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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.
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Episode 13: The Matriarch

Untold TalesSep 01, 2020

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Episode 114: The Collector

Episode 114: The Collector

The Collector: A brilliant man desperately seeks to gather strange alien artifacts.


We love our listeners, fans, patrons, and supporters ! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology updates on our website at ⁠⁠⁠untold-tales.com⁠⁠⁠ and consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.


If you'd like to purchase books, audios or merch for the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can also find them on our website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.untold-tales.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ . 


Music: A Lost Game by Hooksounds

Mar 15, 202433:41
Episode 113 : Just A Shell
Mar 01, 202429:13
Episode 112: Eradication
Feb 15, 202427:17
Episode 111 : The Traveling Salesman Part 12
Feb 03, 202438:23
Episode 110: Land of Milk and Honey
Jan 15, 202436:37
Episode 109 - The Rememberers
Jan 01, 202432:26
Episode 108 : Fast Thinking
Dec 31, 202332:39
Episode 107 : Blue Sky

Episode 107 : Blue Sky

Blue Sky: Casey, a harvester of the dead zones, has never seen the blue sky or ventured from the underground core. Few had, and even fewer returned in the nine generations since the crush, the crunch, the collapse. She returns, carrying older tech to help keep a diminishing population alive and to earn her place in the food lines. Can she survive the zone’s suddenly more active automated mechanical hunter-killers? Can she survive her boss, Mitch?

By the Untold Tales Author of Episode 46 - Night Cap and Episode 50 - Gorlak, enjoy our newest story by Marc Neuffer!

Author of six Science Fiction action adventure novels, Marc Neuffer, an avid reader of this genre since the early 1960s, uses his extensive science and engineering background to pen novels of future time and space with plausible science as a backdrop for his imaginative stories built around normal characters.

Before becoming an author, Marc spent 20 years roaming the world with the U.S. Navy as a nuclear propulsion engineer visiting sixteen countries in Europe, Down Under, Asia, Eastern Pacific, Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean.

After retiring a second time, he started writing fun-read science fiction novels.  In retirement, with nothing else left on his bucket list, he dreams of future things to come.

Amazon Author Page: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marc-Neuffer/e/B07S7M48J4⁠

We hope you enjoy this story by our own Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please consider leaving us a 5-star review and and subscribe to our audio anthology on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-tales/id1515168571 ! You can also peruse our website at untold-tales.com for LOTS of cool stuff, including our blog, merch, and more!


Music by HookSounds ⁠https://www.hooksounds.com⁠


Dec 16, 202334:42
Episode 106 : It Just Doesn't Work Like That
Dec 01, 202307:18
ANNOUNCEMENT! We won the 2023 Ampie Creator Award!
Nov 17, 202301:22
Episode 105 : The Unwishing Well

Episode 105 : The Unwishing Well

The Unwishing Well - What if you could just discard the unpleasant memories, pain, suffering, and death that shadow human existence? Could any vessel hold it all?


Another story by our very own Iron Man, Don Muchow! A lifelong advocate of immersive, dystopian SF, he believes that buried in the shadows of every dark future lies the inextinguishable spirit of hope and the yearning for a better tomorrow. When he's not imagining dystopian futures, you can catch Don running across the US or planning his next epic exploit. For more information, visit ⁠t1determined.org⁠.

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology on Apple Podcasts at ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-tales/id1515168571⁠ .


Wanna get on our email list and K.I.T. (we PROMISE we won't spam you... we hate overflowing email too!) Find the blue SUBSCRIBE button on the untold-tales.com homepage and you'll find out all of the cool upcoming stuff.


If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-1-Jeffrey-Robinson/dp/1081757892/⁠


Music by Hooksounds

Nov 15, 202323:41
Episode 104 : The Traveling Salesman Part 11

Episode 104 : The Traveling Salesman Part 11

The Traveling Salesman Part 11 - Captured by the Bentusi syndicate, Bob and Glactyl escape... sort of.

Enjoy this collaborative story in the Traveling Salesman Series by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson and Don Muchow!!

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology updates on our website at untold-tales.com and consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.

If you'd like to purchase books, audios or merch for the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can also find them on our website at ⁠www.untold-tales.com⁠ .

Music: Mysterious by Guillaume Favez

Sound Effects: Pixabay

Nov 01, 202343:10
Episode 103: Interview with Untold Tales Author Howard Loring

Episode 103: Interview with Untold Tales Author Howard Loring

Enjoy this coveted interview with lifelong artist, Howard Loring! Howard is an actor, printmaker, painter and sculptor, as well as the author of both novels and short stories. Married, he currently resides in the Southeastern United States. He can be contacted via his Facebook Fan page.

Howard Loring’s Time Traveling Adventures possess a unique application of his chosen genre, and so they defy classification. His writings, including this example, combine Hard Science Fiction, compelling Historical Drama, engaging Mystery Tales and true to life Love Stories. They are Epic Fables, simply told but also broadly applied, covering larger, universal human issues.

Stay tuned for new EVENTS in the coming year as well as games and trivia to test your knowledge of the Untold Tales Audio Anthologies!

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology on Podchaser at https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/untold-tales-1368809 and consider visiting our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/melissadeltorovoiceover !

If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-1-Jeffrey-Robinson/dp/1081757892/


You can find a Transcript of this episode at untold-tales.com or watch it closed captioning on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcEMLFE2eyyCQ6W_joTnNuwhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcEMLFE2eyyCQ6W_joTnNuw

Oct 15, 202343:21
Episode 102 : The Unknowable

Episode 102 : The Unknowable

The Unknowable - There are lines that separate what is, what is not... and what might be. There is a boundary between reality and dreams. When we lose sight of that boundary... that is madness. 


This is our third story submitted by Untold Tales author, Hal Fulton!  Fulton is a software developer in real life; he has two degrees in computer science and is the author of "The Ruby Way". His passions are reading, writing, music, art, and theatre. He lives in Austin, Texas, in a condo located directly above the center of the Earth. His hobbies include live music and passing counterfeit bills to tourists. His short stories have been rejected by some of the finest magazines in the country.

You can find more of Hal Fulton's work on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3f3S3KP 

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please consider leaving us a 5-star review and and subscribe to our audio anthology on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-tales/id1515168571 and consider visiting our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/melissadeltorovoiceover !

If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-1-Jeffrey-Robinson/dp/1081757892/

Music : Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100630

Artist: http://incompetech.com/


Music by Hooksounds

Oct 01, 202309:46
Episode 101 : [TRIGGER WARNING - Read Show Notes] Neverwas
Sep 15, 202319:21
Episode 100 : Collaboration
Sep 01, 202324:14
Episode 99: Contacts

Episode 99: Contacts

Aug 15, 202330:59
Episode 98: The Traveling Salesman Part 10
Aug 01, 202334:26
Episode 97 : Ahead of His Time
Jul 15, 202315:21
Episode 96: The Traveling Salesman Part 9
Jul 01, 202334:28
Episode 95 : Whenever

Episode 95 : Whenever

Whenver: Politics and science often clash; in this case causing serious 'tubbles'.


We hope you loved listening to our THIRD GUEST NARRATOR, here at The Untold Tales Podcast, Michael Foster!

Michael Foster is a voice actor, improviser, and podcaster from Kansas City, Missouri. He co-produces the Audio Obscura podcast as well as records voice over projects from his home studio. When the world isn't a terrible disaster movie, you can find him performing regularly with the KC Improv Company.

Please find him at his podcast https://www.audioobscurapod.com/ , on social media at @audioobscurapod - Twitter, etc, and on Patreon at patreon.com/audioobscurapod


This is also the third contribution to the podcast by Untold Tales author, Gil Schmidt. Gil introduces himself here...

"I was born. I’m told I was very little. Had to grow, but did so by tearing around the neighborhood crashing into things (trees can be tricky) or acting like each baseball game (or any game, for that matter) was a "winner take all" epic. And by reading. Plenty of short stories, particularly those in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Boy's Life." Also comic books, tons and tons of comic books, along with science fiction by the truckloads. And anything else I could find, from "Newsweek" and "Reader's Digest" to "Highlights" and the encyclopedia. Started writing at 12, have kept at it since. Not as prolific as I like, but then again, whose fault is that? I say the trees, who have a record of 11-0 against me. On the other hand, my stories have appeared in thousands of printed pages, so maybe I have evened the score."

Find Gil on his Amazon author's page at www.amazon.com/author/gilcschmidt

Find him on Facebook HERE! http://www.facebook.com/JeniusPublishers

If you'd like to purchase other books by Gil Schmidt, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... https://www.amazon.com/Gil-C.-Schmidt/e/B008A7SFAC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1484923242&sr=1-2-ent

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology and consider visiting our patreon site at www.patreon.com/melissadeltorovoiceover

Music by HookSounds https://www.hooksounds.com

Sound Effects from BBC Archive an Pixabay

 

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Jun 15, 202322:14
Episode 94 : The Traveling Salesman Part 8
Jun 01, 202334:04
Episode 93: Mom's Dream

Episode 93: Mom's Dream

Mom's Dream: A woman opts for eternal life to continue her spiritual mission, but got more than she bargained for.

Another author collaboration! We hope you enjoy this new, original story, co-written by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson and my MOTHER, Edna Del Toro! Just in time for Mother's Day 2023.

Edna Del Toro is a loving mother and friend to all who meet her. She is still caring for her own mother, who is currently 93 years young and a proud Boriqua (Puerto Rican) who encourages EVERYONE she meets to learn to speak Spanish.

Edna is beloved by everyone she meets and a devoted Nichirin Buddhist. She chants "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" in an effort to further kosen rufu (world peace) and her own happiness, as well as the happiness of everyone around her. She was a devoted teacher in the Pittsburgh Public School system her entire 40 year career. But secretly, she has a passion for writing, reading and photography. One of the BIGGEST supporters of the Untold Tales podcast, we are excited to share her creative writing talents with you. This story is based off a very vivid dream that she had one April morning in 2023. Her eldest daughter (me) encouraged her to write it down and flesh it out. Thank you, Don, for supporting my mom with your marvelous storytelling talent.

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology and consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.

If you'd like to purchase books, audios or merch for the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them on our website at ⁠www.untold-tales.com⁠ 

May 14, 202321:60
Episode 92: The Traveling Salesman Part 7
May 01, 202326:45
Episode 91 : Renewal

Episode 91 : Renewal

Renewal: All men as doomed to die eventually, but there are many different ways that people seek to face that end.


We hope you loved listening to our SECOND GUEST NARRATOR, here at The Untold Tales Podcast, Shamaan Casey!


Shamaan was born in 1996 and raised in Converse, TX. Growing up, he always watched a lot of animation, which gave him a deep appreciation for voice acting, which only grew as the years went on. Even from a young age, he had a voice that commanded the attention of others. Though not an attention seeker, he always noticed how heads would turn when he spoke, and he was often compared to James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman, even in middle school. When he chose to pursue a career in culinary arts and work as a food salesman, everyday people would tell him that I should be in radio. With years of public speaking experience thanks to his religious ministry, he finally yielded to all of the advice he had received over the years and finally embraced getting into the world of voice-over by making audiobooks. 


Now, he combines my vocal talents with his love of reading to help bring stories to life. When he's not reading, he's cooking, baking, or gaming. Whatever he's doing, he's got a story to tell. 

You can find him on the socials at:

Facebook: facebook.com/scaseycontent 

Instagram: instagram.com/scaseycontent 

Website: shamaan@shamaancasey.com 

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology and consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.

If you'd like to purchase books, audios or merch for the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them on our website at www.untold-tales.com and consider visiting our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/melissadeltorovoiceover !


If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-1-Jeffrey-Robinson/dp/1081757892/

Music: Hooksounds

Sound Effects: Pixabay



Apr 15, 202331:36
Episode 90 : The Traveling Salesman Part 6
Apr 01, 202332:12
Episode 89 : The October Country
Mar 15, 202329:27
Episode 88 : The Traveling Salesman Part 5
Mar 01, 202328:36
Episode 87 : The Stranger
Feb 15, 202313:40
Episode 86 : The Traveling Salesman Part 4
Feb 01, 202334:49
Episode 85 : Moving On
Jan 15, 202328:35
Episode 84 : Cormorant

Episode 84 : Cormorant

Cormorant : Politics makes strange bedfellows they say, but when the agents of two rivals empires meet in pursuit of a science terrorist, what is a lowly agent of the Empire to do.  Take to the skies of course.

We hope you enjoy our newest original story on the Untold Tales podcast by author Andrew J Lucas ! 

Andrew 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 distracting him, he does manage to get produce a few prime works each year.  The last few years he has had a number of short stories published in various anthologies for publishers such as Outland Entertainment, Battlefield Press, and B Cubed Press.  He also is working on a number of comic and graphic novel projects, which he is optimistic will be produced in 2022. When not working or writing he paints his war game armies and occasionally finds time to field them in battle.

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please like and subscribe to our audio anthology and consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.

If you'd like to purchase books, audios or merch for the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them on our website at www.untold-tales.com 

Music by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) from the Soundtrack Steampunk music mix - EPIC BATTLE Music NO COPYRIGHT - Dark Ambience [Creative Commons music] posted on YouTube by Unwind Station

Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 02, 202343:01
Episode 83 : Alternities
Dec 20, 202228:40
Episode 82 : An Interview with Untold Tales Author Don Muchow

Episode 82 : An Interview with Untold Tales Author Don Muchow

Enjoy this rare interview with our cross-country running, T1 phenomenon, Don Muchow! A lifelong advocate of immersive, dystopian SF, he believes that buried in the shadows of every dark future lies the inextinguishable spirit of hope and the yearning for a better tomorrow. When he's not imagining dystopian futures, you can catch Don running across the US or planning his next epic exploit. For more information, visit t1determined.org.  

Here are the books he mentions in this fun , interesting and thoughtful episode.  

8:19 - Where Don grew up and his family life 

10:25 - Don's educational background and his lifelong passion (it isn't what you might think!) 

12:41 - What Don wanted to be when he grew up 

14:43 - Who are the Scully and Mulder of Fiction? 

16:30 - What aspect of writing is most intriguing to Don? 

18:51 - Are any of the Untold Tales stories you've written TRUE or inspired by real life events? 

24:58 - DNA Memory? An explanation as it relates to storytelling 

25:38 - Kim Stanley Robinson https://www.amazon.com/Kim-Stanley-Robinson/e/B000APVJXC/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars trilogy https://amzn.to/3Ntq9Vc 

34:55 - Arrival by Ted Chiang https://amzn.to/3T0PCqm 

35:30 - Banned Books List https://www.thefire.org/first-amendment-library/special-collections/banned-challenged-books/ 

35:58 - What Don thinks about the Untold Tales Podcast (this is GOOD)

Dec 15, 202241:24
Episode 81 : The Christmas Man
Dec 01, 202225:40
Episode 80: The Traveling Salesman Part 3
Nov 15, 202229:21
Episode 79: Tesla's Time

Episode 79: Tesla's Time

Tesla's Time : Nicola Tesla is the subject of many myths and exaggerations today... But his genius was very real. What if his efforts had been applied just a little differently? Would our world be better... or worse?

Welcome to the fold our newest author, Hal Fulton!  Fulton is a software developer in real life; he has two degrees in computer science and is the author of "The Ruby Way". His passions are reading, writing, music, art, and theatre. He lives in Austin, Texas, in a condo located directly above the center of the Earth. His hobbies include live music and passing counterfeit bills to tourists. His short stories have been rejected by some of the finest magazines in the country.

You can find more of Hal Fulton's work on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3f3S3KP 

We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, please consider leaving us a 5-star review and and subscribe to our audio anthology on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-tales/id1515168571 and consider visiting our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/melissadeltorovoiceover !

If you'd like to purchase books in the Untold Tales series, which have many more stories for your reading enjoyment, you can find them here... https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-1-Jeffrey-Robinson/dp/1081757892/

Music : Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100630

Artist: http://incompetech.com/




Nov 01, 202223:32
Episode 78: An Unfortunate Perspective
Oct 15, 202225:05
Episode 77: Behold the Son of Man
Oct 01, 202232:13
Episode 76: Dinner with the Doge or Stagnation versus Directional Change

Episode 76: Dinner with the Doge or Stagnation versus Directional Change

Dinner with the Doge or Stagnation versus Directional Change: Altering the established Timeline has multiple ramifications.

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 resides in the Southeastern United States. He can be contacted via his Facebook Fan page.

Howard Loring’s Time Traveling Adventures possess a unique application of his chosen genre, and so they defy classification. His writings, including this example, combine Hard Science Fiction, compelling Historical Drama, engaging Mystery Tales and true to life Love Stories. They are Epic Fables, simply told but also broadly applied, covering larger, universal human issues.

Sep 02, 202239:45
Episode 75: The Traveling Salesman Part 2
Sep 01, 202232:12
Episode 74: Reversing Gravity
Aug 02, 202221:42
Episode 73: The Traveling Salesman Part 1
Aug 01, 202232:32
Episode 72: Life is but a Dream
Jul 02, 202220:22
Episode 71: Creating the Timepiece
Jul 01, 202233:02
Episode 70: Miranda
Jun 02, 202211:35
Episode 69: Flash Fiction

Episode 69: Flash Fiction

Jun 01, 202216:22
Episode 68: Clash of the Redheads or Methodology and Firmly Fixed Jargon

Episode 68: Clash of the Redheads or Methodology and Firmly Fixed Jargon

May 02, 202237:46
Episode 67: Perfect Memories
May 01, 202211:21
Episode 66: The Crazy Old Sandman OR General Mechanics of Warfare
Apr 02, 202217:28