Fabulous Fiction Fridays is a collection of short fiction stories in audio format! The stories are penned by various authors and brought to life by Darlene Foier.

• All in the Family

  Author: Donna Fawcett  

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    Listen to "All in the Family" written by Donna Fawcett; Read by Darlene Poier.

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• HiJinks

  Author: Kathryn England  

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    Listen to "HiJinks" written by Kathryn England; Read by Kathryn England and Family

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• TouchPaper

  Author: David Heaton  

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    Fame and Fortune await a hopeful - and rather anxious - young man... in the story "Touchpaper" featured Friday at 12:00 on Fabulous Fiction Fridays hosted by Darlene Poier.

    David lives about an hour north of Manchester England. A beautiful part of that country - its open spaces allow for long walks to enjoy the environment that sometimes provide a backdrop for his stories. David lives with his wife and daughter.

    David tends to write two types of genres - Light-hearted, quirky stuff or dark, unsettling psychological stories at the other end of the spectrum!

    'Touchpaper' was written a long time ago and has been good to him over the years. He put it in a collection on the Amazon Kindle store a few years ago in the brave new world of self publishing. A director in the US called Nick Rafter who subsequently read the stories contacted David as a result and asked him if he would write a story for adaptation into a short film. He said he had liked the character of Norman in the story 'Touchpaper' and asked if David could develop him further, using Norman and his talent show act in a different story set in post 9/11 New York. David nearly bit his arm off at this opportunity and the resulting story he wrote entitled 'Open Spaces' was adapted into a screenplay (on which he also collaborated) and filmed a couple of years ago. It's been doing the rounds at film festivals around the world. (It was fortunate enough to be shown at the short film corner at Cannes 2013 among others, and won best short screenplay at The Visionfest Film Festival in New York last year). There's a website and trailer for the film at www.openspacesfilm.com.

    It all started with the story 'Touchpaper'.
    Some links to David's work:

    http://www.amazon.ca/Offbeat-Collection-Quirky-Short-Stories-ebook/dp/B00413QNCQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434122128&sr=8-1&keywords=offbeat+david+heaton

    http://www.amazon.ca/Sending-Flowers-Interpol-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B0097DKIVW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1434122128&sr=8-2&keywords=offbeat+david+heaton

    http://www.amazon.ca/Dark-Deep-Collection-Tales-Unease-ebook/dp/B00O8PE9IC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434122288&sr=8-1&keywords=dark+and+deep+david+heaton

    http://www.amazon.ca/Love-Among-Parsnips-Fruity-Romance-ebook/dp/B0082GWQJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434122363&sr=8-1&keywords=love+among+the+parsnips+david+heaton

    http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+prime+minister%27s+promise+david+heaton&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Athe+prime+minister%27s+promise+david+heaton

    http://www.amazon.ca/Clear-Pool-Fairy-Tale-Children-ebook/dp/B004A8ZTOK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434122573&sr=8-1&keywords=the+clear+pool+david+heaton

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• "Mourning"

  Written by Laura Crowe  

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    Laura Crowe is a writer, editor, teacher, and owner of Imagine It In Writing. Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous Canadian magazines including Pages Of Stories, The Prairie Journal, Every Day Fiction, and Horizons. Laura also works as editor of Ficta Fabula, an online magazine that publishes short fiction.

    For more details visit http://www.pagesofstories.com/#!fabulous-fiction-friday/c1dyf

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• The Summer of Ed

  Bonnie Way  

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    Ed is hired to work in the sawmill, but there's more to Ed than meets the eye.

    After the story, join us for a short interview with Special Guest: Animal Rescue Foundation

    Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) of Alberta is an animal rescue organization helping dogs and cats in Alberta.

    Founded in 1995, ARF is a volunteer-based organization and registered non-profit charity. Our mission is to rescue stray and unwanted dogs and cats fromm First Nations and rural areas and place them in loving, permanent homes while providing programs to reduce pet over-population.

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• Special Edition: Alls Fair & The Swimmer

   

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    First we start off with southern Ontario’s Cheryl Losch and her story “All’s Fair”. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer – but sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between the two.

    And then our second story is “The Swimmer” from Stanley Wright who lives and writes in the south of
    France.

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• "Traffic"

  Author: Chris Carleton  

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    Today’s guest is Chris Carleton, who is ALSO our Featured Author this week.

    For those of you that aren’t in Western Canada, Chris’s story is set in a place called Jasper Alberta
    which is nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains on the east side.

    Some other things to know is that Jasper is a beautiful town surrounded by an almost endless amount of nature. It is a beautiful place to escape to.

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• A Walk In The Woods

  Author: Allan Kalupar  

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    Listen to "A Walk in the Woods" written by Allan Kalupar

    Also Special Guest:
    Holly Duvall from The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC)

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