At The Whisky Girl, A Flash Fiction By Scott Syx Aka Cheshirecatgrins, Read By Russil Tamsen. 4:21

This is a panoramic shot of most of Dear Aunt Gertrude, my comedy improv troupe. I'm sporting the orange tie to the left, to the left.

From cupcakesandcum on Tumblr comes this dirty, raw, disturbing, yet evocative sexual monologue. Performed by Russil Tamsen. 5 mins. Original text here.

The piece concerns the five first encounters in a temporary relationship. A ragged pair of stockings exemplifies the couple's disarray with terminal runs.   It was great to be allowed to experiment with this writing! In the audio I played with rhythm, adding in some character voices, and some out of control sound effects. I totally went for the humor too... 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!

Your Cheatin' Heart, a dark flash fiction by Nick Desjardins aka a-new-american-classic, as narrated by Russil Tamsen. Only 4 mins. Perfect for all you Quentin Tarantino fans! Original text here. On a slow night, some morbid humor unfolds in a southern pool hall: the bartender's hot mess of a lesbian roommate stumbles in and casually spills some shocking news...

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 Cleanup, excerpted from a novel by Ravi Kotecha, narrated by Russil Tamsen.  13 mins.  Written version here. A couple of young dudes from India - runaways from an earlier chapter - have inserted themselves into the business of smuggling guns and opium. They are now wandering around the rutted back tracks of Afghanistan, haggling and trying to spend as much of their arms trade money as possible buying up as much opium as their rickety vehicles can carry.  Wow, this was a vocal actor's challenge. Jumping between several Indian and Arabic voicings, phew!  I love picturing these exotic locales... And it's a nerve-wracking tale too: we're just waiting for the shoe to drop, for their hubris to catch up with them! That, however, would be part of a later chapter. I initially voiced the narrator as an Indian, but later decided to go with my regular voice. It's a tough call when the narrator is first person, but it seemed like too much Indian the other way. What do you think?

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!

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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. :-)

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 :-)

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 rough and tumble erotic story of disturbia by Molly Cupcakes, They'd Fucked Five Times So Far. Russil Tamsen's second audio version of the piece. 3 mins. Written text here.

It's fascinating how different acting choices by a speaker can create vastly different results. This was the first time I'd ventured two very different versions of a story, and it was enlightening. Feedback from one listener of the first version got me imagining how this flash fiction story would sound delivered in a normal narrator's voice. Using a resonant, understated approach, one that let the language do all the legwork: a very different choice from overstated version one.

To me it sounds really good this way. It might possibly be the better choice!

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!

GPOY... Me, Russil Tamsen.

Audiobook narrator with many accents

The Future of Poop, comic monologue penned by Peter Bradley, performed by Russil Tamsen. Original here. 6 mins.

This was just too fucking funny for me to pass up! The conceit is simple: earthlings in the future invent time travel technology… and use it as a waste disposal chute. We in the past, specifically our bodies, are the hapless recipients of future waste. (It’s probably going to happen, too, right?) There’s only one way to solve this problem.

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 Future of Poop, comic monologue penned by Peter Bradley, performed by Russil Tamsen. Original here. 6 mins.

This was just too fucking funny for me to pass up! The conceit is simple: earthlings in the future invent time travel technology... and use it as a waste disposal chute. We in the past, specifically our bodies, are the hapless recipients of future waste. (It's probably going to happen, too, right?) There's only one way to solve this problem.

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!