Mythical Minstrelsy and Flash Fiction Fridays
78 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago -Mythical Minstrelsy and Flash Fiction Fridays will focus on flash fictions centering around folklore, myth, fantasy, and magic that I have written or have been sent to me for publication. Book reviews will also be published. Author, editor, illustrator, publisher, poet, and rpg site owner interviews are planned for in the future. The episodes are intentionally short due to the nature of flash fiction. Reviews tend to go up on Wednesdays, Flashfictions on Fridays, Interviews Sundays.
If you wish YOUR poetry, short fiction, or flash fictions to be included on the podcast, or to be interviewed, please see Podcast Submissionsl for details. Featured work is paid, interviews are not.
I am the author of the "Selkies' Skins" and "Dragon Shaman" series. I also write poetry, illustrate, and do some narration. I also run a small publishing company, THG StarDragon Publishing.
You can find me on my Patreon where I post content first, as it is my central location for sharing all of my projects. Check out the links below for other places to find me and how you can help. Back issues will eventually be uploaded to Gumroad.
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Episodes
Interview with Author Jo Jewell
May 12, 2019 17:31 - 17 minutes - 17 BytesToday I am reading the interview I had with author Jo Jewell of Pen It! Publications. I plan to do several interviews to work into my postings. I'll be interviewing authors, a game creator, hopefully some illustrators and editors and others involved in the publishing industry. I already have two others to record the answers from as well. I'll be sending out a few at a time to that I don't overload myself with content to do around my work, so if I've worked with you in the past on a project r...
Flash Fiction Fridays #11: The Sock Drawer
May 10, 2019 07:43 - 5 minutes - 5 BytesHave you ever wondered about the life of a sock? Do they really understand our point of view? The Sock Drawer The warm night always came to an end. Day by day the drawer would be pulled out with a deafening rumble. Every day they would loose at least one pair and sometimes more to the giant. Sometimes a fresh pack would be nestled in among them, the babies too young to be released into their cottony swarm. When and if the giant returned any of those it took they always returned worn and ba...
Ame's Bookshelf: "Femme Fatale Online" And VoiceMeeter Reviews
May 08, 2019 18:30 - 10 minutes - 10 BytesBook Review Title: Femme Fatale Online Author: Eugene Rodgers Where to get: https://amzn.to/2UAUC7D Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): 17+ Secondary Review VoiceMeeter (software) http://www.vb-audio.com --- Want to visit me, see some of my other works, or support me? Find me at: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/Amehana Ko-fi: http://www.ko-fi.com/amehana DeviantArt: http://amehanarainstardrago.deviantart.com Dreamwidth: http://rainstardragon.dreamwidth.org Livejournal: http://rai...
Booktube Real Talk Tag: Teresa or Amehana's views on booktubing and publishing overlap
May 07, 2019 07:16 - 18 minutes - 18 BytesOriginal Tag Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuIil5h-vKk Emmmabooks video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNYNlDt4WY Publishers I work with in some fashion THG StarDragon Publishing: http://www.thgstardragon.com Pen It! Publications: http://www.penitpublications.com Gaming sites and groups I work with in publishing/content Dragon Hearts RPG: http://www.dragonheartsrpg.com Dreaming Twilight (SL group) booktube real talk tag - questions - 1. What's something nobody told y...
Flash Fiction Fridays #10: Rainbow (story/poem)
May 07, 2019 07:03 - 2 minutes - 2 Bytes=Rainbow= =By Teresa Garcia= A summons rolls through the web Summoning there to the step A shimmer of light that dances Setting into lyric stanzas The message she must swiftly bear Beneath her lord’s imposing stare Across the land so fast and grand Distributing by her hand the master plan The hopes and dreams he has penned Rooted in the past where is stemmed The tree that connects earth and sky Where the Norns do quietly ply Their trade of spinning from beginning The story tha...
Flash Fiction Fridays #9: Playfulness (A Selkies' Skins short story reading)
May 07, 2019 06:58 - 5 minutes - 5 BytesThe below flash fiction is set in the Selkies’ Skins universe sometime after Kirsty and David have graduated, married, and started their life together. I have left it intentionally unclear as to exactly how long after graduation. It is long enough for a house in the once again village of Seal Point to be finished near the home Kirsty grew up in. Originally posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana. Playfulness David rummaged in the impeccably clean pantry looking for his tinned fish. Kirsty was a...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 8: Wikatcha
May 07, 2019 06:55 - 9 minutes - 9 BytesOriginally posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana Wikatcha “What’s wrong?” His voice growled but held a tinge of watery burbles. “Where is our baby? I heard birthing cries earlier.” “They took him Wikatcha. When I birthed our baby they never gave it to me. The medicine mother took the child straight out to mother and father. My parents want to drown our baby, like a kitten!” Wikatcha sighed and held the trembling woman close. She felt frail, weak, and the scent of blood still clung to her. He...
Flash Fiction Fridays #8: Wikatcha
May 07, 2019 06:55 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBOriginally posted on www.patreon.com/AmehanaWikatcha“What’s wrong?” His voice growled but held a tinge of watery burbles. “Where is our baby? I heard birthing cries earlier.”“They took him Wikatcha. When I birthed our baby they never gave it to me. The medicine mother took the child straight out to mother and father. My parents want to drown our baby, like a kitten!”Wikatcha sighed and held the trembling woman close. She felt frail, weak, and the scent of blood still ...
Ame's Bookshelf Review: Berkley Street by Ron Ripley
May 07, 2019 06:49 - 6 minutes - 6 BytesBook Review Title: Berkley Street: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses (Berkley Street Series Book 1) Author: Ron Ripley Where to get: https://amzn.to/2Nxf1aW Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): YA This was a well done creepy story. Parts of it did not hit me as hard as they should have. That may have to do with reading in bed with the heater going and surrounded by dogs though, so I was not given the solitude to fully appreciate all that had been intended to be scary....
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 7: Water Bride
May 07, 2019 06:45 - 8 minutes - 8 BytesThis story takes inspiration from the Zuni tale of Kolowisi. It turned out much longer than I originally thought. It would take for her to tell her tale. I started intending a poem and the Water Bride wasn't having it for this iteration. Water Bride Long ago I went for water from the spring. This was my favorite place to go and I always treasured the time I could spend here. I was free to be myself, without eyes judging me, without the worries about who my parents would finally give me awa...
Flash Fiction Fridays #7: Water Bride
May 07, 2019 06:45 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MBThis story takes inspiration from the Zuni tale of Kolowisi. It turned out much longer than I originally thought. It would take for her to tell her tale. I started intending a poem and the Water Bride wasn't having it for this iteration.Water BrideLong ago I went for water from the spring. This was my favorite place to go and I always treasured the time I could spend here. I was free to be myself, without eyes judging me, without the worries about who my parents would...
Flash Fiction Fridays #6: Obsession
May 07, 2019 06:41 - 4 minutes - 6.35 MBThis one is a longer flash fiction centering around Empress Raikou and Emperor Horin long after their political marriage to unite the peoples of their empire and stop civil war. This land has had some long running problems with imbalance and in their world is a seat of the struggle between the forces of Wisdom and Ignorance.Originally posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana.ObsessionCandles cast their glow around the room and dripped into the platters beneath them. Her quil...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 6: Obsession
May 07, 2019 06:41 - 4 minutes - 4 BytesThis one is a longer flash fiction centering around Empress Raikou and Emperor Horin long after their political marriage to unite the peoples of their empire and stop civil war. This land has had some long running problems with imbalance and in their world is a seat of the struggle between the forces of Wisdom and Ignorance. Originally posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana. Obsession Candles cast their glow around the room and dripped into the platters beneath them. Her quill scratched at the...
Ame's Bookshelf: Simon Necronomicon Illustrated - Review
May 07, 2019 06:37 - 4 minutes - 4 BytesIt sounds like a swimsuit issue on yet further thought. Book Review Title: The Simon Necronomicon (Illustrated) Author: Unknown Where to get: https://amzn.to/2UgS8eE Star Rating: 4 Age Rating (IMO): YA Interesting #metabook #hplovecraft #bookreview If you are a Lovecraft Mythos fan you may find this an interesting read. One benefits from some previous knowledge of mysticism, I would recommend reading the Golden Bough first. However, bear in mind this Necronomicon is not to be take...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 5: The Rend
May 07, 2019 06:33 - 2 minutes - 2 BytesWe don't think twice about those little gaps in reality, those times the world is odd. What is given for normalcy? Originally posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana
Flash Fiction Fridays #5: The Rend
May 07, 2019 06:33 - 2 minutes - 3.6 MBOriginally posted on www.patreon.com/AmehanaIt's time for Flash Fiction Friday again! Today I have:The RendThe air sizzled and rippled around the fresh rend in the veil. With care she hurriedly stitched to close it. Mist continued to pour out and purple crackled across the clouds above. Hopefully she could close it before they felt the weakness. Too many years she had scuttled across this world repairing these. How many generations without any others to swell the dwin...
Ame's Bookshelf Book Reviews: The Adventures of Nicolas Flamel #2, The Magician
May 07, 2019 06:29 - 2 minutes - 2 BytesBook Review Title: The Magician Author: Michael Scott Where to get: https://amzn.to/2YkW28o Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): All
Flash Fiction Fridays #4: Trade
May 07, 2019 06:24 - 2 minutes - 3.32 MBThis flash fiction touches on the seal folk. Long ago a Patron and friend asked for a tale of selkies in a Native American milieu. This is a long awaited glimpse into the life of one of the seal folk somewhere on the Eastern coast of America.Flash Fiction: TradeWaves crashed against her rock, froth spraying up to dampen her. The sun was warm here, though the ever present sea breeze did what it could to take the warmth away. Beside her spread out her skin to bake to le...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 4: Trade
May 07, 2019 06:24 - 2 minutes - 2 BytesThis flash fiction touches on the seal folk. Long ago a Patron and friend asked for a tale of selkies in a Native American milieu. This is a long awaited glimpse into the life of one of the seal folk somewhere on the Eastern coast of America. Flash Fiction: Trade Waves crashed against her rock, froth spraying up to dampen her. The sun was warm here, though the ever present sea breeze did what it could to take the warmth away. Beside her spread out her skin to bake to let the oils seep in t...
Ame's Bookshelf: Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks Review
May 07, 2019 06:19 - 2 minutes - 2 BytesBook Review Title: The Zombie Survival Guide Author: Max Books Where to get: https://amzn.to/2Jzglff Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): PG Worried about what to do when that Zombie virus starts the worst outbreak that could happen? Want to keep alive and your brain? You want to read or listen to this book then. Recorded with the Amorno wireless headset and edited in Audacity. I do have to admit that it was growing up watching Reading Rainbow that influenced me into writing my own stori...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 Ep 3: Fish Army
May 07, 2019 06:08 - 3 minutes - 3 BytesA diver makes the discovery of his life, but is it one he wants? This one was inspired by an off the wall short discussion in the Catfort/ASA Discord server. Previously posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana.
Flash Fiction Fridays #3: Fish Army
May 07, 2019 06:08 - 3 minutes - 4.55 MBThis one was inspired by an off the wall short discussion in the Catfort/ASA Discord server. Previously posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana.Fish ArmyBubbles rose from his mask where he floated below the kelp. The shape he followed wove in and out of view ahead. Cautiously he increased his speed, trying to draw closer. The warty grey fish was something he had never seen before in all his dives and he needed pictures. The fish moved faster as if it sensed his intentions. ...
Ame's Bookshelf: The Old Man and the Watch
May 07, 2019 06:04 - 3 minutes - 3 BytesBook Review Title: The Old Man and the Watch Author: Jo Jewell Where to get: https://amzn.to/2tIW5wY Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): YA This book was the chosen book for one of the book clubs I am part of. However it is one I had wanted to read before it had been chosen. It was a good opportunity for me to set the time to read it. It certainly also made being ill much more tolerable. I greatly enjoyed how detailed and interwoven the plot was. The characters came alive for me and cons...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 ep 2: Sample
May 07, 2019 05:59 - 2 minutes - 2 BytesFor #FlashFictionFridays here is a drabble (100 word) story. This one is playing with modern mythology and aliens a bit.
Flash Fiction Fridays #2: Sample
May 07, 2019 05:59 - 2 minutes - 3.45 MBFor #FlashFictionFridays here is a drabble (100 word) story. This one is playing with modern mythology a bit.Flash Fiction: SampleThey shine in the darkness, twinkling eyes down at those trapped below. To them our world looks so peaceful. They don’t hear our cries rising to gazing skies. They only know the quiet of deep space. We spin and whirl in orbit, dancing around the gaseous core of our system. Unknown to us we are but atoms, bound in a molecule, part of a cell....
Ame's Bookshelf Reviews: The Resurrectionist: The Lost Works of Dr Spencer Black By E.B. Hudspeth
May 07, 2019 05:56 - 4 minutes - 4 BytesBook Review Title: The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black Author: E.B. Hudspeth Where to get: https://amzn.to/2E9pFjW Star Rating: 5 Age Rating (IMO): PG 13 The Resurrectionist by E.B. Hudspeth I came across on Amazon through one of their routine mailings, it may have been their first read program but I no longer remember. I finally got to finish this two part book and was very impressed. The first part is a fictional biography of a doctor who falls from grace after he...
Flash Fiction Fridays #1: Death of Pride
May 07, 2019 05:47 - 4 minutes - 6.06 MBA young woman has just moved out. Determined to prove she can live on her own her car has other ideas.Written by Teresa Garcia. First posted on www.patreon.com/AmehanaFlash Fiction: Death of PrideShe stared at the lump of steel, plastic, rubber, leather, glass, and wire. It continued staring ahead with its glassy eyes unmoved by her tears and cries. Her toe found the rubber with speed even though both she and the lump knew that would do nothing to fix the problem. It ...
Flash Fiction Fridays Season 1 ep 1: Death of Pride
May 07, 2019 05:47 - 4 minutes - 4 BytesA young woman has just moved out. Determined to prove she can live on her own her car has other ideas. Written by Teresa Garcia. First posted on www.patreon.com/Amehana Flash Fiction: Death of Pride She stared at the lump of steel, plastic, rubber, leather, glass, and wire. It continued staring ahead with its glassy eyes unmoved by her tears and cries. Her toe found the rubber with speed even though both she and the lump knew that would do nothing to fix the problem. It would do her no go...