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Untold Tales
by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson and Melissa Del Toro Schaffner
Authored and led by Dr. J. A. Robinson, technologist and author, and narrated by Melissa Del Toro Schaffner, The UNTOLD TALES Audio Anthologies is a collection of original science fiction short stories of the highest caliber, perfect for your commute or unexpected downtimes. These bite-sized audio dramas come in different flavors and highlight the works of new authors. Victorian Sci-Fi, parallel realities, cautionary tales, horror, time travel - each episode of UNTOLD TALES is an independent short story drenched in the luscious promises of danger, technology, love, hope, discovery, & mystery.
Episodes
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Episode 200 : Final Episode and Community Thank You's
Please visit https://www.untold-tales.com/ to listen to our stories, read the blog, and learn more about the narrators and authors mentioned in this episode. Find Jeff’s Books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jeffrey-Robinson/author/B07V2XXJB8 Find the Untold Tales Bookstore Facebook…
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Episode 199: Kursk
Kursk - A very personal story about being stuck in the what might have been... Don Muchow is a major contributing Author on the Untold Tales podcast. He lives and works in the suburbs of Dallas, TX, where he is an advocate for health, longevity and people thriving with T1 Diabetes. A lifelong...
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Episode 198 : Resource Management
Resource Management - A Chief Financial Officer notices that $20 billion has gone missing from his corporation's accounting system. Enjoy this intriguing and thought-provoking story from Untold Tales Author Philip Cahill! He is a retired accounting academic who writes science fiction and...
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Episode 197: Double Hit
Double Hit - Managing the time continuum is risky business. Chris Morton's stories have been described as being in the genres of slacker lit, sci-fi lit, sci-fi psyche, magical realism, and avant-garde. He is the author of three novels, six novellas, and over thirty short stories. An English...
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Episode 196 : Living the Dream
What is a dream between mother and daughter? Some connections span the consciousness of space and time. Another thought-provoking story by Untold Tales Author Matilda Scotney! When her brain is not off on a quest of imaginings somewhere out in the galaxy with her trusty chihuahua sidekick Oggie…
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Episode 195 : The End of the Line
Andrew J Lucas has contributed to books published by FASA, Dream Pod Nine, White Wolf Games, Rebel Minis and Atlas Games among others. He has twelve solo books for various RPG publishers and while his creative output is often blunted by his day job and the enthusiasm of his young daughter for...
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Episode 194 : Water’s Edge
Water’s Edge - Two kids meet in the same spot, in different dimensions. Another beautiful story by our own Untold Tales Author Matilda Scotney. When her brain is not off on a quest of imaginings somewhere out in the galaxy with her trusty chihuahua sidekick Oggie, it is attached to an ageing...
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Episode 193 : The Light of Remembered Suns
"Visiting his dying father in the hospital, a man makes a chance stop at an ice cream store and his life changes forever." From the author of Buddhas of the Past, The Light of Remembered Suns ventures into the Bradbury-esque autumn days, starry nights, and memories of what might have been. Enjoy...
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Episode 192 : Rebuttal
Andrew J Lucas has contributed to books published by FASA, Dream Pod Nine, White Wolf Games, Rebel Minis and Atlas Games among others. He has twelve solo books for various RPG publishers and while his creative output is often blunted by his day job and the enthusiasm of his young daughter for...
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Episode 191 : Contact
Contact: What if space travel and aliens are not like we imagined? Philip Cahill is a retired accounting academic living in Caen, France. In 2020 he published his first novel ‘Noystria’. This is a story about human/android relationships in 26th century Normandy. We love our listeners, fans and...
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Episode 190 - Infant Repo
Infant Repo: In Infant Repo, government organisation Herauder flirt to tame alien beast 1NK20 – but when wizened specialist soldier Dad is tasked with offering 1NK20 a morally questionable payload, he and a band of likewise renegades turn the tide. Aeronwy Withers and Marcus Yeatman-Crouch are...
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Episode 189 - The Best of All Worlds
The Best of All Worlds: In a world where children make their own worlds to live in, one person finds that unless they act, nightmarish worlds can have dire consequences for those they love. Rani Jayakumar lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, teaching music and mindfulness, and...
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Episode 188 - Charon
Charon - When Daniel gets knocked out during a fishing trip with a friend, he wakes to find he's the sole passenger. We love our authors! Welcome Katie Jordan! When Katie isn’t reading or writing thrillers, she’s devouring crab puffs, hunting for the lobster truck, or snuggling in for family…
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Episode 187 - Cornucopia
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had four hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and six books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he manages a posse of eight review editors. He’s also…
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Episode 186 - Two Times I Looked Through the Eye of the Universe,
A new story by Yaseem Amro Yasmeen Amro is a Jordanian-American-Palestinian writer currently living in Jordan. She is a finalist for the Ron L Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future. She enjoys beading, baking, and writing.
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Episode 185 - The Bump
The Bump: A creepy little story fit for Halloween! Meet Caryn Larrinaga, our newest Untold Tales Author. Thank you Caryn and Tony Pham of TKMV here in Phoenix, AZ for the opportunity to debut my 5 year old Daughter, Indi, as "the boy" and the "girl in pigtails" and my nieces Ava (5) and Coco (3)…
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Episode 184 - Things That Go Bump In The Night
Things That Go Bump In The Night: When times get tough, things can get scary. When things get strange, you often find that you can only count on yourself. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology and consider visiting…
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Episode 183 - A Voice in the Wilderness
The Voice in the Wilderness: What if there really was a god, and she was a manipulative, egotistical bully? This story is written by Don Muchow, the first man to complete a cross-country run from Disneyland to Disney World! Check out the press on his latest accomplishment! He's been featured in...
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Episode 182 - Entangles
Entangles: A boy and girl meet across time. Enjoy this newest story by Mark W. Tiedemann! Mark has been writing since childhood, publishing since 1990, and has 13 novels and 70 short stories to his credit. His newest novel is not SF (or is it?): Granger's Crossing, from Blank Slate Press. He...
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Episode 181 - Fathers Day - encore
Father's Day: A man gives his ailing father a marvelous gift, but finds that he has forgotten something very important. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at http://untold-tales.com If you'd like to purchase books...
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Episode 180 - Shattered Sky - encore
Shattered Sky: In a fallen dystopian world where citizens pay for air and water, a heartbroken older sister perseveres in rescuing her younger sister from a human trafficking ring and realizes that the powerlessness of her past is what fuels the redemption of her future. This short story is the...
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Episode 179 - Nice Dreams
An ice cream truck from a realm somewhere between memory and fantasy comes to the neihborhood delivering ice cream and making wishes come true. Another original story by Don Muchow
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Episode 178 - The Philosophers Stone - encore
The Philosopher's Stone: Miraculous discoveries often occur quite unexpectedly. But sometimes it turns out that they should not have occurred at all. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at http://untold-tales.com…
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Episode 177 - Quantum Futures
Predicting the future can be tricky, especially when you want to change it. Another original story by Dr. Jeffrey A Robinson.
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Episode 176 - Adventures in Virtual Reality - encore
Adventures in Virtual Reality: New technologies often have marvelous benefits, but there can be a downside to new tech as well. Sadly, there always seems to be a way to misuse new inventions. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our...
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Episode 175 - Meltdown
Meltdown: The loss of a large corporate dataverse remains a mystery fifty years later but people are still asking questions about how it could have happened. Philip Cahill is a retired accounting academic living in Caen, France. In 2020 he published his first novel ‘Noystria’. This is a story…
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Episode 174 - Timeless Stray - encore
ANOTHER Victorian sci-fi episode by Gil Schmidt Timeless Stray: Investigators in Victorian England are hired to find out whether a fortune teller is real or if she is a charlatan. In any case, sometimes the future should just be left alone. Gil introduces himself here... "I was born. I’m told I…
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Episode 173 - The Prognosis
In the future, medicine is very comprehensive and very accurate. Another story by Dr. Jeffrey A Robinson, based on a idea by Joseph A. Shiller.
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Episode 172 - Destiny's Doorstep - encore
Destiny's Doorstep: A peaceful, backward-seeming civilization living on an Eden-like planet near a distant wormhole receives existential threats from an unwelcome Earth. But all is not as it appears. This is a story by one of our Untold Tales authors, Don Muchow. Don lives and works in the…
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Episode 171 - How It All Started or a Short History of Dogs
How It All Started or a Short History of Dogs Changing the flow of History is is sometimes possible by just making small suggestions. A lifelong artist, Howard Loring is an actor, printmaker, painter and sculptor, as well as the author of both novels and short stories. Married, he currently…
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Episode 170 - The Gift of memory - encore
The Gift of Memory: Forgetting things is natural and can be sometimes be problematic. Not forgetting things, however, has far more serious consequences. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at…
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Episode 169 - Hiding in Plain Sight
Can true Machine Intelligence be created? In this story several computer experts ask that question with surprizing results.
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Episode 168 - Springtime on Mars - encore
Springtime on Mars: There are always people who are drawn to the edge or things and those who venture ahead to explore the unknown. But that edge is always moving further away. Another original story by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard,...
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Episode 167 - Code Red
Sometimes when things go wrong... they go VERY wrong. This is the newest contribution by our Untold Tales author, Chris Morton! Chris Morton's stories have been described as being in the genres of slacker lit, sci-fi lit, sci-fi psyche, magical realism and avant-garde. He is the author of three...
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Episode 166 - The Buddhas of the Past - encore
The Buddhas of the Past: Sometimes we forget things as we get old. But what if as we forgot them, those things actually ceased to be? Another favorite story by Don Muchow. Don lives and works in the suburbs of Dallas, TX, where he is currently training to finish his "bucket list" run across the...
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Episode 165 - Happy Deathday
A boy and his grandfather talk and share a special moment Another original story by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have...
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Episode 164 - Conversations with an Uncle on the Occasion of His Passing
Conversations With an Uncle on The Occasion of His Passing: A young man speeds to the side of his ailing uncle 'to observe his passing.' What he experiences, however, is more than he bargained for. Another wonderful story by Don Muchow. For more information, visit t1determined.org. We love our...
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Episode 163 - Atoms
A man working in an isolated outpost has a unique experience with new technology. Another short story by Chris Morton. Chris's stories have been described as being in the genres of slacker lit, sci-fi lit, sci-fi psyche, magical realism and avant-garde. He is the author of three novels, six...
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Episode 162 - The Vetting - Encore
The Vetting: The tests required to let you travel to distant alien worlds is harder than one would expect and some of the tests aren't what you think they are. Another original story by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and...
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Episode 161 - Long Gone
A crew of interstellar explorers return to Earth after being away for centuries to find it totally destroyed. Another original short story by Dr. Jeffrey A Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at...
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Episode 160 - The Edge - encore
The Edge: A story about a man trapped many light years away from home who is found and befriended by an alien far older than the universe itself. Another original short story by Dr. Jeffrey A Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe…
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Episode 159 : Golddigger
Golddigger : When "the other woman" is excluded from her dead lover's will, she goes to extreme lengths to get what she believes she is owed. Our newest author, Taija Morgan, is a Canadian horror, thriller, and suspense author with short stories and non-fiction articles published in various...
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Episode 158 - A Failure to Communicate - Encore
A Failure To Communicate: An alien visits the Earth and thinks humans are unintelligent bugs. The humans think the alien is an unintelligent beast. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology If you'd like to purchase…
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Episode 157 - Ghostwriter
A writer is compelled to write finish a book by a famous dead author. Another original short story by Dr. Jeffrey A Robinson We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at http://www.untold-tales.com If you'd like to...
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Episode 156: False Dawn - Encore
False Dawn: A scientist predicts the dawning of a new age of achievement promising a miraculous world, only to find that his predictions are very, very wrong. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at...
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Episode 155 - The Fifth Angel
A traveler from the far future returns to Earth only to unexpectedly discover a dark and desolate world and the fate of mankind.
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Episode 154: Timely Warning - Encore
Timely Warning: Thanks to a miracle of science, they got the warning in time. But their salvation wasn’t what they thought it would be. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology If you'd like to purchase books in the...
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Episode 153 - Reset
Reset - A story about an alien civilization and time travel gone wrong We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology at http://www.untold-tales.com If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have...
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Episode 152 - Eugene Fitch Ware - Encore
Science Fiction Poetry by Eugene Fitch Ware: Eugene F. Ware was a pioneer, a soldier, lawyer and Poet. The follow poems were written just after the Civil War under the pen name of “Ironquill” and are amazing for their subject matter and their era. Indeed, they remain quite exceptional even for...
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Episode 151 - The Impersonators
A story about Artificial Intelligences that have their own agendas, but who need human beings to make them real.
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Authored and led by Dr. J. A. Robinson, technologist and author, and narrated by Melissa Del Toro Schaffner, The UNTOLD TALES Audio Anthologies is a collection of original science fiction short stories of the highest caliber, perfect for your commute or unexpected downtimes. These bite-sized audio dramas come in different flavors and highlight the works of new authors. Victorian Sci-Fi, parallel realities, cautionary tales, horror, time travel - each episode of UNTOLD TALES is an independent short story drenched in the luscious promises of danger, technology, love, hope, discovery, & mystery.
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Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson and Melissa Del Toro Schaffner
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