The Hidden Gems Podcast (Classic Tales & Original Short Stories)

Updated: 28 Oct 2024 • 40 episodes
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The Hidden Gems Podcast is dedicated to bringing you a variety of classic tales as well as original short stories from, as yet, undiscovered writers. Join your host, C. Mack Lewis, and our professional narrator, John Bell, as we tell you the best short stories that you've never heard! ​

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On a Halloween dare, a little girl kicks a gravestone and then must deal with the consequences. Truth or fiction? You decide.   For more about this and other hauntings, listen to "The Cost of Seeing Ghosts" at Midnight Balloon.com Thank you for listening to The Hidden Gems Podcast, which is dedicated to bringing you th

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Most of us live rather small and quiet lives, which has its own special charm. But what happens if you are Oppenheimer, the builder of the atomic bomb, knowing that you are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people? Is it possible to go back in time and make other choices? Perhaps, but there are always conseque

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We've all had our hearts broken, just as we are all guilty of breaking someone else's heart. Think back and examine your own history. Agnes Keith-Wessington pursued Jack in her rickshaw, but who would be haunting you and in what type of vehicle would they be pursuing you?   For more information, check out this article

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Laura, written by Saki

Lions, and Tigers, and...Otters?  Hector Hugh Monru (1870-1916) chose his pseudonym "Saki" after a fictional character who was a cupbearer who was on a "joyous errand" to serve wine to guests in Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát.  For more information about Saki, check out these articles: Untameable Saki - One hundred years afte

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The Hidden Gems Podcast is deeply honored to be featuring a short story written by the internationally acclaimed artist, Rick Levinson!    Rick Levinson's Artist Statment:Stories. Real and Imagined. With Pictures. At the basis of all of my art there are stories. They combine my actual life experiences, voluntarily imag

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Anton Chekhov was a physician, playwright, and master of the art of the short story. For more information, check out this wonderful article on Anton Chekhov: https://newrepublic.com/article/170133/vast-humanity-anton-chekhov-blaisdell-biography-review John Bell is our  was our narrator and he is also the writer, produc

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