Nil Desperandum

Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain. Part 2 of 2. Narrated by Charlie White, who you can find online at http://www.cewtwo.com. Learn about, and purchase, the full manuscript of Mark Twain’s long-awaited autobiography at http://www.thisismarktwain.com/ I had been having considerable trouble with my wings. The day after I helped the choir I made [...]

Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain. Part 1 of 2. Narrated by Charlie White. Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot [...]

An Occidental Book of the Dead, by J. Michael Shell. Part 3. Consciousness grabbed Malcolm and shook, causing him to jump to his feet. When he did, he noticed he was standing, once again, on that endless, grassy plain. “You’ve got to be kidding,” he said out loud. “Damn all this grass.” As soon as [...]

An Occidental Book of the Dead, by J. Michael Shell. Part 2. He wasn’t sure if his feet were quite touching that so-green grass. Aimed straight and grim, Malcolm was stretching whatever sinew it was he wore to put distance, rapidly, between himself and Aminae’s forest. He was aware at a gut level…no, at a [...]

An Occidental Book of the Dead, by J. Michael Shell. This is part one of three. Malcolm Stark kept an appointment with his soul to meet in a dream, and died in his sleep. As they walked, arms around shoulders, through that twilit place, his soul let something silver fall from its hand, and left [...]

Markheim, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read by Charles McFall of The Bear Crawling Nation. “Yes,” said the dealer, “our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge. Some are dishonest,” and here he held up the candle, so that the light fell strongly on [...]

His Garden, original fiction by Edward McDermott. Narrated by Ken Stoeffler, host of The Flatus Show. I was in grade five when I first met Mr. Hamilton. That was the year my father died and my mother had to start working again. That was the year that Mike Todd and his friends decided to make [...]

At long last, the very first issue of Nil Desperandum! We present the classic short story Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce. Narrated by Charlie White. A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the [...]

Nil Desperandum. It’s about truth, life, and the human condition. Fiction from the Bear Crawling Nation. Coming to an audio player near you, June, 2010.