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Prose

by Jared I. Magee

Fiction

Journey together through innumerable worlds of fiction with Prose, a biweekly podcast series that offers up short stories of all genres and subject matters. If you like fiction of all sorts with the occasional bit of poetry or verse thrown in for good measure, join us on our adventures through the labyrinths of the human psyche and the infinite spaces of the imagination.

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  1. 211: Sonbol (The Full Novella)

    This week, join the Primrose 33 family as we dive back into the full novella Sonbol. Let's get ready for some sci-fi adventure! *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed.…

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  2. Episode 210: "Black on Brown" and "Holding the D Train"

    This week, meet a lovely, powerful empath and put forth a small act of kindness into the world of the New York City subway system. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed....

  3. Episode 209: "Them"

    This week, hear a war story. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

  4. Episode 208: "Slim Worms on Sale Now!" and "Holidaymaker"

    This week, get a second chance at youth and vitality if you'll swallow a space worm and go on a different sort of holiday. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check…

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  5. Episode 207: "Where You Come From" and "Someplace, Somewhere"

    This week, define home and try to remember where you're going and why you're here. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on...

  6. Episode 206: "The Forgetting" and "The Language of the Lesser"

    This week, both stories have a shared theme of memory. So, let's all ponder what it means to remember and what it costs to forget, shall we? *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via...

  7. Episode 205: "Charred" and "The Whimper"

    This week, let's take another foray into the world of Ash and Bone with Rowan pen Warren to see his side of the story and come visit the post-apocalypse world. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via...

  8. St. Patrick's Dayisode 2024

    Éirinn go Brách *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

  9. Episode 204: "Before The Fall" And "The Lovers Come To Town: A Tale Of Πέρσης And Ἀστερία"

    This week, let's take a foray into the world of Ash and Bone with Mynah and see what happens when a Greek city does not pay tribute to a titan of destruction. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via...

  10. Episode 203: "Borrow My Bliss" and "The Neon Halo"

    This week, speculate about the world of tomorrow with a galactic offer that is BOUND to make anyone happy and a recounting of the power of democracy and death through the lens of a futuristic traffic accident. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via...

  11. Valentines Dayisode 2024: Seven Poems

    Hello and welcome to the Prose Valentine's Day special 2024. For this holiday, we'll be diverting from Prose's, well, prose and tackling seven, count 'em, SEVEN poems about varying sorts of love. All but one poem are classics. So sit back, relax, and prepare to have some sultry lovetastic poetry...

  12. Episode 202: "Mus" and "All the Lights in Vegas"

    This week, become a hardened exterminator and bask in the vampiric glow of the lights of Las Vegas. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose...

  13. Episode 201: "Getting Ahead" and "The Food"

    This week, we return to our roots in flash fiction with a reevaluation of success and a chef's plight in Limbo. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the...

  14. Episode 200: "That Accent" and "The Wedding-Knell" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    This week feel the drift of language through isolation and attend a macabre wedding. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow…

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  15. New Year's Dayisode 2024: "Yel•Low, or One Hundred Indecisions"

    This New Year's Day 2024, contemplate indecision and cowardice. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

  16. New Year's Eveisode 2023/24

    For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the...

  17. Christmas Dayisode 2024: Thumbnail History on Twelfth Night

    Welcome to the Christmas Day special! What are those Twelve Days of Christmas about? Ever consider having a drunken rager to top off your Christmas celebrations? Join Prose this week in revisiting the Thumbnail History series in an investigation of the holiday of Twelfth Night. *** Purchase…

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  18. Christmas Eveisode 2024: The Christmas Story according to Luke

    This Christmas Eve, come enjoy the Great Mystery of Christmas from the Gospel according to Luke, our annual tradition here at Prose. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS…

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  19. Episode 199: "The Boy"

    This week, take a second look at the oft vilified Herod the Great, of Biblical fame/infamy. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website....

  20. Episode 198: "Grafting Street" Parts I and II

    This week, meet a desperate man, one of many visitors of the infamous Grafting Street. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow...

  21. Episode 197: "Simon Peter and the Roof" and "Reverend Tommy"

    This week, meet a God-fearing Southern boy who people say is slow and who just can't get a break and go from dangerous debauchery king to pious preacher. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher....

  22. Thanksgivingisode: "The Night Before Thanksgiving"

    For this Thanksgiving special, consider how much you might mean to someone in "The Night Before Thanksgiving" by Sarah Orne Jewett. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed....

  23. Episode 196: "How Green the Grass" and "New Traditions"

    This week, use ancient techniques to breach the new science of the multiverse and discover what happens when old traditions give way to new. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via...

  24. A November Special: "Memories of Mississippi in the Fall" by Henry I. Magee

    On this day special to my family, reminisce on childhood memories in the Mississippi back country. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose...

  25. Halloweenisode 2023: HP Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter" and "Lebiri Meus Volume II"

    This Halloween, explore an ancient swamp full of putrid secrets and go back to that future man's journal once again to see how we humans just never change. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher....

  26. Episode 195: "Harvest Time" and "The Chaddick"

    This week, live the bucolic dream in the crab orchards and writhe through a city as a ghastly being seduces the masses. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out…

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  27. Episode 194: "In the Season of Leaves" and "In the Season of Sticks"

    This week, fear the living trees as much as the dead and beware the sticks reaching out from the dark. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose...

  28. Episode 193: "The Fog in the All Hallows Kingdom" and "Lebiri Meus Volume I"

    This week, find yourself in an autumn kingdom as a savior and peek in on a future man's look into the boredom and intimacies of the past *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS...

  29. Episode 192: "Afloat" and "D.O.A."

    This week, pray for salvation from a ruined world and honor the nameless dead. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on...

  30. Episode 191: "Come Again Soon" and "Split"

    This week, consider some time traveling on your time off, and become a bit confused along with some poor schmuck just trying to make a coffee run. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher.…

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  31. Episode 190: "Paragon of Animals" and "Geodetic North"

    This week, revisit an intrepid space explorer from the short story "Just Earth," and try again to find the truest of truth norths. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed....

  32. Episode 189: "A Quick Steam" and "The Omega"

    This week, practice heroism in the steam room of a gym, and bear witness to the execution of a witch. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose...

  33. Episode 188: "Notes from Woolverton Mountain Reunion, May 8, 2011" and "Summus Optimium"

    This week, go find the truth about a devil of a man protecting his pretty daughters on an Arkansas mountain and experience a world where super powers alienate and oppress. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon…

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  34. Episode 187: "We are a Spasm of Civilization" by Elizabaeth Peterson and "Experience the Culture"

    This week, we focus on the elevance of perspective and reality, with one story looking at the power of viewpoint and the other asking whether adventure is even possible anymore. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon...

  35. Episode 186: "Lodestar" and "Back to Before" by James Harrington

    This week, see what happens when magic and negative emotions mix and delve into the power of memory, reminiscing, and our ability to reach back but not into the past *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via...

  36. Episode 185: Prologue from "From Sea to Shining Sea" by Cliff Heney

    This week, have your life upended by a little bit of magic. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

  37. Episode 184: "Any Given Sunday" and "So, They Stopped"

    This week, revisit a Southern Baptist church in the South on a Sunday and interact with an alien race. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose...

  38. Episode 183: "Balanced" and "Glorious, Glorious, Delusion" by Elizabeth Peterson

    This week, let's experience together the horrid honesty of online dating and commune with an artificial intelligence about its unattainable desire to be something more. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe...

  39. Episode 182: "Lady Firehair" and "A Letter to NASA, or Dreams Deferred"

    This week, observe a goddess of love bless a tortured half-dragon and witness a dream fall from the stars. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official...

  40. Episode 181: "Silence" and Jessica Yates's "Leaving"

    This week delve into two sides of a similar experience, seeking to understand the horrific power of silence and feeling the overwhelming gravity of leaving. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via…

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  41. Episode 180: Brandon Nolan's "Red Saint"

    This week, meet an assassin in a brothel and revel in her scars. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

  42. Episode 179: "The Kingdom" and HP Lovecraft's "Dagon."

    This week, defend a kingdom of the dead in the high places of the world and try your best not to see a...a thing, particularly "when the moon is gibbous and waning." *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via...

  43. Episode 178: "What's That Wandering in My Woods?: Helpful Hints Distinguishing Habits, Habitat, and Hostility in the North American Hidebehind" and "Dybbuks (דיבוק מרוח רעה ) and You: A Practical How-To Guide."

    This week, get some advice on how to avoid that dark being lurking behind and navigate away from any would-be faux paus in the face of a haunting. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher.…

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  44. Episode 177: "Around"

    This week, get a touch dark and existential while on a run. *** Everett Byram: Support for the Family of Everett Byram "Our beloved Everett left us on February 10. The first of nine siblings, Everett leaves behind one son in Virginia, his one-year-old twins, and his wife Ursula in Los Angeles,...

  45. Valentines Dayisode 2023: "Graduated Realization"

    This week, think of those times you turned left instead of turning right and changed your life. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose…

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  46. Episode 176: "2068" and "Goodnight,Sleep Tight"

    This week, peer and ponder into the quasi-distant future and relive listening to a bedtime story as an adult. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the…

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  47. Episode 175: "The 25th Hour" and "Bringing Honor"

    This week, indulge in (or endure?) an extra hour every day when the rest of the world stops and experience an orchid turn into a killer. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS...

  48. Episode 174: "Elevator Music" and "Clean Dirt"

    This week, cling to the music in your life (and past glories) and learn a little bit about getting clean with dirt. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the...

  49. New Year's Eveisode 2022/23

    For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the...

  50. Episode 173: "Riding Along" and "An Exhalation of Angels"

    This week, seek connection on a train and breathe with the cherubim. *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

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About this show

Journey together through innumerable worlds of fiction with Prose, a biweekly podcast series that offers up short stories of all genres and subject matters. If you like fiction of all sorts with the occasional bit of poetry or verse thrown in for good measure, join us on our adventures through the labyrinths of the human psyche and the infinite spaces of the imagination.

Hosted by

Jared I. Magee

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Fiction Science

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Prose have?

Prose has 440 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on June 9, 2024.

What is Prose about?

Journey together through innumerable worlds of fiction with Prose, a biweekly podcast series that offers up short stories of all genres and subject matters. If you like fiction of all sorts with the occasional bit of poetry or verse thrown in for good measure, join us on our adventures through the...

How often does Prose release new episodes?

Prose publishes weekly, based on its 440 episodes since November 2016.

Who hosts Prose?

Prose is created and hosted by Jared I. Magee.
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