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Hey ya'll!

Last months release of "Country Roads" was just the bee's elbows and I'm excited to release another music video for NEXT month, but for THIS month, I thought we'd do another narration because I like doing them so much and why the heck not? I thought we'd make this narration another poll opportunity since there are quite a few more of you here than there were last go-round. 

Drop a suggestion for an audio spoken word type thing in the comments below and we'll get to compiling and tabulating the results for a Proper Patron Poll which will be coming tomorrow. Ready to make your voice heard? Go! 

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beelypuff

The Tell-Tale Heart

CortisALL

he's already read that

Hunter

He already did that one. Sorry. :/

Hunter

THE BLACK CAT - Edgar Allan Poe its long, and a bit creepy. OR HORSE IN THE SKY - Ambroise Bierce

Veronika Troll

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Åse M Bruun Lagnestål

Doris Lessing... She has written something about cats... 🐈 I don’t remember the title. 🤔

Alex King

Maybe something from Stephen King?

Wendy Bishop

The Masque of the Red Death or The Fall of the House of Usher

Tracie Schlaak

The Scarlet Ibis, Flowers for Algernon

james calvin daniels

I was actually going to suggest The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe is so overlooked.

Cindy Barber

That was going to be my suggestion this time around, glad I'm not the only one. 🙂

JulieAnn Spartz

Geoff you could read the phone book, and I would support you and love every word or name.

Katie D

I second The Black Cat, was just coming to suggest that 😊

Alaethea (Ali)

A sleep or meditation reading? But honestly I'd listen to the tax code or the phone book.

Carole Robinson

I’m with @alaethea (Ali) just talk to me anything will do 😊

Rio

Yay, narrations are wonderful! One of mine got picked last time, so I'm gonna let it to other folks to give suggestions this round... and I've seen some I'd make already above anyways. 😄

Ivory Anne

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 🤭

Leah Hanson

Exhalation by Ted Chiang Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang

Stacey Post

I am going to continue to advocate for Ray Bradbury's "Usher II". Bradbury is excellent no matter which story it is, but I love the juxtaposition of one of the most creative artists around reading a story about a world where art and creativity have been outlawed.

Stacey Post

I'm not saying "Dorian" wouldn't be great, but that's a full-on novel. If you want Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost" might be interesting.

Collin K.

I'd love to hear you sing "Take It Easy" by the Eagles! Such a great song to vibe to :D

Gretchen G

"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot. "April is the cruelest month. . ." "Bisclavret." This is a medieval werewolf story from the 1100s.

Christina Dowdican

I honestly don't know a lot of the suggestions, i do know poe's work & and always thought it was boring until i heard your earlier readings of his and loved them. I also like the canterbury ghost & conon arthur doyle's sherlock holmes. But i would love anything you read. So i will go with the majority vote. 😊❤️

Dominique

The Gift of the Magi from O. Henry

Tara Congo

I'm going to throw my suggestion from last time in - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. It's so good!

Cynthia Ross

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, but it’s so short that would be like a one minute vid. Maybe a mini collection of Frost poetry? Also: Aesop’s Fables would be good. They are timeless. And most of them are fairly short plus they have the morals. I don’t know that too many people know them anymore - I recently had to explain to someone where the expression “sour grapes” came from. It’s from the Aesop fable “The Fox and the Grapes”. Like, those stores are part of our language now.

Kayo

Ooohh... I second the meditation reading. I’m leaning towards a stress/anxiety or grief meditation. I also second The Road Less Traveled, by Robert Frost.

Olympia

The Monkeys Paw or Dangerous Game

Shari Ann Creamer

I said The Monkey's Paw last time! I'd love for him to do this one. One of my favourites.

Deanna Tracey

Literally anything by Edgar Allen Poe. I've been inl9ve with his works since high school!! 👍🖤

Olivia

Oh, I love that one!

Tess

The Sunshine Kid by Harry Baker. (It is a collection of poems by also my favorite in the book.)

Jamie T.

The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke (short SF). The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key (young adult SF but a great book for adults too IMO, is actually my favorite book of all time).

Kate Romeo

It would probably be too long but anything by Neil Gaiman would be cool! Coraline or Good Omens would be awesome!

Kayo

The Secret Garden

Cat

That might cause a copyright problem...

Cat

I'd love to have you read one of my fairy tale retellings (preferably the Little Tailor). They take part in a fairy tale world where technology evolved, but magic and technology don't get along very well. Aside from the little tailor it has a three legged unicorn, a magical artificial roundcat, a giant or two, and (of course) a greedy king.

SisterofWar

"The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins, would be a great story, as would Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet".

Janet Towles

The Lady, or the Tiger? By Frank R. Stockton It's *perfect*.... it sticks with the audience for a while (it's stuck with me for 20 years), it's the perfect length, there's no voices to do, but there are opportunities for sound effects (wedding bells, tiger growls). And it's a puzzle, an unanswerable question, which is what gives it that sticking power.

Amy Thomas

So, I'm gonna swing way out on a different limb here, and say, "The Giving Tree" or "Little Red Riding Hood".

Leah Hanson

“The Making of Dragons” by Jane Yolen "Sir John Mandeville’s Report on the Griffin" by Jane Yolen Both are poems that tell stories.

Elena Litvinova

Something from "The Martian Chronicles" of Ray Bradbury, especially "Night Meeting" or "The Martian". Or "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed" by the same author.

Lada Ovchinnikova

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe of C.S.Lewis, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien... Giovanni Francesco Rodari =)

Kayo

I thought of the Giving Tree, too. :)

Alex Walker

Stephen King's Sun Dog (any of his short stories) or Aesop’s Fables. Either would be great!

Heather James

I'm definitely seconding "If" by Rudyard Kipling

Maggie S

"The Monkey's Paw"; anything by Ambrose Bierce; "If" by Rudyard Kipling is wonderful

Maggie S

Either of these make an excellent choice

A.J. O'Brien

i still vote for "jabberwocky" by lewis carroll (and i won't blame you if you read the dad like a bellowing evangelical preacher, as i like to recite him...but, alas, i am a wispy little soprano and not a big beefy bass).

Hunter

There are SO MANY I could name, but honestly, ANYTHING that makes me relax and fall asleep at the end of a long work day on the covid-ridden superhero front line. Pandemic fatigue is knocking...

SisterofWar

Okay, I just thought of these two, and I need to toss in my two bits for either of the following: "Ode to a Nightingale", by John Keats, or "The Hollow Men", by T.S. Eliot

Faline

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Leah Hanson

I'd love to hear Geoff read Jabberwocky; it's my favorite aunt's favorite poem.

Kim Jones

Kahlil Gibran "The Prophet"

Kim Jones

i thought of "If" too, and anything from "The Martian Chronicles" or "The Illustrated Man" would also work.

Wendy Bishop

I hear that. Having a steady job this whole time is nice but really wish I wasn't a nurse right now.

Dan Black

I'd still love to hear "The Cremation of Sam McGee"! It's slightly creepy, but it's more of a desolate, lonely vibe than what people usually think about when they hear "creepy"; and I like the rhythm of the poem. It would be incredible with your voice, Geoff! Sadly, when I suggested this last time, it didn't get much support. Do people just not know this one? Look it up, y'all. There's a Johnny Cash version that can be found easily on youtube. As good as that one is, I don't think even that would compare to a version read by Geoff. Not that I wasn't thrilled to hear The Little Mermaid -- I still love that Disney movie, and to hear you read the much more depressing original was ironically quite enjoyable. But I tend to think something like Sam McGee wouldn't just be "nice" to hear you read; I think it would be exponentially better!

Tara Congo

That's a classic old Canadian poem. Brings back memories of my Language Arts class in elementary school :)

Hana Keindlová

Call me old-fashioned, but anything from Shakespeare. I was always fascinated by the way he played with English but at the same time it's hard for me to read it and understand. We read some of his most famous work at school, but in my language so it lost a lot of it's specific beauty (even thought our translators did an amazing job).

Veronika Troll

Yes!! What a coincidence, I just read it again yesterday :)

Stacey Post

We have needed "Masque of the Red Death" this entire pandemic.

Stacey Post

I think Geoff's going to have to resign himself to reading "Martian Chronicles" at some point. It keeps coming up. "Mars Is Heaven" would also be good.

Stacey Post

I'm familiar with it. I'm just on a serious Bradbury obsession right now. His themes of creative repression and dystopias have always fascinated me.

Dan Black

I do love Bradbury, too. (I even have an autographed book!) I'm just not sure they'd benefit as much from Geoff reading them as Sam McGee would.

Alex Sage

The Most Dangerous Game cause idk. It was a fun story in school.

Susan Smith

I think any of the Sherlock Holmes stories would be great.

Lourdes Sanz

Some suggestions: Ghost of Canterville by Oscar Wilde; short tales by Franz Kafka Before the Law, An Imperial Message; The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges; The Nose by Nicolai V Gogol...

Megan Murdock

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Patricia Orick

I would love to hear you read something by Lovecraft.

Nellie Daugherty

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop --it's brief, but lush and poignant.