New Tales Told – Original Short Stories
Short Storyverses
4.9from 37 ratings
- 30
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 37
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About New Tales Told – Original Short Stories
Original short stories in the classic tradition, written and narrated by Don McDonald, author of the Civil War novel The Line Uncrossed (https://link.amazon/B0hEAa2kX) and creator of the Litreading podcast. New Tales Told brings you brand-new literary short fiction, each story complete in a single listen. Some reach back centuries. Others slip into futures that haven't quite arrived. A few will follow you out of the room. Historical fiction, speculative tales, quiet character studies and the occasional chill, told the way stories were first meant to be told: out loud, by someone who's spent four decades behind a microphone. The storyteller of old, just a tap away. New Tales Told. The classic short story, reimagined for today. If a story stays with you, a five-star rating helps other listeners find it. If it didn't… maybe just forget you listened. New Tales Told is part of Short Storyverses (https://shortstoryverses.com (https://shortstoryverses.com/)), a network of podcasts devoted to exceptional storytelling. There's Litreading for timeless classic short stories, Season's Readings for holiday tales any time of year, FRIGHTLY! for tales of terror, and Readastorus for younger listeners. Find them all wherever you get your podcasts. Narrated by veteran broadcaster and professional voice actor Don McDonald (https://donmcdonald.com (https://donmcdonald.com/)). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Short Storyverses
- Category
- arts · arts · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 30 episodes have a transcript.
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Below Ten Thousand by Don McDonald — All the Time and No Time
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Still Water by Don McDonald — Four aircraft carriers in a lake
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Autopay — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
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Below Ten Thousand by Don McDonald — All the Time and No Time
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Ray, it was me. It was always me. It was me took the money out of Dahlberg's register. Me who stuffed it in the wall of the garage. You sat in that green chair looking at the corner of the desk, and you said, Yes, sir. I stood there with my hands in my pockets, and I let you. I let you for 42 years. Louder. I'm saying it out loud. I'm saying it out loud in a 180-mile-an-hour wind in a room with no walls, and it's perfect. It is the best I have ever said it in my life. Every word landed. I could go on. I have the rest of it, too. The part about the garage wall. The part about mother. The part where I explain to you why 19 isn't young. […]
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