Category: Stories

MPF 5 – The Cost of Miracles

By , March 8, 2010 11:49 pm

Welcome to the 2nd half of the story. I’ll try to consolidate these in the future, which means I need to get writing earlier in the process. Good news is that I’m working on a collaboration RIGHT NOW with Scott Roche, of the Archangel podcast. Of course, I don’t know if that will appear here but…

Anyway, here’s the rest of the story of Alexander, Markus, Ragnar, and Fabius. Hope you enjoy it!

Download MPF5.mp3

MPF 4 – A Premonition

By , February 23, 2010 12:45 am

MAN, I stink at titles.

Anyway, here’s a story. At least the first part of one. It will be continued in the next episode, which will be along real soon now. Hopefully by the end of the week. Whew!

Meantime, I hope you enjoy this. This week’s lesson – Write First, Edit Later. I’m going to be spending some quality time at writeordie.drwicked.com. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this week’s part of a story. Seemed like a logical place to end it.

Download MPF4.mp3

MPF 3 – The Assignment

By , February 9, 2010 12:58 am

Howdy and welcome to another episode of Mad Poet Files.

Life for the last two weeks has been cuckoo crazy. That and I was lazy the first week. Bad Writer No Twinkie!

So, here’s a backup story. The story that I’m currently working on will drop as MPF 4, some time between now and two weeks from Tuesday, and you’ll still get a fresh shiny episode in two weeks. (MPF 5, for those who are counting.)

Also, I’ve been thinking about bundling together the stories when I hit five, and sticking them on Amazon as a Kindle download, or something like that. I’d appreciate any thoughts or advice on that course of action before I actually try it.

MPF PDF 2 – No More Kings

By , February 2, 2010 12:08 am

Here’s the PDF copy of the Second Mad Poet File – No More Kings.

Again, I wish I knew what the heck I was thinking of with the numbering. I switched a little language here, something someone pointed out didn’t exactly fit with the tone of the rest of the piece. I’ve left the old language in, but stricken out.

With the recent Amazon/Macmillan brouhaha, I’m suddenly even more unsure about putting the stories together in a bundle and selling them via Amazon or someone else. I mean, I would like to give listeners a way to support the cast, but… ah well. It’s way early to be thinking about this, with only two stories down.

MPF 2 – No More Kings

By , January 25, 2010 10:40 pm

Yeah, I have no idea what I was thinking with the numbers I had for the first ep.

This story was written, edited, and recorded in less than twelve hours. Wow. It’s a little shorter than last week’s, and it wasn’t the story I thought it would be, but I hope you enjoy it!

Download MPF2.mp3

Special Delivery today…

By , January 19, 2010 9:36 pm

You know… it’s gotta be beginner’s luck.
Photobucket

The story that won the honorable mention is available in text at: http://greathites.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-hites-63.html, and in audio…

aw what the heck…

Right here. Enjoy!

MPF PDF 1-01 – Frosty’s Deposit

By , January 16, 2010 4:53 pm
Here’s the PDF copy of the first Mad Poet File – Frosty’s Deposit.
I’ve been debating the idea of putting these up on Amazon for the Kindle, but I’m still weighing that out in my head. On one hand it tells me (a) which stories people liked better, and (b) gives people a way to support the podcast directly.
On the other hand, there may be costs to doing that of which I am as yet blissfully unaware. (Ah, bliss!) And I wouldn’t feel remarkably comfortable doing that until I had at least four stories under my belt, but there we are.
So, anyway, something to consider. Here’s the first story.
Enjoy!
Download MPF1-Frosty.pdf

MPF 1-01 – Frosty’s Deposit

By , January 11, 2010 11:42 pm

Welcome to the first episode of the Mad Poet Files – a semi-weekly short story podcast.

This is episode 1 – Frosty’s Deposit, or Cold Cash. The PDF version of this story will be up Friday morning.

Music – Triforce! by the Mad Titans.

Enjoy!

Download MPF1-Frosty

Panorama Theme by Themocracy