Autumn Wing, A Monologue By Blank's Page, Performed By Russil Tamsen. 5 Mins. Written Version here.

A steamy erotic story by Wonderstruck on Tumblr, narrated by Russil Tamsen! 3 mins. Original text here.

I needed a change of pace from the sad and dark, so I narrated this tasteful yet scorching scene where we stumble into a couple having a quickie in a doorway. (If that doesn't sound pulse-quickening to you, scroll down my blog, poke around, there are plenty of pieces to choose from.)

Wonderstruck's poetic cadences made me reach fo' a spoken word artist's kind of microphone flow. No I didn't do any accent for this narration, WS, I just didn't hear one in my head!  Maybe next time :-)

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At The Whisky Girl, a flash fiction by Scott Syx aka cheshirecatgrins, read by Russil Tamsen. 4:21 mins. Original text here. 

An unlikely romantic encounter between a pair of drinkers starts at a noisy night club. The two grapple cautiously on the perilous road to intimacy - their respective emotional baggages casting long shadows along the way...

This piece said noir to me (although updated). So I said noir back! 

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So excited! I stepped up from doing all those short story audiobooklets for theTumblr writing community to my first full length recording of a novel! Did about 30 character voices too! I am a pro now. :-)

Here's the first of two dialogues, audio selections from the writings of the talented David Blanton aka irrationalgraceistaken, as narrated by Russil Tamsen. 5 mins. Original text here.

The chapter is amusingly risque. A Nawleens poetry dude shoots the shit in a cafe with a very imaginative friend who's trying to 'help' him write his novel. 5 mins.

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Chilly film noir, a monologue written by Eric Boyd that was published in issue nine of The Fourth River.  It's called Anything For Johnny. Performed by Russil Tamsen. 10 minutes. Original text here.

Today we have a serious drama, just in case you were thinking I could only do goofy! We follow an inmate through the last bitter moments of his incarceration, his release from jail, and his first disappointing moments of freedom. It's rough for a guy having to start over with empty pockets in the middle of winter, but he's got one thing going for him: at least one Jamaican thinks he looks like Johnny Depp. 

[Funny thing: my gf thinks I look like Depp also, but it 's probably her rose-colored classes talking.]  All rights reserved. Russil Tamsen: narrator, comic improv actor, book editor, and author of 21 ebooks. Please visit my ebookstore at QuirkEbooks.com and follow audiobooknarrator. Know a piece of Tumblr fiction that deserves a great reader? Run it by me!

The Recruit is entertaining radio theater of a flash fiction by Lucy Younghusband, featuring lots of fun British voices by Russil Tamsen. 9 mins. Original text here.

I got to pull out me whole Monty Python toolbox for this one!  The Recruit is poignant. Add in your own mental sound fx and it's 1939 England.  A hapless British husband eager to please his fertile wife is desperate for a job. He finally lands one with an odd German doctor - whose already sketchy sounding experiments turn out to be a ghastly deception. Highly embarrassing and exposing. :)

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9. The Poet and The Thief, Part One. 

An intriguing short story written last year by Jen von Mountebank aka jayarrarr, one of our renowned editors here on Tumblr, and narrated by Russil Tamsen. Original text here.

The four characters include a grungy thief who talks in an odd pirate-ish patois, an upset and pompous poet, and Woody Allen as The Narrator, who says he made the other two up. Now they're all sitting in the same radio theater jail cell. It's a philosophical dissection about whether it's even possible for a writer to avoid borrowing/stealing. (The language is a tad complex, so listen closely!)

Part Two here.

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Yay!  I finally have a decent video of me performing! This is me reading fiction at L Train. The piece is David Sautter's detective story "People Just Disappear", and this took place during the first Fiction, Live! evening which I also emceed. Videography by Jeff Handy.

10. The Thief and the Poet, part 2.

Short story written by Jen Mountebank, narrated by Russil Tamsen. Original text here.

Here's the conclusion to the saga of a strange trio who find themselves in the same prison cell: one 'uninhibited' nutjob of a thief, a distressed poet who likes to pontificate, and a stammering Manhattan Jew of a narrator. They will wrestle with the inability of writers to keep an audience's interest without in some way plagiarizing. Part 2 is 7 mins. 

This short story was pretty intellectually funny, and dark too. A warning for all youse authors like me who find youse selves straddling both high brow and low brow worlds! 

Part One here.

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Cor Blimey! This is a rollercoaster of a monologue performed by Russil Tamsen. It was written by one of our illustrious Tumblrites, Laura J. Blake. So much fun in one disaster! 7 mins. Original text here.

In the piece, a jilted, pent up Londoner struggles to apologize for decking the ex's new beau, but eventually he loses his self-restraint and goes ballistic  - while the answering machine records every stammer and twitch. Somewhere between Simon Pegg and Jason Statham. I could have done it all flat and deadpan, true, but I decided on a climactic shape instead. 7 mins. :)

All rights reserved. Russil Tamsen: narrator, comic improv actor, book editor, and author of 21 ebooks. Please visit my ebookstore at QuirkEbooks.com and follow audiobooknarrator. Know a piece of Tumblr fiction that deserves a great reader? Run it by me!