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Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 10
Appaloosa Radio - March 28, 2024 20:00 - 17 minutesNIGHT 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 ...
Night Rider Up To Truckee - Chapter 9
Appaloosa Radio - March 28, 2024 20:00 - 14 minutesNIGHT 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...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 8
Appaloosa Radio - March 24, 2024 22:00 - 13 minutesNIGHT 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 l...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 7 Radio Surfing
Appaloosa Radio - March 18, 2024 22:00 - 9 minutesNIGHT 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 conve...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 6
Appaloosa Radio - March 12, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutesNIGHT 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 ...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -Chapter 5
Appaloosa Radio - March 10, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutesNIGHT 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 giv...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 4
Appaloosa Radio - March 09, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutesNIGHT 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. ...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE -- Chapter 3
Appaloosa Radio - March 08, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutesNIGHT 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 ...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 1
Appaloosa Radio - March 06, 2024 22:00 - 17 minutesNIGHT 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 ...
NIGHT RIDER UP TO TRUCKEE - Chapter 2
Appaloosa Radio - March 06, 2024 22:00 - 13 minutesNIGHT 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 no...
Ghosts of the Artic
Appaloosa Radio - March 05, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutesThe 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 l...
My True Love is a Sonnet
Appaloosa Radio - February 26, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutesMy 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 hea...
Just the Facts
Appaloosa Radio - December 02, 2023 21:00 - 25 minutesJust 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 fiction...
A Love Letter - Berlin - January 1945
Appaloosa Radio - November 21, 2023 23:00 - 5 minutesA 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...
Escape - part 3 - A Bluff
Appaloosa Radio - November 18, 2023 21:00 - 13 minutesEscape! 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 ...
Escape! - part 2 - Time to Go
Appaloosa Radio - November 18, 2023 21:00 - 14 minutesEscape! 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 ...
Escape! - Part 4 --- Surrender and Return
Appaloosa Radio - November 18, 2023 21:00 - 24 minutesEscape! 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...
The Life of an Ice Cream Scooper
Appaloosa Radio - November 09, 2023 19:00 - 2 minutesSusan 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
Appaloosa Radio - November 08, 2023 23:00 - 1 minuteGladys 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
Appaloosa Radio - November 08, 2023 19:00 - 36 minutesEscape! 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,...
The Pond
Appaloosa Radio - October 15, 2023 20:00 - 3 minutesThree 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 use...
Moral Obligations
Appaloosa Radio - October 07, 2023 20:00 - 6 minutesMoral Obligations a 191-second audio story from Appaloosa Radio
Club Crazy
Appaloosa Radio - October 07, 2023 20:00 - 20 minutesClub Crazy by Bryson Kilmer Presented in collaboration with the Sacramento Suburban Writers. Humor. Bryson Kilmer tells about the zany meeting of one crazy club.
The Lies of a Salesman
Appaloosa Radio - September 28, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutesThe 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
Appaloosa Radio - September 27, 2023 19:00 - 4 minutesDying 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 fr...
My Father Beat Me
Appaloosa Radio - September 04, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutesMy 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 ...
Don’t Touch Anything!
Appaloosa Radio - August 26, 2023 21:00 - 8 minutesDon’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 h...
EVE AND PETRO – By Edith M. Patch
Appaloosa Radio - August 26, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutesEve 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 firs...
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Appaloosa Radio - August 25, 2023 20:00 - 8 minutesDon’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 h...
Biscuits and Gravy
Appaloosa Radio - August 24, 2023 22:00 - 9 minutesBiscuits 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 construct...
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