Al Kessel – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:54:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/spokenrealms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-logo-purple-black-white-outline.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Al Kessel – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com 32 32 136118765 The Story of Doctor Dolittle https://spokenrealms.com/2022/12/09/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/ https://spokenrealms.com/2022/12/09/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:49:00 +0000 https://www.spokenrealms.com/?p=20877

You’ve seen the movies, now listen to the original tale of John Dolittle, MD, the Doctor who could talk to animals! Join Doctor Dolittle, Polynesia the parrot, Jip the dog, Dab-Dab the duck, Chee-Chee the monkey, and more as they embark on a perilous and wonderful adventure to save the monkeys in Africa from a deadly disease! Cheer them on as they battle pirates and a ruthless king!

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2022/12/09/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/feed/ 0 20877 The Monkey’s Paw https://spokenrealms.com/2018/05/31/the-monkeys-paw-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2018/05/31/the-monkeys-paw-akessel/#respond Thu, 31 May 2018 17:30:44 +0000 https://www.spokenrealms.com/?p=8580 What would you do with a talisman that could grant you three wishes? Any three wishes you could imagine?

In the classic horror short story, The Monkey’s Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, the White family discovers that sometimes, wishes are too good to be true. When Sergeant Major Morris, an old friend who served in the military and has traveled to far off lands, introduces the Whites to a mummified monkey’s paw that he claims can grant the owner three wishes. He leaves them with a warning: IF you use the monkey’s paw, be careful what you wish for!

The original horror story that inspired numerous plays, TV shows, and movies, W.W. Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw is a classic story of being mindful of how you ask for things…

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2018/05/31/the-monkeys-paw-akessel/feed/ 0 8580 Cinderella https://spokenrealms.com/2018/02/21/cinderella-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2018/02/21/cinderella-akessel/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:36:05 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.com/?p=8124 After her beloved mother dies, young Ella’s father remarries, believing he is doing the best he can. However, the new baroness of the house and her two horrible, jealous, and spiteful daughters decide to make Ella their house slave and have her catering to their every demand. When a young prince holds a grand ball for all in the town, Ella is instructed that she must stay home. Hearing her sobs, Ella’s fairy godmother arrives and transforms her and a few of the local wildlife into a vision fit for a king!

From the original story by The Brothers Grimm as retold by C. S. Evans, Cinderella is a story as old as love itself.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2018/02/21/cinderella-akessel/feed/ 0 8124 A Kidnapped Santa Claus https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/07/a-kidnapped-santa-claus-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/07/a-kidnapped-santa-claus-akessel/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:33:27 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5979 Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where he works throughout the year to make the wonderful toys he delivers on Christmas Eve to his beloved children all over the world. Everyone loves good old Santa Claus – well, everyone but the denizens of the Cave of Daemons, who, after many years of despising the jolly old fellow for bringing cheer to others, decide to take matters into their own hands!

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/07/a-kidnapped-santa-claus-akessel/feed/ 0 5979 The Canterville Ghost https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/21/the-canterville-ghost-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/21/the-canterville-ghost-akessel/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:48:44 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=7082 The classic haunting tale by Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost” is the story of an American family moving in to the ancient Canterville Chase in England, which has all the accoutrements of the traditional English haunted house! Lord Simon Canterville, the resident denizen of the afterlife, haunts the halls of this hallowed home with all the superiority his ghostly skills have afforded him lo these past centuries. That is, of course, until the Otis family, from America, move in and give him a devil of a time!

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/21/the-canterville-ghost-akessel/feed/ 0 7082 Beauty and the Beast https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/13/beauty-and-the-beast-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/13/beauty-and-the-beast-akessel/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:38:15 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=7030 A story as old as time….
You’ve heard the tale of the Beauty and the Beast before, but not like this. The original French fairy tale written by Madame de Villeneuve relates the tale of a wealthy family plagued by misfortune and of a father who wished to give his beloved daughter, Beauty, the only gift she desired – a rose. But the rose Beauty’s father decides to pick for her comes with a great price – a price exacted by the lord of the palace, a Beast of a man!

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/09/13/beauty-and-the-beast-akessel/feed/ 0 7030 The Adjustment Team https://spokenrealms.com/2015/06/15/the-adjustment-team-akessel/ https://spokenrealms.com/2015/06/15/the-adjustment-team-akessel/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:40:39 +0000 http://spokenrealms.net/?p=4842 adjustmentteam-akesselPhilip K. Dick’s classic paranoid story, “The Adjustment Team”, which asks the question: Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Ed Fletcher is a real estate agent with a normal life, until one day he leaves the house for work a few minutes later than he should have. He arrives at a terrifying, grey, ash world. Ed rushes home and tells his wife, Ruth, who goes back to the office with him. When they return, everything is normal. But he soon realizes people and objects have subtly changed. Panic-stricken, he runs to a public phone to warn the police, only to have the phone booth ascend heavenward with Fletcher inside. The Adjustment Bureau, the 2011 Universal Pictures movie based on this classic Dick story, starred Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

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