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Thursday Sept. 28th at 7-8:15pm: IN THE PINES

IN THE PINES
by Karl Edward Wagner

Pre-figuring the "THE SHINING" this Appalachian ghost/horror story is a stark portrayal of a grieving emotionally-fractured couple facing something horrific in the midst of a desolate pine forest.

Ghost story buffs will note striking similarities to the Shining that was published 3 years later.

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COMING SOON to Seanchai Library in Second Life

Seanchai Library's newest literature-based adventure will be coming to Second Life in October.

Patterned on the successful, decade old Dickens Project, this new virtual adventure will focus on Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree" and touch on some of his other works.

The Bradbury Project will be accessed from Seanchai Library's main landing point on Nowhereville, and will use an SL Experience to support teleportation and effects. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

Events will include "The Halloween Tree" presented in a three part live reading at times appropriate for week night and weekend residents. Eclipse Club & Resort will present music-dance events, and some other short works by Bradbury may also be presented.

Check back to this blog for more information in the first full week of October for more details.

THURSDAY, August 31st at 7pm: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai Concludes

Our August series concludes with an hour of stories by 20th C legendary author, Ray Bradbury.

One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, Bradbury worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream"

Bradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951).[4] Most of his best known work is speculative fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books.

Finn Zeddmore presents, live in Voice.

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TUESDAY, August 29th : AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai Continues

FINAL WEEK: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai

@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM Live in The Glen!

Join him for an hour of great originals, beloved interpretations, and a few stories - "from baroque to folk and beyond!"

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@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone

Caledonia continues author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.

Presented Live on Stream

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MONDAY, August 28th @ 7pm: AUGUST POTPOURRI "The Wind from the Sun"

FINAL WEEK: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai

Tonight we begin the final week of our August bouquet of storied adventures with The Wind from the Sun by Arthur C. Clarke.

The Wind from the Sun is the title of a 1972 collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Some of the stories originally appeared in a number of different publications. A part of the book was included in CD on board the Planetary Society's solar sail, Cosmos. The titular story is a suspenseful tale of a race using spacecraft that use only the pressure of sunlight as propulsion.

Gyro Muggins presents, Live in Voice.

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THURSDAY, August 24th: August Potpourri Continues!

@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone

Presented Live on Stream

@ 9pm: Seanchai Late Night

Finn Zeddmore with science Fiction short works from a variety of sources ranging from classic to contemporary.. What adventure will Finn take us on tonight?

Presented Live in Voice
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TUESDAY, August 22 @ 7pm: AUGUST POTPOURRI Continues - More "Tails" from James Herriot

Fayleen Bellois shares more stories from the heart-warming adventures of British Author James Herriot.

TONIGHT: "Mrs. Donovan" & "Boris and Mrs. Bond's Cat Establishment"

"James Herriot (1916–1995) was the pen name of James Alfred “Alf” Wight, an English veterinarian whose tales of veterinary practice and country life have delighted generations. Many of Herriot’s works—including All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing—became international bestsellers and have been adapted for film and television.

Herriot’s stories rely on numerous autobiographical elements taken from his life in northern England’s Yorkshire County, and they depict a simple, rustic world deeply in touch with the cycles of nature."

Presented Live in Voice.

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Thursday August 17th at 9-9:30pm: MIDNIGHT DREARY

- CTHULHU MEETS EDGAR ALLAN POE - IN SPACE! -

MIDNIGHT DREARY

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my airlock door.”

Tap - Tap - Tap

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FOLLOWING "High Seas Cthulhu" at 7pm

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TONIGHTS STORIES Book: Midnight From Beyond the Stars

Story: Midnight Dreary Author: Owl Goingback

Thursday August 17th at 7-8:15pm: HIGH SEAS CTHULHU

- SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE MEETS THE MYTHOS! -

HIGH SEAS CTHULHU

A time when tall ships roamed the oceans and creatures lurked in the dark depths.

All hands on deck, ready the cannon, and prepare to engage in terrors unknown!

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FOLLOWED at 9pm by "Midnight Dreary"
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TONIGHTS STORIES Dark Blue by Alan Dean Foster Clown Fish by Matthew Baugh

TUESDAY, August 15th: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai Continues

@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM Live in The Glen! Join him for an hour of great originals, beloved interpretations, and a few stories - "from baroque to folk and beyond!"

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@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone

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MONDAY, August 14th @ 7pm: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai Continues

We start the second week of our fragrant August bouquet of stories with a sci-fi adventure from classic author Clifford Simak.

In "Desertion," Kent Fowler is the head man in Dome No. 3 on Jupiter, and the reconnaissance teams that have been sent out, converted to "Lopers" to deal with the alien climate. Fowler and his dog decide to make the conversion and go out next as the next team to find out what has cause the previous teams to seemingly disappear completely.

Gyro Muggins presents, live in Voice.

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THURSDAY, August 10th: August PotPourri @ Seanchai Continues

@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone

Caledonia begins author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.

Presented Live on Stream

@ 9pm Seanchai Late Night

Finn Zeddmore presents late night Sci-Fi Fantasy stories from a variety of sources, both classic and contemporary. What adventure will Finn take us on this time?

Presented, Live in Voice.

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TUESDAY, August 8th @ 7pm: August PotPourri @ Seanchai Continues

@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM Live in The Glen! Join him for an hour of great originals, beloved interpretations, and a few stories - "from baroque to folk and beyond!"

@ 7pm More "Tails" from James Herriot

Fayleen Bellois returns with more stories of people and their furry companions from the the short works of James Herriot.

James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practiced for almost 50 years. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with If Only They Could Talk, first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60 million copies.

TONIGHT: Triki Woo and Mrs. Pomphrey in "A Triumph of Surgery" ... and time allowing... "Alfred: The Sweet Shop Cat."

Presented, Live in Voice.

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MONDAY, August 7th @ 7pm: August PotPourri @ Seanchai Begins!

Tonight we begin our August bouquet of storied adventures with The Hemingway Kittens by A.R. Moran.

Of the author: "This is a woman of enormous talent, whose fiction is utterly without compare among modern American masters. She sees things that no one else sees, she finds connections that no one else has ever imagined, and she makes her prose sing and vibrate with a barely constrained but firmly disciplined power, with immense feeling, with great sympathy for the all-too-human characters who people her literary worlds."

Gyro Muggins presents, Live in Voice.

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AUGUST POTPOURRI! Stories for Late Summer August 7-31

You didn't think we'd get through the summer without more stories, did you? Silly! We have science fiction adventures, tales of compassion with humans and their furry & feathered friends, a saga steeped in the folklore of Old Russia . . . they are all coming to Seanchai Library this August in a fragrant bouquet of storied journeys.

Works by: A.R. Moran, Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Arthur C. Clarke, James Herriot, Leigh Bardugo and more!

Presented by Fayleen Bellois, Finn Zeddmore, Gyro Muggins, Shandon Loring and Caledonia Skytower.

Schedule (always subject to change as life does that "happening" thing) all times slt:

Monday, August 7 @7pm : The Hemingway Kittens by A.R. Moran with Gyro Muggins

Tuesday, August 8 @7pm : More "Tails" from James Herriot with Fayleen Bellois

Thursday, August 10 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower

@9pm : Seanchai Late Night with Finn Zeddmore

Monday, August 14 @7pm : Desertion by Clifford Simak with Gyro Muggins

Tuesday, August 15 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower

Thursday, August 17 @7pm : Dark Blue by Alan Dean Foster & Clown Fish

by Matthew Baugh with Shandon Loring

@9pm : Midnight Dreary by Owl Goingback with Shandon Loring

Monday, August 21 @7pm : One Step from Earth by Harry Harrison with Gyro Muggins

Tuesday, August 22 @7pm : More "Tails" from James Herriot with Fayleen Bellois

Thursday, August 24 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower

@9pm : Seanchai Late Night with Finn Zeddmore

Monday, August 28 @7pm : A Wind from The Sun by Arthur C. Clark with Gyro Muggins

Tuesday, August 29 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower

Thursday, August 31 @7pm : Finn Presents! :TBA with Finn Zeddmore

PLUS our regular weekly events: Russell Eponym , live in The Glen (Tuesdays @ Noon); Seanchai Flicks (Wednesdays at 7pm); and our guests - Tales With Friends (Wednesdays at 6pm)

THURSDAY, June 22nd @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS Continues - Johnson

We've read a lot of early 20th and 19th C stories so far. Now we present something a little more contemporary: detective fiction author Craig Johnson.

TONIGHT: "Messenger: A Walt Longmire Story"

Sheriff Walt Longmire, his long-time friend Henry Standing Bear, and his undersheriff Victoria Moretti are returning from a fishing trip in the Bighorn Mountains when Walt receives a distress call from Crazy Woman Canyon. Forest service ranger Chuck Coon is in trouble. Walt, the Bear, and Vic arrive to find Coon and a young woman up a tree, so to speak. The unlikley duo are fending off three very real bears from the top of a Porta Potty and tell a mystifying story of another dangerous creature inside the “convenience.” When Walt, Henry, and Vic face the creature what they find may be a Messenger from the Camp of the Dead, with a very personal tie to Walt himself.

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TUESDAY, June 20th: JUNE SHORTS ~ Ursula Le Guin

Ursula K Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".

Tonight: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

Caledonia Skytower in Voice at The Firecircle.

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ALSO: Today at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen

MONDAY, June 19th at 7pm slt: JUNE SHORTS Continues ~ It's Two! Two!

Tonight Finn Zeddmore presents two stories by two different authors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism.

Tonight, something a little different: The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
Two children, Violet and Peony, construct a girl out of snow. This snow-image comes to life, however, their parents think she is a human girl and bring her inside where she promptly melts.

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name “Saki”, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

Tonight: The Storyteller

Tonight's session will be in Voice at The Firecircle.

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THIS WEEK (6.19-22) June Shorts Continues

More Stories! This week featuring short works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki (HH Munro), Ursula K Le Guin, and contemporary crime fiction author Craig Johnson. Finn Zeddmore, Caledonia Skytower, and Kayden Oconnell present these adventures, live!

We'll provide the lemonade and some "picnic-ables." Join us fireside!

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TUESDAY, June 13th at 7pm slt: JUNE SHORTS Continues ~ Grahame

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film.

Tonight: The Reluctant Dragon

Originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days, “The Reluctant Dragon” is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related 1895 collection The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat.

In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, poetry-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it.

Tonight's session will be on Stream at The Firecircle.

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ALSO: Today at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen

AND: Thursday, JUNE SHORTS features Mark Twain, presented by Kayden Oconnell

THURSDAY, June 8th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS Continues - H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction."

Tonight: The Door in the Wall

The haunting, deeply psychological story is told by Redmond, a friend of the ascendant politician Lionel Wallace, and describes Wallace’s strange encounters with a door to a garden which seems to find him at intervals throughout his life, without his being able to locate it on his own. He once confided in Redmond that he was concerned that this obsession with the door in the wall was becoming a great distraction to his career, consuming his thoughts and dreams.

Tonight's session will be on Stream at The Firecircle.

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TUESDAY, June 6th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS - Kipling "Oh Best Beloved"

Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Books (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). ] His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Caledonia continues our special series with selections from Kipling's beloved "Just So Stories" including "The Elephant's Child" and more.

Tonight's session will be on Stream in The Glen.

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ALSO: Catch Russell Eponym's weekly hour of music and stories in The Glen at Noon today!

MONDAY, June 5th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS ~ Roald Dahl at War

Roald Dahl was a British popular author of children's literature and short stories, a poet, and wartime fighter ace. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.

Tonight Kayden and Caledonia share a different side of Dahl from the popular author of "James & The Giant Peach" and the Wonka books. In the short stories "Shot Down Over Libya" and "Beware of the Dog" Dahl explores the World War II experience.

Learn more ab out this author at https://roalddahl.com/

Tonight's session will be in SL Voice at the Firecircle.

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Coming to Seanchai Library starting June 5th: JUNE SHORTS!

Yeah! It's time to dust off your sandals, flip-flops, and freshen up those shorts and sun-dresses for the imminent months of sunshine and warmth.

We've taken shorts on in a different way. We've combed through lists of "the best" or "the greatest" short stories in the English language (one list was 500 entries long! Seriously!). We've created a list of our own, and included some short stories that are "our favorites". We'll be sharing them live at the various outdoor venues at our #SecondLife home on Nowhereville.

We'll provide the lemonade and some "picnic-ables." Join us fireside!

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Thursday May 4th - 6pm - 8pm SLT - STAR WARS DANCE & Costume Contest

- Thursday May 4th - 6pm - 8pm SLT -

STAR WARS DANCE &

Costume Contest

With exclusively Star Wars Tunes & Live Rebel DJ!

-- Best Costume Contest by popular vote!! --

!!FOUR PRIZES TO BE AWARDED!!

BEST MALE & FEMALE AVATARS IN SECOND LIFE & IN OPENSIM

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TUESDAY, April 25th at Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen!

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.

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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TUESDAY, April 18th at Noon: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen

Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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MONDAY April 17th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - GOLDEN COMPASS

- Exciting Book Series with Gyro Muggins -

GOLDEN COMPASS

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

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

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Book: The Golden Compass

Author: Philip Pullman

THURSDAY April 13th at 9pm: PSYCHO! - Late Night Horror

LATE NIGHT HORROR!

PSYCHO!

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane, on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates, a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

[tonight we present the abridged complete story of this horror masterpiece]

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Book: Psycho!

Authors:Robert Bloch

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