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Penny Magic
by Penny Magic Press
Listen for fictionalized short stories that bring magic into your everyday life. We tell stories of things truthful yet unreal, transcendent yet simple...stories of broken bones and growing up, of sticky candy and new worlds, flash floods and mermaids, lost coins and the first step of a journey.
Episodes
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Vol. 4, Story 10: The Monarch Wife
"It was the summer and no one had seen the monarchs for fifty years." Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or...
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Vol. 4, Story 9: Labyrinth
“She was a genius in her time, born at the right moment to the right parents.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or…
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Vol. 4, Story 8: All the Khans Before Me
“When I go to sleep, I see Genghis Khan’s ghost.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our...
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Vol. 4, Story 7: Solid, Liquid, Robot
“She was eighteen when she met him, nineteen when she fell in love with him, and twenty when they last spoke.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also...
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Vol. 4, Story 6: Phenomenal Noumena
“George St. George, PhD, was quite convinced that his house wasn’t real.” Written by Matt Mills, narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or...
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Vol. 4, Story 5: A Biography of Ghosts
“I am a biographer of ghosts, the one who watches what was once here.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to…
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Vol. 4, Story 4: Beneath the Waters & All That Live in Them
“It is a beautiful night on that chimera shore.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our...
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Vol. 4, Story 3: The Harbor
“It was all over the news that week: the story of the art thief striking in their very own city.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on...
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Vol. 4, Story 2: Alyssa Marie & the Apple Tree
“Alyssa Marie was four years and three months old when they moved into the house on Tricklewood Lane.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You…
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Vol. 4, Story 1: Long Live the Legends
“Away from the town, among the cliffs that circled the lake, a woman made her way up to the old temple of stone.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can...
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Vol. 3, Story 10: White Vida
“The worst part of the storm was that she couldn’t see her friend’s face anymore.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or...
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Vol. 3, Story 9: The Oyster Girl
“It was on the prince’s first voyage out, when he was only ten years old, that he first saw the oyster girl.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects....
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Vol. 3, Story 8: The Things We Know But Never Say
“This was the best cargo in months. It didn’t smell or leak, and it wasn’t illegal. It might not even be worth it for pirates to steal.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about...
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Vol. 3, Story 7: The Star Map
“It was a hot, dry afternoon when Christina’s husband did that extraordinary thing, that thing no one else in Rustvale had done for as long as anyone could remember: he left.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter…
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Vol. 3, Story 6: Daytime Moon
“A crescent moon stamped the night sky warily, now more obvious in the dark than it had been earlier in the day when it was just an opal sliver on a pale blue sheet.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret...
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Vol. 3, Story 5: Mervin Q. Peevler & the Monkeywrench Express
“Everybody knew that if you wanted unicorn blood, you had to go see Mervin Q. Peevler.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow…
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Vol. 3, Story 4: That Always Happens
“It is our third night in Asia, and I make a friend at the bar the way friends are made here—one foreigner sees another and starts talking.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about...
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Vol. 3, Story 3: The Memory Thief
“Many years ago, in the city of Holem, which is across the yawning Taw, there was a man with a very peculiar skill: he could remove memories.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and…
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Vol. 3, Story 2: The Tourists
“They came this far so that they could see the mountain, and their first thought, both of them, was how small it looked.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects.…
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Vol. 3, Story 1: Down Where the Dead Play Their Lutes
“When Hop was little, her Uncle Crumble would play the lute and sing a lot of nonsense about the ocean.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You...
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Penny Magic Classic: The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "The criminal could not know out of which door would come the lady; he opened either he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married." Written by Frank R. Stockton…
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Penny Magic Classic: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple" Written by Virginia Woolf and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read original...
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Penny Magic Classic: The Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit
This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "And then, quite suddenly, Nurse came in and said, 'Master Lionel, dear, they've come to fetch you to go and be King.'" Written by E. Nesbit and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read original stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up…
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Special Announcement: Penny Magic is coming to print!
For a limited time, you can pre-order Vol. 1: Fairytales for Grown-Ups as a print book on Kickstarter. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our...
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Vol. 2, Story 10: Back to Underfoot
“When Andrew was five, he discovered a magical world, as children often do.” Written by Matt & Natalie Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us...
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Vol. 2, Story 9: Sunburn
“Sharing a booth is the most personal thing in the world, aside from sharing a kiss or a mausoleum.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us...
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Vol. 2, Story 8: The Death of Peter Stonewood
“Even now, all these years later, I can picture his face. Most of all, I remember how we killed him.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can...
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Vol. 2, Story 7: Raincatcher
“It was the second spring storm, and the city had been waiting for it for days.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or...
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Vol. 2, Story 6: The Fable Hotel
“It was the summer of ’98 when all the magical creatures of the famous Fable Hotel went on strike.” Written by Matt Mills and directed by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can...
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Vol. 2, Story 5: The Winter War
"The worst part of the Winter War was watching the old people fight it." Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to...
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Vol. 2, Story 4: The Animal Sculptors
“The land of Filigri was like every other land, except for one thing: Filigri had no animals.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also...
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Vol. 2, Story 3: The Stairs
“It was just past midnight when Felicia stepped out of her second floor window and into the sky beyond it. This was the night she had been waiting for.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay...
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Vol. 2, Story 2: We Keep the Lamps Lit
“At the edge of the town of Moorwick was the lake. There was always mist on the lake. But every once in a while, on a clear night when the moon was full, the mist parted and you could see the island.” Written by Matt Mills, narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign…
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Vol. 2, Story 1: Summer of War
“Thomas sat on a window ledge above the water wheel, and from his perch, stories drifted up to him, and he learned everything that he and his sister weren’t supposed to know about the battle in the skies…” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for...
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Introducing Vol. 2: A World of Our Own
For ten weeks, start exploring places you’ve never been to before: guard the edge of an ominous lake, watch a battle in the night sky, discover a world that was always there, just out of sight, tucked away in a sock drawer. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to...
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A Penny Magic Christmas Special + Announcement
Three very short wintery tales, written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 10: One Good Storm
“Etta stood on her porch with her hands in her pockets. Behind the house, clouds rumbled with their burden of rain. No amount of wind could blow the storm past them tonight. It simmered above her, waiting to boil and break.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on...
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Vol. 1, Story 9: The Time-Taster
“Scott and Erin are moving. Their boxes are arranged on the floor, dishes and silverware swaddled in bubble-wrap, clothes folded in laundry baskets. Nothing is where it should be anymore.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on...
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Vol. 1, Story 8: You Should Be Alive
“Caroline flinched as the needle went into her arm.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 7: Rain Bones
“It was one of the dry years, the kind of year where the sun sucks even the dew out of the earth through a straw.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are...
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Vol. 1, Story 6: An Imaginary Thing
“Vera was only seven when she heard the word for the first time and when, for the first time, she said it aloud.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 5: The Tranquility Shoppe
“At the moment of Yuan Yuan’s birth, she was baptized into noise.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 4: On the Long Road
“In Sylvia’s village, all roads leading away eventually led back again.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 3: Hector & the Mermaid
"There was something foreign about her, a slightly fishy smell, and when she sat down the woman next to her wrinkled her nose. But Hector was intrigued. In fact, he thought she was quite beautiful." Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Stevie Martinson. Read these stories on pennymagic.co.…
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Vol. 1, Story 2: Claudia & Diego
"When Diego married his second wife, they were both certain that this was the end." Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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Vol. 1, Story 1: What the Sparrows Did
“You probably remember, when you were a child, asking your father how the light came into the light bulb…” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Stevie Martinson. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Listen for fictionalized short stories that bring magic into your everyday life. We tell stories of things truthful yet unreal, transcendent yet simple...stories of broken bones and growing up, of sticky candy and new worlds, flash floods and mermaids, lost coins and the first step of a journey.
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Penny Magic currently has 46 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Listen for fictionalized short stories that bring magic into your everyday life. We tell stories of things truthful yet unreal, transcendent yet simple...stories of broken bones and growing up, of sticky candy and new worlds, flash floods and mermaids, lost coins and the first step of a journey.
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Penny Magic is created and hosted by Penny Magic Press.
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