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The SHORT STORY TODAY podcast features the best of today's emerging short story writers. Each episode contains a professional audiobook performance of a story and an author interview. 

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Episode #42 - Stanley Stocker: "The List"

Washington, DC area author Stanley Stocker knew he wanted to be a lawyer from the age of ten. What he discovered as an adult was a love for writing fi...

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Episode #41 - Emily Mirengoff: "It Could Be Worse Than California"

Washington, DC area author Emily Mirengoff loves the unreliable narrator.  Her stories with first person narratives feature the kinds of interior mono...

Sunday, February 12, 2023 A Valentine's Day Micro Fiction Sampler

We're celebrating Valentine's Day with a micro fiction sampler of love stories. They're not your grandma's love stories, however. These are of the lit...

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Episode #40 - Pamela Painter: "Deck"

Author Pamela Painter is one of the most respected writers and educators in the world of short fiction. Her workbook "What If? Writing Exercises ...

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 Episode #39 - Evan Morgan Williams: "A House Call"

Portland, Oregon author Evan Morgan Williams gives a mini-master class on writing noir literary fiction. It's the genre he's chosen for his ...

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Episode #38 - Will Musgrove: Selected Flash Stories

In his highly original flash fiction, Iowa author Will Musgrove applies his own unique brand of twisted logic to scenes from daily life. Zoo cages bec...

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Episode #37 - Melissa Llanes Brownlee: Selected Flash Fiction

Hawaiian author Melissa Llanes Brownlee explains life on the islands as only an indigenous person who was born and raised there can. In her fiction, H...

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 Episode #36 - K.B. Carle: "That Feeling of Life"

Author K.B. Carle lives and writes just on the edge of Philadelphia. She has built a remarkable body of work, creating some of the most memorable char...

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 Episode #35 - Stephanie Parent: "Deer, Girl"

Baltimore, MD author Stephanie Parent reveals some of the mysteries of her lived experience as a submissive in a commercial BDSM dungeon while living ...

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Episode #34 - Farah Ali: "Bulletproof Bus"

Pakistani author Farah Ali lives with her family in Dubai, but her ties to her childhood home of Karachi run deep. It's often the background against w...

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 Episode #33 - First Annual Holiday Episode!

We celebrate the holidays with a cavalcade of holiday-themed short stories, written by some of the best contemporary writers in the field. Six profess...

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Episode #32 - Cheryl Pappas: "This Violent and Cherished Earth"

In writing speculative fiction, Massachusetts author Cheryl Pappas sees a responsibility "to acknowledge the strange in everything."  The co...

About The Show

A weekly podcast hosted by Jon DiSavino. It celebrates the enduring and compact literary form known as - you guessed it - the short story. But more importantly, it gives listeners an opportunity to hear the work of some of the best emerging writers of today. Each episode begins with an interview with the week's guest author, and ends with a professional audiobook production of a story by that author.

Jon DiSavino is an actor, stage director and voice artist. In the last few years he has begun producing and narrating audiobooks. His most recent release is a holiday book for young audiences: The Toe Mittens Christmas by Ross D. Clay. You can listen to a sample on the Audible.com website: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Toe-Mittens-Christmas-Audiobook/B0BRQZKLYT
 
For more information, please visit his website: https://www.jondisavino.com

Music used on the podcast is by C. S. Fuqua : https://csfuqua.bandcamp.com/ and Matt Hawkins: https://matthawkinssingingsomesongs.bandcamp.com/

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