica Andrews! 
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The Light In Apartment 3B was written by Charles Wong! 
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The Bookshop Cat was written by Charles Wong. 
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Our 2nd AI generated story about A Filipino American Son and his DAD. Read by Anthony Tupasi! 
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August 9, 2024 9 mins
James updates you on the exciting writing projects he's working on! 
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JLJ Reads some of his unreleased Short stories and poems! 
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JLJ is reading a scene from the Unreleased/unfinished musical Who IS Arthur Jackson and Why Is His House So Messy. 
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JLJ is reading excertps from Scrabble the Musical, an unreleased/unfinished project from 2014. 
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June 15, 2024 7 mins
JLJ is reading unreleased works from his "vaults".  This one is from 2017, The Key.
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June 1, 2024 9 mins
James Lott Jr explains! 
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April 13, 2024 2 mins
This is April 2024 and thank you to all the newer or returning listeners to this podcast! 
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James Lott Jr makes up a short story while in bed waking up! 
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February 29, 2024 4 mins
The Leap Of Love by Charles Wong (read by James Lott Jr)
An original story about a Leap day miracle.
This story is being released on Leap Day 2024
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February 3, 2024 5 mins
James Lott Jr shares his experience as a teen going to a Pentecostal church!
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Writer and host James Lott Jr examines the Difference Between Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Novellas, Novelettes, six word stories, twitterature, and novels!
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January 13, 2024 4 mins
James Lott Jr went to Chat GPT and asked for a short story about January and AI generated this one. Here it and James' commentaty afterwards!
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November 3, 2023 3 mins
James Lott Jr the founder of the Really Short Story Podcast makes an announcement!
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