The conclusion of J. Michael Shell’s Preacher Porter’s Cure.
The Doggies are the oldest race in the galaxy. At least that we know of. The light beings are almost assuredly older, but like I said, my people pretty much pretend they don’t exist. To those of us who do admit it they’re an embarrassment, because they are probably what we should have evolved into. They’re what you would be if it wasn’t for The Lucies.
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Part 2 of Preacher Porter’s Cure by J. Michael Shell.
Adam Gauntlett opens his bookshelf to find The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell.
And Jim is joined by Jennifer Leeper, author of the novella Padre. Be sure and take a look at the very nice trailer!
I stayed with the preacher about a week. It was Sunday night when he took me in. For three days he watched over me while I got good and sick. I’d been at it a long time and stopping damn near killed me. Twice in that three days I was so bad the old preacher had to give me a little booze or I’d have gone into DTs. But when the worst of it was over he told me I wasn’t going to ever take alcohol again because I was going to be what God wanted me to be. “First thing you got to do is admit liquor’s stronger than you, but not stronger than God. It’s done wupped your ass and it’ll always wup it. Go ahead, admit it.”
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Welcome to the first issue of Nil Desperanum in our new audio magazine format, and the first which will be heard on the No Agenda Stream (Wednesdays at 12p PST / 3pm EST).
This week our main fiction is Preacher Porter’s Cure, by J. Michael Shell.
Adam Guantlet returns, and finds The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, on his Bookshelf.
And we are joined by Deanna Knippling, author of Miracle, Texas and Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocolypse to discuss her story, why Westerns should always end badly, and zombies.
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A special little story, just for Christmas. Krampus – A Christmas Tale. Written by Scott McKenzie, narrated and produced by Paul Alves, original music by Geoff Smith.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
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Thanks to everyone who listened live to our 2011 Nil Desperandum Christmas Special. This live event was great fun, and everyone definitely enjoyed it.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by E. T. A. Hoffman. Narrated by Jim Phillips, Lorna Boyle, Richard Kunz, Ken Stoffler, Charlie White, and Paul Alves.
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A Princess of the Moon by Patricia Correll. Narrated by Lorna Boyle.
Music is In Kamakkura — The Traditional Samurai Metropolitan in Japan by Ichiro NAKAGAWA.
The first night in the new village, Hinako couldn’t sleep. The house creaked and sighed all around her. She tried to hear Father breathing in the next room. But he was drowned in the settling of the house and the distant roar of the sea. Hinako rose. She dressed and slipped barefoot past her father’s door, out into the summer night.
Hinako wandered between the little houses, keeping near the walls, in the shadows. Inside the houses, strangers slept. But out here she was alone. Hinako hummed to herself, a song her mother used to sing. She turned a corner, onto the main road that bisected the village.
A ghost stood in the middle of the road.
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Adam’s Bookshelf disgorges The Dracula Trilogy by Kim Newman.
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The Wadi, by Glyn Hedeg. Narrated by Richard Kunz. Music is Marrakesh Breakdown Lane by Guillermo del Noche.
This story was previously published online by Yesteryear Fiction.
“Go and fetch some water Hassim,” my mother said. I picked up the buckets
and started to walk down towards the river. As I did so I overheard her
talking to her aunt.
“At least the well is safe now. It hasn’t collapsed for two years.”
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Adam opens his Bookshelf yet again and finds The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum.
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Just Another Graveyard Shift, by Tom Swoffer. Read by Charles McFall.
“I know it’s the second time this week he ain’t showed up. What the hell am I supposed to do about it?”
Whenever my old lady starts up with me, telling me something stupid I already know, something she expects me to do something about when there’s not a damn thing I can do, it really gets under my skin, like an itch you can’t scratch away. And the damn bitch knows that, too.
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