STORIES FOR DOWNLOAD

in print and audio

 

 

 

STORIES BY AUTHOR

FABLES & JUST-SO STORIES

AUDIO STORIES

POETRY

ESSAYS ON STORYTELLING & ART

 

 

 

 

 

 

STORIES BY AUTHOR

 

 

Ray Bradbury

Like Menthol on Your Feet (Dandelion Wine)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Excerpt)

 

 

Sandra Cisnaros

Barb-B-Q - audio

Mexican Movies - audio

My Lucyfriend Who Smells Like Corn - audio

Salvador - audio

 

 

 

CS Lewis

The Founding of Narnia

Night Falls on Narnia

The Silver Chair (excerpt)

 

 

Ruyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

The Undertakers

Just So Stories

 

 

Flannery O'Connor

Revelation

The River

 

 

Edgar Allen Poe

Annabellee - audio

The Tell Tale Heart - audio

The Raven - audio

 

Isaac Besheva Singer

Manasseh's Dream - audio

Fools Paradise

Gimple the Fool - audio

Taibele and Her Demon - audio

A Day of Pleasure

Reb Asher the Dairy Man

Ole & Trufa (A Story of Two Leaves)

 

 

James Thurber

The Bear Who Let it Alone

The Owl Who Was God

The Unicorn in the Garden

 

 

 

Walter Wangerine

An Advent Monologue

Ragman

 

 

 

Oscar Wilde

The Selfish Giant

The Happy Prince

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Fisherman and his Soul

 

 

Misc Authors

The Cat That WentToTrinity - Robertson Davies - audio

At the End of the Mechanical Age - Donald Barthelme - audio

Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

The Gift of the Magi - O Henry

The Fisher King - Traditional

The Porcelain Man - Richard Kennedy

The New Mother - Lucy Clifford

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Marquez

The Chaser - John Collier

The Conversion of the Jews - Phillip Roth - audio

The Juniper Tree (audio) - Brothers Grimm/Geraldine Fitzgerald

A Midnight Clear (audio) - Robert Flynn/Tess Harper

The Wife's Story - Ursula K. le Guin

Wolfskin - Sharon Blackie

King of the Elves - Phillip K. Dick

The Magic Shop - HG. Wells

The Story-teller - HH. Monroe

 

 

 

FABLES & JUST-SO STORIES

(in print & audio)

 

Aesop's Fables On-line Collection

 

 

 

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

In Print: click here for the full collection

 

The Elephant's Child - Rabbit Ears Audio - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFarrin

How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin - Rabbit Sars Audio - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFarrin

How the Camel Got His Hump - Rabbit Ears Audio - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFarrin

How the Leopard Got His Spots - Rabbit Ears Audio - Danny Glover/Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The Begining of the Armadillos

The Butterfly that Stamped

The Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat that Walked by Himself

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo

How the Whale Got His Throat

How the Alphabet was Made

How the First Letter Was Written

Ham and the Porcupine

The Tabu Tale

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO STORIES

 

RABBIT EARS AUDIO STORIES

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Anansi the Spider - Denzel Washington/UB40

Pecos Bill - Robin Williams/Ry Cooder

The Fool and the Flying Ship - Robin Williams

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby - Danny Glover

Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion - Danny Glover

Billy Goats Gruff - Holly Hunter

The Three Little Pigs - Holly Hunter

The Brahman and the Tiger - Ben Kingsly/Wynton Marsalis

Little Red Riding Hood - Melony Griffith

The Elephant's Child - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFerrin

How the Rhino Got His Skin - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFerrin

How the Camel Got His Hump - Jack Nicholson/Bobby McFerrin

How the Leopard Got his Spots - Danny Glover/Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The Boy Who Drew Cats - John Hurt

David and Goliath - Mel Gibson

The Fisherman and His Wife - Jodie Foster

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Glen Close

 

 

 

SELECTED SHORTS - AUDIO FICTION

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Tibila and Her Demon - IB. Singer 27:30

Gimple the Fool - IB. Singer 34:49

Manasah's Dream - IB. Singer 19:30

The Juniper Tree - the Bros. Grimm 17:59

Torture by Hope - Bernard Hughes 14:19

Annabellee - Edgar Allen Poe 02:15

The Body Snatchers - Robert Louis Stevenson 59:00

The 548 - John Carver 49:47

Silver Water - Amy Bloom/Linda Lavin 23:27

Taking Miss Kezie to the Polls - David Haynes/Michael Jenae 20:44

 

MISC AUDIO

 

Give Thanks - Charles Loughton

 

 

 

 

 

POETRY

(in print)

 

 

Prayers from the Ark - Carmen de Gasztold

 

Why We Tell Stories - Lisel Mueller

 

The Creation - James Weldon Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESSAYS ON STORYTELLING & ART

(in print)

 

CK.Chesterton

Ethics of Elfland

What I Learned in the Nursery

 

CS. Lewis

Across the Canyon

Animal Farm VS 1984

Counting the Cost - Mere Christianity

Good and Bad Readers - An Experiment in Criticism - Excerpt

It All Began With a Picture

On Three Ways of Writing for Children

 

Misc. Authors

Just This Side of Byzantium - Ray Bradbury

The Wonder Child - Joseph Campbell

Mythic Cycles - Geofrey Hill

Fairy Stories - J.R.R.Tolkien

On Earth as it is in Heaven; Is Art Necessary for the Christian - Donald Hudson

Novelist and Believer - Flannery O' Conner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephan Leeper 2026