Serial City: Recent Episodes
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Serialized and self-contained stories, complemented with interviews. Breakfast cereal is discussed somewhere in each episode.
Author Omaria Sanchez Pratt reads from her short story Hyde River and talks about her writing and growing up in North Carolina. Rick Harsch stops by for a blink-you-missed-it Smiley Face Killers installment.
In this outing we interview Falls City architect Steve Wiser on historic preservation and efforts to save a storied Oddfellows Hall in town. Rick Harsch comes one step closer to solving the Smiley Face Mystery. TK examines the Oddfellows mystery against his run-ins with wonderfully odd men and women. And finally, Cedar Rapids Sammy returns to roast the host and turn in his two cents on the issues.
The Shaver Mystery barely survives as a footnote in the annals of science fiction history. But for a few years in the 1940s, it possessed the imagination of a sizeable group of Americans. A fierce band of detractors, and the American government, nipped the disturbing meme in the bud. But parts of this bizarre cosmology (created by a welder yoeman who saw things in rocks) never went away. Is the Shaver Mystery ready for a comeback? Rick Harsch delivers another Smiley Face Killers installment. Wisconsin author/funeral director John Sime shares stories on UFOs, ghosts, Shaver and more.
In this episode: Rick Harsch delivers the third Smiley Face Killer installment. Bell Roe tells of the mysterious Honey GB, the "perfect reader" he met in an AOL chat room called Poet Seeks Muse. Conversation with CR Sammy.
Our author teams up with the afterschool cartoon show duo of his childhood to host a mysterious birthday party out in middle of nowhere. Nothing is as what it appears, nor will ever be the same. Author Rick Harsch returns with the second segment of his mini-serial The Smiley Face Killers.
A creepy Santa, an Advent murder and the infamous Grope Cone... Christmas memories return to haunt in our title story. Also, Rick Harsch begins his Smiley Face serial and Strong Like Bear share the story behind their naughty new holiday classic, Christmas is Coming!!
In this strange story by David Vardeman, a blossom watching party reveals much more than meets the eye... Featuring an interview with David, as well as his publisher and fellow author Rick Harsch. Rick recently started the daring new publishing imprint corona/samizdat. Rick reads from his new novel, The Assassination of Olof Palme.
What sorts of stories does a mom tell? A collection of tales can connect the dots or blow up the map. For my mom it's a little of both: A smitten farmer who wraps a hay rack in silk, to a doting husband who ends up stalking his wife with a corn knife...
Was your family a camping family? For some, camping is the experience of a lifetime; for others, an ordeal from which they hope to one day recover. But what happens when your little sister decides to take over the family camper?