Appaloosa Radio
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago -Appaloosa Radio
online audio theater where original stories come alive!
Appaloosa Radio is a production of the Appaloosa Springs Audio Theater, a volunteer collaborative whose purpose is to create, produce, and share original story content through webcast radio experiences.
We offer a permanent archive of our original audio stories at Appaloosa Radio Productions ---
https://appaloosaradio.productions
We also offer a podcast service that adds new episodes each week. The podcast host is at ---
https://appaloosa_radio.buzzsprout.com
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Episodes
Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 10
March 28, 2024 20:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 10 On Making Bad Choices An itinerant musician gets off the Sacramento light rail train and brings his bicycle, guitar, and other belongings to where a group of frustrated and perspiring bus riders wait in the hot August sun for a very late eastbound bus. He announces, “I’m riding up to Truckee. Some of my old friends are performing in a club up there. I’m hoping to do some riffs with them.” Then, he adds “I’m...
Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 9
March 28, 2024 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 9 Lorraine An itinerant musician gets off the Sacramento light rail train and brings his bicycle, guitar, and other belongings to where a group of frustrated and perspiring bus riders wait in the hot August sun for a very late eastbound bus. He announces, “I’m riding up to Truckee. Some of my old friends are performing in a club up there. I’m hoping to do some riffs with them.” Then, he adds “I’m going to ride...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 8
March 24, 2024 22:00 - 13 minutes - 9.19 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 8 Tearing it into Little Pieces An itinerant musician gets off the light rail train and brings his bicycle, guitar, and other belongings to where a group of frustrated bus riders wait in the hot August sun for a very late eastbound bus. He announces “I’m riding up to Truckee. Some of my old friends are performing in a club up there. I’m hoping to do some riffs with them.” Then, he adds “I’m going to ride all nigh...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 7 Radio Surfing
March 18, 2024 22:00 - 9 minutes - 6.49 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 7 Radio Surfing An itinerant musician gets off the light rail train and moves his bicycle, guitar, and other belongings to where a group has gatherer waiting for a very late eastbound bus. Bicycle Guy began the conversation. “I’m riding up to Truckee. Some of my old friends are performing in a club up there. I’m hoping to do some riffs with them.” “In May, I rode over the Rocky Mountains, all the way from Boulde...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 6
March 12, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes - 5.94 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 6 rode that bike like a maniac "Once we were in the rustic cabin, I began. “Mr. Kirkby was killed last month. He was riding on his bicycle up the freeway to Truckee from Auburn. It was dark. I don’t believe he had any lights on his bike. A vehicle hit him. Probably, not the driver’s fault. Apparently, Mr. Kirkby swerved suddenly out in front of the vehicle.” ‘Crooked Leg’ Andersen looked saddened by the news. It w...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -Chapter 5
March 10, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.94 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 5 My Place is at the End of the Road "In the morning in my hotel room, I looked through the local phone directory to see what else Mescalero had to offer. I also wanted to cross-check the phone number that Stan had given me. In the slim phone book, I found two listings under “Andersen, Robert.” The first was just a phone number and a post office box number. The second was for “Anderson, Robert, Apache Cattle Buye...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 4
March 09, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.06 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 4 Not on a Cruise Anyone in his right mind would want a five-day cruise sipping Margaritas next to their really sexy girlfriend (in a bikini no less). Far more preferable than a trip to the empty deserts of New Mexico. A trip for some poorly defined purposes. However, at this point, I was no longer in my right mind. I left early the next morning, following my GPS south. I was a hunter fixed on my prey. I was goin...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -- Chapter 3
March 08, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.42 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 3 Winds of the Roaring Plains Stan, my private investigator friend, finally finished his two massive chili burgers, gulped down a 22-ounce Coke, and then shared the results from his latest investigation. “They are a country-western group, but they are not called Winds of the Plains. No, they named themselves the Winds of the Roaring Plains. By all accounts they really roared! A bunch of old rockers, perpetually...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 1
March 06, 2024 22:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 1 The Bicycle Guy An itinerant musician gets off the light rail train and moves his bicycle, guitar, and other belongings to where a group has gatherer waiting for a very late eastbound bus. Bicycle Guy began the conversation. “I’m riding up to Truckee. Some of my old friends are performing in a club up there. I’m hoping to do some riffs with them.” Mr. Hawaiian Shirt had information that the Bicycle Guy did ...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 2
March 06, 2024 22:00 - 13 minutes - 9.29 MBNIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE An original story from Appaloosa Radio Chapter 2 News Story Two days later, I was reading a local newspaper when a small news item caught my attention. “Transient killed riding bicycle at night on Interstate 80.” Not much more. The driver of the pick-up was not at fault, said the California Highway Patrol spokesperson. The bicycle had swerved unexpectedly into on-coming traffic. The article did give a name DAVID WAYNE KIRKBY and said that the transient car...
Ghosts of the Artic
March 05, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThe note was all too brief. It had been placed where they believed it would be readily found, under the cairn marking the exploration of the region by an earlier expedition. The note simply read: “25th, April 1848. Her Majesty’s ships 'Terror' and 'Erebus' were deserted on the 22nd April, 5 leagues North, Northwest of this spot, havIng been beset since 12th September, 1846. The officers and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain F.R.M. Crozier. Sir John Franklin die...
My True Love is a Sonnet
February 26, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.34 MBMy True Love is a Sonnet A Story and a Song Taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose p...
Just the Facts
December 02, 2023 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBJust the Facts “He had done this hundreds of times while working on hundreds of cases. The grizzled, veteran, police detective sergeant checked his notepad for details, and then he turned to the eyewitness to confirm the facts. His job was to confirm the facts. “Just the facts,” as the fictional radio detective Sergeant Joe Friday did every week on the show, Dragnet.” The police dectective believes that there are facts. Discoverable, evidence-based facts. Hard facts, as the detective serg...
A Love Letter - Berlin - January 1945
November 21, 2023 23:00 - 5 minutes - 3.55 MBA Love Letter Berlin January 1945 This letter was never mailed. It was found in 2011 neatly folded inside a family Bible. Ingrid’s father had been the Director of one of Berlin’s most prestigious hospitals which had provided care for many of the Nazi elite. After the War, he was sanctioned, but not imprisoned. The family moved to Dusseldorf where he again worked as a physician. In 1948, Christa Vogel applied for a secretarial position with the municipal government. To obtain it, she ...
Escape! - Part 4 --- Surrender and Return
November 18, 2023 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBEscape! A work of fiction based on a true story Part 4 --- Surrender and Return Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were three G.I.s from Western Pennsylvania serving in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division who were captured on December 19, 1944. This work of fiction tells about their escape from the notorious Stalag IV-B P.O.W. prison and their eventual (and eventful!) return to the medical amenities of Camp ...
Escape! - part 2 - Time to Go
November 18, 2023 21:00 - 14 minutes - 9.78 MBEscape! A work of fiction based on a true story Part 2 --- Time to Go Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were three G.I.s from Western Pennsylvania serving in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division who were captured on December 19, 1945. This work of fiction tells about their escape from the notorious Stalag IV-B P.O.W. prison and their eventual (and eventful!) return to the medical amenities of Camp Lucky Stri...
Escape - part 3 - A Bluff
November 18, 2023 21:00 - 13 minutes - 9.68 MBEscape! A work of fiction based on a true story Part 3 --- A Bluff Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were three G.I.s from Western Pennsylvania serving in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division who were captured on December 19, 1944. This work of fiction tells about their escape from the notorious Stalag IV-B P.O.W. prison and their eventual (and eventful!) return to the medical amenities of Camp Lucky Strike....
The Life of an Ice Cream Scooper
November 09, 2023 19:00 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBSusan Abrams gives us a short story about one of her favorite kitchen utensils, an older ice cream scooper with a yellow, fluted handle.
Gladys Patricia Symington
November 08, 2023 23:00 - 1 minute - 1.27 MBGladys Patricia Symington by Jeannie Turner originally published in From a Writer’s Finger to a Butterfly’s Wing An anthology by the Sacramento Suburban Writers Club Jeannie Turner shares a brief poem about her favorite travel companion.
Escape! Part 1
November 08, 2023 19:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBEscape! A work of fiction based on a true story Part 1 Nearly 23,000 American soldiers were captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Among them were three G.I.s from Western Pennsylvania serving in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division who were captured on December 19, 1945. This work of fiction tells about their escape from the notorious Stalag IV-B P.O.W. prison and their eventual (and eventful!) return to the medical amenities of Camp Lucky Strike. It is a wo...
The Pond
October 15, 2023 20:00 - 3 minutes - 2.33 MBThree times a week, Owen Namura drove his mother from her mobile home to the pond in the park. He would unload her walker and then assist her to walk the 200 yards to the stone wall surrounding the pond, and then help her to sit on it. Once she was situated, each would smoke a cigarette. He used to smoke a cigar, but she did not like its smell. So, he chose mentholated cigarettes instead. They would look at the pond, but neither would speak. Then after twenty minutes or so, Owen would help...
Club Crazy
October 07, 2023 20:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBClub Crazy by Bryson Kilmer Presented in collaboration with the Sacramento Suburban Writers. Humor. Bryson Kilmer tells about the zany meeting of one crazy club.
Moral Obligations
October 07, 2023 20:00 - 6 minutes - 4.46 MBMoral Obligations a 191-second audio story from Appaloosa Radio
The Lies of a Salesman
September 28, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 3.4 MBThe Lies of a Salesmen By Markus Place A One-hundred-and-91-Second Story On Appaloosa Radio A retired super-salesman ponders the role of lying and falsehood in business relationships.
Bode and Syvilla
September 27, 2023 19:00 - 4 minutes - 2.84 MBDying Friends, Syvilla and Bode A 191 second story From Appaloosa Radio My best friend from college, Scott, now lives in Southern Oregon in the Illinois River Valley in a house that he built himself. For the last dozen years, every morning he did a run along the river with his ever-present friend, his dog Bode. This morning, Scott texted me that Bode had died. His fast-growing cancer had overwhelmed him. Scott included a picture of Bode lying in his bed, with a caption saying that, Bode w...
My Father Beat Me
September 04, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.26 MBMy Father Beat Me A 91-second Story Created for Appaloosa Radio From a --- Private Journal Entry June 17, 1973 My father beat me. Not just the occasional swat. No. He used his leather razor strap to hit me multiple times on my legs, on my hips, and on my back. He would do it three or four times a week. I remember that when I was thirteen, he beat me eight times during the same week. That’s right, twice in the same day.
Don’t Touch Anything!
August 26, 2023 21:00 - 8 minutes - 6.14 MBDon’t Touch Anything! By Jody Carnes-Hart For Appaloosa Radio I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large, California State agency. I am now spending much of my time, sharing stories about how technology has impacted us. This is a story from my husband, from a summer job that he had in 1968. That summer, he worked in the collating room at a company that produced a unique product, the so-called “secret” book of listings that every real estate...
EVE AND PETRO – By Edith M. Patch
August 26, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBEve and Petro Rocky Mountain Swallows By Edith M. Patch By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She was the premier “bug lady” of her time, a serious scientist who contributed hundreds of papers to her field and who eventually became the first-ever-woman President of the Entomological Society of America. She was, also, a scientist who wanted to excite children’s interest and enthusiasm in natural history by writing engaging stories about...
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August 25, 2023 20:00 - 8 minutes - 6.14 MBDon’t Touch Anything! By Jody Carnes-Hart For Appaloosa Radio I have recently retired from my position as the Chief Technology Officer for a large, California State agency. I am now spending much of my time, sharing stories about how technology has impacted us. This is a story from my husband, from a summer job that he had in 1968. That summer, he worked in the collating room at a company that produced a unique product, the so-called “secret” book of listings that every real estate...
Biscuits and Gravy
August 24, 2023 22:00 - 9 minutes - 6.3 MBBiscuits and Gravy An original audio story Written for Appaloosa Radio It was Wednesday morning and that always meant a massive plate of biscuits and gravy at Dee’s Skillet, a breakfast joint on Highway 101. And it always meant that Jim would join him. They had worked together on a construction job some twenty or so years ago. Both were electricians. Both had come to Silicon Valley to make the really good wages. Both loved NASCAR. Most importantly, both were from Texas. To be sure, one h...
Where Did the Rabbits Go?
August 24, 2023 20:00 - 2 minutes - 880 KBWhere did the rabbits go? A 91-Second Story Written for Appaloosa Radio In the late 1940s, a four-year-old lives near his grandparents in an old lumber camp on Lake Ballenger, Washington. Each day, he puts on his red rubber boots and follows his grandfather down a scary path to feed the rabbits that the grandfather raises. Once a month, a truck comes and takes some of the rabbits away, but the boy never knows where the rabbits go. Then, when he is ten, an older cousin takes him hunting ...
Hummingbirds
August 04, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes - 3.62 MBHummingbirds A 91-second audio story Written for Appaloosa Radio Have you ever thought about a (non-human) species adapting to a new technology?
Furious
August 03, 2023 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.4 MBAppaloosa Radio offers An original audio story By D. R. Nichols Furious "You hate him, you really do."
Bear or Steer – Steer or Bear
August 02, 2023 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.89 MBBear or Steer – Steer or Bear A 91-secon story Written for Appaloosa Radio Hiking can be dangerous!
THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE
July 31, 2023 22:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBTHE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE By Edith M. Patch By training and occupation, Edith Patch was one of the world’s foremost entomologists. She was the premier “bug lady” of her time, a serious scientist who contributed hundreds of papers to her field and who eventually became the first-ever-woman President of the Entomological Society of America. She was, also, a scientist who wanted to excite children’s interest and enthusiasm in natural history by writing engaging stories about the many creat...
Dog, a Man, and a Cessna
July 29, 2023 19:00 - 3 minutes - 2.62 MBDog, a Man, and a Cessna A 91-second Story from Appaloosa Radio
Waring Windows
July 28, 2023 19:00 - 4 minutes - 3.4 MBWaring Windows by Paul Lawrence A 91-second Story
My Best Friend Wrote a Book
July 28, 2023 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.57 MBMy Best Friend Wrote a Book by Allen S. Graham A 91-Second Story from Appaloosa Radio
Golf
July 20, 2023 22:00 - 3 minutes - 2.8 MBGolf A 91-seond Story Written for Appaloosa Radio by Paul Lawrence
The New Kid
July 14, 2023 20:00 - 4 minutes - 3.39 MBNew Kid A 91-second story Written For Appaloosa Radio
Not My Kids
July 13, 2023 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.95 MBNOT MY KIDS By Gloria de la Rossa a 90-second story
The Worst Day
July 12, 2023 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3 MBThe Worst Day By McNeil Aimmes An extremely short story
Shorty
July 10, 2023 21:00 - 3 minutes - 2.26 MBAppaloosa Radio is now webcasting extremely short fiction stories, i.e., stories running about 90 seconds long.
The Ride
June 26, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBAppaloosa Radio Presents An original Audio Story The Ride In June 1979, two brothers drive an electrical contractor’s work truck up to the Mojave Desert from Huntington Beach, California. They could not be more different. Professor Tomar Hinton is an “up and coming” philosopher now teaching at an exclusive private university in North Carolina. His younger brother, James, is an electrical contractor leading a crew which is constructing huge windmills on the crest of the desert’s mount...
A Most Decrepit Ferry and the Magic of Chiku Shan
May 29, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBA Most Decrepit Ferry and the Magic of Chiku Shan As re-told in Rarrko’s Celebration Speech An Original Story by Appaloosa Radio From the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series Representing his father, the Nineteenth Great Nobleman of Sassko, Noble Son Dusko Rarrko has been asked to re-tell the exciting adventure story of the escape of the Chiku Shan people from the tyranny of the brutal Nata-Vavra. The escape was aboard a decrepit ferry craft that was captained by a former smuggler, M...
Sauced
March 24, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBSauced An Original Story by Appaloosa Radio From the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series “Luscious Lell by the ever-lovely Lake . . . . Satisfying your every pleasure is our only business.” “Within the world of espionage, they often call it a “honeytrap.” A sweet opportunity to trap an individual, to compromise them, to procure information, to elicit on-going cooperation. The enticements often include sex, drugs, special status, and money. Once an individual falls into the honeytrap,...
The Beast
March 13, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBCity of 4000 Spies The Beast Dusko Rarrko, the second son of the Nineteenth Great Nobleman of Sassko, was probably Lell’s most recognizable spy. He was handsome, athletic, and ingenious. He wore flashy high-end fashion and drove a speeder that broke 1.75. He was seldom seen without a bevy of beautiful females and was often described with that old-fashioned word “playboy” (although no one seemed to know what it meant). He looked the part of a spy. He moved in the nuanced way that spies mov...
Posited Murder
March 08, 2023 18:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBPosited Murder An Original Story by Appaloosa Radio From the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series ~~~ Rarrko:“Thank you PNB7Q for locating these for me. I have wanted to resolve the matter for some time.” PNB7Q: “The documents that you had sought were difficult to find. They had been hidden in a bunker in a long-abandoned military base. It took some bribery and duplicity to obtain them. [long pause] I notice that they are from a war that has been over for nearly forty-five quants.” ...
Information is Expensive
February 26, 2023 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBAppaloosa Radio Offers An original audio drama From the City of 4,000 Spies Series Information is Expensive PNB7Q knew Noble Son Dusko Rarrko from many eons of clandestine work together. Their relationship was as close as a data device and a sentient being could be. The PNB7Q knew that what was left unsaid was often more important than what was spoken. Many times, a whiff of intuition had more value than volumes of specific, and detailed information. There was a reason why Nobl...