-- Subtitle -- Death offers no release when the dead walk the earth. -- Description -- Dracula is a sixteen hour audiobook by Bram Stoker. -- Excerpt -- If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror. But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag. There was no door near them, and they could not have passed me without my noticing. They simply seemed to fade into the rays of th...
Aug 21, 2006•2 hr 14 min
-- Subtitle -- When the mind can wander, what is the body but a common accessory? -- Description -- Identity Crisis is a two hour audio story by New York Times Best Seller Kevin J. Anderson. -- Excerpt -- In a single week, he's already spent four days in someone else's body, a limited-term hopscotch, enduring a miserable round of the flu just so some businessman wouldn't miss his meetings. Unglamorous, maybe, but it was a way to make a living... If the man who actually owned this body had kept h...
Aug 21, 2006•2 hr 3 min
-- Subtitle -- Even greatness can be seduced by the quiet ease of obscurity. -- Description -- Rough Draft is a forty minute audio story by New York Times Best Seller Kevin J. Anderson. -- Excerpt -- Dear Mr. Coren, As a longtime fan of yours, I thought you’d appreciate seeing this novel I came across in a parallel universe. I’m a timeline hunter by profession. Perhaps you’ve heard of Alternitech? Our company uses a proprietary technology to open gateways into alternate realities. My colleagues ...
Aug 21, 2006•39 min
-- Subtitle -- In losing his pain, had Tom lost himself? -- Description -- The Storyteller's Wife is a fifty minute audio story by Eugie Foster. -- Excerpt -- What lay beneath the gray shroud was not her poor, beloved Tom. It was a large wooden manikin, crudely carved and rough. Someone had whittled the shape of his nose, jutting from the center of a face with planes and angles too sharp to have felt the touch of sandpaper. Lips leered in a splintery grin, a caricature of the soft smile she knew...
Aug 21, 2006•55 min
-- Subtitle -- Could it be that the two species, Man and Martian each bred to savagery, might coexist? -- Description -- After a Lean Winter is a sixty minute audio story by New York Times Best Seller David Farland. -- Excerpt -- There were no enemy ships on the horizon, so I watched as Pierre swept into Hidden Lodge on Titchen Creek late on a moonless night. His two sled dogs huffed and bunched their shoulders, then dug their back legs in with angry growls, hating the trail, as they crossed tha...
Aug 10, 2006•1 hr 2 min
-- Subtitle -- Eternal life comes at a price. -- Description -- The Second Rat is a forty minute audio story by David Barr Kirtley. -- Excerpt -- "Now, Mr. Rawlins. You've made remarkable amounts of money investing in the marketplace. Tell us, what's your secret?" "It's really quite simple, Dan," I said. "You see, I can rewind life." There was long pause. I heard a technician cough. "I'm sorry," Findley said finally. "What was that?" "The way you rewind a tape. I can do it in real life. I can go...
Aug 10, 2006•41 min
-- Subtitle -- A war rages. On Earth. On Baker. And in the heart of Senor Angelo Osic. -- Description -- On My Way to Paradise is a sixteen hour audiobook by New York Times Best Seller David Farland. -- Excerpt -- A dusty gray hovercraft floated to a stop in front of my booth in the feria. As its door flipped open, an emaciated woman struggled up from the shadows within and into the stabbing daylight. A strange feeling swept over me, the physical shock one feels upon recognizing an old friend wh...
Aug 10, 2006•1 hr 38 min
-- Subtitle -- A war rages. On Earth. On Baker. And in the heart of Senor Angelo Osic. -- Description -- On My Way to Paradise is a sixteen hour audiobook by New York Times Best Seller David Farland. -- Excerpt -- A dusty gray hovercraft floated to a stop in front of my booth in the feria. As its door flipped open, an emaciated woman struggled up from the shadows within and into the stabbing daylight. A strange feeling swept over me, the physical shock one feels upon recognizing an old friend wh...
Aug 10, 2006•2 hr 13 min
-- Subtitle -- A war rages. On Earth. On Baker. And in the heart of Senor Angelo Osic. -- Description -- On My Way to Paradise is a sixteen hour audiobook by New York Times Best Seller David Farland. -- Excerpt -- A dusty gray hovercraft floated to a stop in front of my booth in the feria. As its door flipped open, an emaciated woman struggled up from the shadows within and into the stabbing daylight. A strange feeling swept over me, the physical shock one feels upon recognizing an old friend wh...
Aug 10, 2006•2 hr 1 min
-- Subtitle -- He was losing his soul through his eyes. -- Description -- Primary Colors is a sixty minute audio story by Richard Raleigh. -- Excerpt -- Subtly, shade by shade, his green eyes were turning blue, and his soul was evaporating, shimmering like a mirage just out of his field of vision, dancing with the ripples of heat above the sand. Like the stark white clouds along the very fringes of the southern horizon, his soul was drifting away. He stared northward, through the heat and into t...
Aug 10, 2006•58 min
-- Subtitle -- Of Euros and years, which has the greater value? -- Description -- Expensive Gifts is a forty minute audio story by M. David Romney. -- Excerpt -- Manolo followed the light down the corridor and past the plain wooden door, into an anteroom covered in Persian carpets and a mass of exotic clutter. The worn wooden furniture was missing most of its brass studs and its brittle satin upholstery was cracking at several seams. The incense burned in a large dish centered on a low inlaid ta...
Aug 10, 2006•42 min
-- Subtitle -- There is friendship... and then there is ignorance. -- Description -- Veil of Ignorance is a twenty-five minute audio story by David Barr Kirtley, and was recommended for a Nebula Award. -- Excerpt -- Something strange is happening to me. We’re at Conrad’s vacation house, a sprawling mansion that orbits the gas giant Hades-3. (His father owns both the house and the planet.) Conrad is in the living room watching sports. His girlfriend Alyssa is standing by the mirror in the bathroo...
Aug 10, 2006•26 min
-- Subtitle -- The finest trap convinces its victim that he wishes to be caught. -- Description -- Veil of Ignorance is a twenty-five minute audio story by David Barr Kirtley, and was recommended for a Nebula Award. -- Excerpt -- Everywhere were lights, hung in the flowering branches of trees, glowing upward from the grass, blazing from every door and window. Why they should have been turned on so abruptly, after that first darkness, I do not yet know. Out of the nearest house a girl came walkin...
Aug 10, 2006•58 min
-- Subtitle -- Pain passes, but this river is forever. -- Description -- The River is Forever is a thirteen minute audio story by Edmund R. Schubert. -- Excerpt -- It’s the inevitable question people ask when someone commits suicide. They wring their hands and look to heaven, saying, “Why? Dear God, why?” Of course, now that I’m fifty-six, I realize people’s reasons for committing suicide sound terribly trite -- except of course to the individual killing himself. That doesn’t stop people from as...
Aug 10, 2006•14 min
