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THURSDAY September 26th at 7pm: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR SORROW IN THE KINGDOM OF THE COLD

"The dolls listened in silent approval."

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR SORROW

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE COLD

A modern folktale by Seanan McGuire
- followed at 9pm by The Ravening Monster -

A maker of dolls is so much more than a simple toymaker. We craft dreams. We craft vessels. We open doorways into the Kingdom of the Cold, where frozen faces look eternally on the world, and do not yearn, and do not cry.

Sorrow is surprisingly malleable, capable of adjusting its shape to fit the box that holds it, but it fights moving from one place to another, and it has thorns. Sorrow is a bramble of the heart and a weed of the mind . . .

STORY REVIEW (spoiler alert):

https://jaffalogue.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/short-story-review-there-is-no-place-for-sorrow-in-the-kingdom-of-the-cold-by-seanan-mcguire/

addt'l story information and reviews may be found at: www.storylinkradio.com

*READ-A-LONG:

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/no-place-sorrow-kingdom-cold/

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From the book: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
Editor: Paula Guran
Author: Seanan McGuire

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

domestic violence

COMING in October: the 2024 Edition of The Bradbury Project

It's back, coming this October!

The newest Seanchai special project celebrates the work of American author Ray Bradbury. It follows the path of eight boys on an adventure to save the life of their friend on Halloween Night. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, they travel through time and space, learning about different cultures, and how each views and deals with death.

Thanks to continuing support from Linden Lab, this year's Bradbury Project will be on its own dedicated region, with content at terrain level and in skyboxes.

Tentative opening day - Friday, October 4th.

Events and activities at The Bradbury Project include:

Presentation of stories from the canon of Ray Bradbury, including "The Halloween
tree."
Dance Parties courtesy of eClipse Club & Resort
Plenty of photo ops and things to explore (clickies!)
Interactive Bradbury Library - Moundshroud's House
Other surprises that you can find when you explore.
Check out the Play Park

THURSDAY, August 29th @ 9pm: WEYR SEARCH Concludes

Weyr Search features a young woman named Lessa being recruited to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider, and the leader of a Weyr community on the fictional planet Pern. Dragonrider features the growth of Lessa's queen dragon, Ramoth, and their training together.

Analog editor John W. Campbell asked “to see dragons fighting Thread,” Pern's menace from space, and he also suggested time travel. In response, McCaffrey wrote a third story titled “Crack Dust, Black Dust”, which was not published separately, but provided crucial material for the novel.

Finn Zeddmore concludes Anne McCaffrey's story tonight (we really mean it this time) as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.

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TUESDAY, August 27th at 7pm: MARY POPPINS Concludes

It's been 60 years since Disney's industry changing motion picture was created. The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we. P.L. Travers' "practically perfect" nanny and her tales were first published in 1934. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.

Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series, concluding tonight. Presented on Stream.

Tonight:

Full Moon
Christmas Shopping
West Wind

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THURSDAY, August 22nd @ 9pm: WEYR SEARCH Concludes

Finn Zeddmore concludes Anne McCaffrey's story tonight, as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.

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Image from Andrea Stockel courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net

TUESDAY, August 20th at 7pm: MARY POPPINS Continues

P.L. Travers' "practically perfect" nanny and her tales were first published in 1934. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we.

Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series through out the month of August, continuing tonight. Presented on Stream.

Tonight:

The Bird Woman
Mrs. Corry
John and Barbara's Story

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

THURSDAY, August 15th at 9pm; WEYR SEARCH Begins!

Two components of Dragonflight were award-winning novellas published by Analog science fiction magazine. The first segment, Weyr Search, illustrated by John Schoenherr, had been the cover story for the October 1967 issue. The second segment, Dragonrider, appeared in two parts, beginning in December 1967.

Finn Zeddmore presents Anne McCaffrey's story in two parts, beginning tonight, as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

TUESDAY, August 13th: Music! and Mary Continues . . .

@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen!

Join us today for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond. Presented on Stream.

@ 7PM: MARY POPPINS Continues

First published in 1934, from the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we. Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series through out the month of August, continuing tonight. Presented on Stream.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

TUESDAY, August 6th at 7pm: Mary Poppins at Seanchai Library

Fifty years ago The Walt Disney Company created a film that would be considered one of the master works of the films made during Disney's lifetime - full of technical innovation, scenic splendor, music, and soul. It won five Academy Awards.

Sixteen years ago Caledonia Skytower read Mary Poppins as the second book series she presented at the then very young West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center - these many years and stories later, Seanchai Library.

First published in 1934, from the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.

It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!

The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we. Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series through out the month of August, beginning tonight.

This week, presented in Voice.

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THURSDAY August 1st at 7pm: Adventures of BATMAN!

"Justice is always Darkest before the Dawn"

Adventures of BATMAN!

MASKS

As if in a dream only one man can know, he tastes the dirt of the alley he crawls through, the cold taste of his own defeat. Laughter, mad and maniacal, peals from the dark brick walls. In this place, at this time, the Batman's reign is ending. And the Joker laughs.

DADDY'S GIRL

It was a solo night job. Bruce had gone to Washington to deliver a lecture and had asked me to stay here in Gotham. My job was nailing the Tomcat, a very sharp jewel thief who was hitting all the wealthy West Side mansions.

In the Batcave at Seanchai Library

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In the Batcave at Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim

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Book: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE JOKER
Editor: Martin Greenberg
Authors: Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Masks
William F. Nolan - Daddy's Girl
..

SUNDAY, June 30th @1:30pm: Even More SUNDAY with DAMON RUNYON

We conclude this special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower presenting stories from the Runyonesque Canon at "Get Lost In Stories" - Seanchai Library's showcase contribution at SL21B.

While the musical Guys & Dolls is based on the short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," it is common for derivative works based on an author's canon to pull from more than one piece even when the backbone of the plot is drawn from a single story. This is especially true of canons that are primarily short fiction, like Damon Runyon's. Both of today's stories contain lore and characters than were woven into the legendary musical production.

TODAY: Blood Pressure, and A Piece of Pie, live on stream at SL21B.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Fabulous/220/95/22

THURSDAY, June 27th at 7pm: CONTEMPORARY SCI-FI with Finn!

Finn Zeddmore is all set to take us on another contemporary Science Fiction-Fantasy adventure, taken from a wide variety of short story sources. Where will she take us this time? Only one way to find out!

TONIGHT: "Annie Without Crow" by Michael Swanwick & "Our Father" by K. J. Khan.

Join us on Seanchai Library's Story Floor for this week's new journey, presented live in Voice.

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TUESDAY, June 25th @ 7pm: Our Newbery Adventure Concludes

@ 7pm: Caledonia concludes Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.

Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance.

But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world.

Both Sessions are Live on Stream

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SUNDAY, June 23rd at 1:30pm: MORE "Sunday with Damon Runyon:

We continue this special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower present stories from the Runyonesque Canon . . . this time at SLB!

Author Damon Runyon's distinctive vernacular style is known as Runyonese: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

TODAY: Broadway Financier, and The Three Wise Guys, live on stream at SL21B.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Fabulous/220/95/22

THURSDAY, June 20th at 7pm: WTCALE?: Stories By Request

Caledonia has been reading stories live in SL for 16 years, mostly at Seanchai Library. Tonight she presents some stories as requested by those attending story sessions in the last week. What will she read? From a popular author like Neil Gaiman? Or a classic author like Nathaniel Hawthorne? Or maybe someone entirely new? Only one way to find out!

Presented live in Stream.
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

TUESDAY, June 18th: Music and an Award-Winning Story

@ Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen!

Join us for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond.

@ 7pm: Caledonia continues Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.

Both Sessions are Live on Stream

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

SUNDAY, June 16th @ 1:30pm: Sunday with Damon Runyon

Alfred Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan.

The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid".

His distinctive vernacular style is known as Runyonese: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

In a special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower present stories from the Runyonesque Canon.

TODAY: The Bloodhounds of Broadway, and A Very Honorable Guy, live on stream in the Fireside Room.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

MONDAY June 17th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - BORN CHARMER by Edward P Hughes

- From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -

BORN CHARMER

In a world where people with true magic are feared and persecuted a shepherd's son deals with the fact that he can work real spells

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

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from the anthology," Magical Wishes # 7

THURSDAY, June 13th at 7pm: Contemporary Sci-Fi with Finn

TONIGHT: "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" by R.S.A. Garcia from Uncanny (Jul/Aug 2023)

Join us on Seanchai Library's Story Floor for this week's new journey, presented live in Voice.

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TUESDAY, June 11th: Russell Eponym at The Glen, and This Year's Newbery Medal Winner Continues

@ Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen!

@ 7pm: Caledonia continues Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.

Both Sessions are Live on Stream

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

MONDAY June 10th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CORPORAL CUCKOO? by Gerald Keith

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

CORPORAL CUCKOO?

- From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -

A civilian meets an ex-Army man who looks to be in his 30s but amazingly recovered from some hideous accident. The Corporal's story is as bizarre as his appearance

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

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from the anthology, Star science Fiction No. 3

THURSDAY, June 6th @ 7pm: Contemporary Sci-Fi with Finn!

Join us on Seanchai Library's Story Floor for this week's new journey, presented live in Voice.

Image: A wall made of books. Lots of old books in a bookstore or library. Photographer: Martin Vorel - https://martinvorel.com Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

TUESDAY, June 4th : The Story Continues!

@ 7pm: Caledonia continues this year's Newbery Medal-winner: Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.

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MONDAY, June 3rd at 7pm: Selections from "Call Us What What We Carry"

Join Caledonia Skytower in The Glen as she shares selections from Amanda Gorman's published collection: "bursting with musical language and exploring themes of identity, grief, and memory, this lyric of hope and healing captures an important moment in the world’s consciousness while being utterly timeless."

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About the Poet: Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House. Learn more at https://www.theamandagorman.com/

TUESDAY, May 29th: "The Eyes & The Impossible" Begins Plus Live Music at Noon

@ Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen!

@ 7pm: June Story Month begins with Caledonia presenting this year's Newbery Medal-winner: Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.

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TUESDAY, MAY 28th: June Story Month Begins!

Story Month begins (just a little early) with the presentation of this year's Newbery Medal book, Dave Egger's adventure "The Eyes and the Impossible" with Caledonia Skytower. More to come including Science Fiction Shorts, Poetry, and Sunday afternoons with the stories of Damon Runyon.

Join is for stories at Nowhereville in June!

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TUESDAY, April 23rd at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM Returns to The Glen, Live!

Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

He's back! Join us for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

THURSDAY April 18th at 9pm: THE WALKER IN THE CEMETERY from Cthulhu's Reign

"After The Old Ones Return"

THE WALKER IN THE CEMETERY
from Cthulhu's Reign

It is a time of new horrors and utter strangeness, on a totally transformed planet where mankind is no longer the master. The arena is the beautiful Cimitero di Staglieno, the stakes are life, death, and posterity.

Ceiliuradh Glen at Seanchai Library in Second Life

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Storylink Radio's Celticworld in Opensim Kitely

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LIVE on YOUTUBE

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***WARNING***

Fair warning dearies, tonight’s little story is on the horror side..

including a bit of gore… but more psychological horror.

Think Ridley Scott, you know the Alien movies?

Ridley Scott meets Cthulhu…

Or perhaps more Ellen Ripley meets Cthulhu. Hmmm?

There is no foul language, at least not any F-bombs for sure, but like Alien you may want to consider this an R-rating for sci-fi violence/gore. There is a read-along link if you want to, you know, read-along… but caution! I have edited the story way down from the original..

there is bad language in the read-along text.

Anyway… please consider yourself duly warned.

Book: CTHULHU'S REIGN

Edited by: Darrell Schweitzer & Shandon Loring

Author: Ian Watson

THURSDAY April 18th: 6pm - 8pm: Two Hours - SCARY STORIES FOR STORMY NIGHTS CAMPOUT

"S'mores and Ghosties"

SCARY STORIES CAMPOUT

Come in your Hallowe'en jammies!

Campfire, tents, sleeping bags, candles, pizza, popcorn,

candy, flashlights, dark stormy night, and Scary Stories provided!

FREE HALLOWE'EN JAMMIES AVAILABLE AT:

Seanchai Library Downstairs in Second Life

Storylink Hallowe'en Mall in Kitely: grid.kitely.com:8002/OCTOBERWORLD/98/156/3172

Join us in Second Life

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LIVE on YOUTUBE

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Tonight's Stories

THE SHAPE OF THINGS - THE GOOD DEED

GREENHOUSE EFFECT - DEAD IN THE WATER

HAIGHT HOUSE - THE UNSEEN

FOOD AND LODGING

FOLLOWED AT 9:00pm by

Walker in the Cemetery

Book: Scary Stories for Stormy Nights
Stories: Various
Authors: Various

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