Hello Pegasonians!
Using the site
http://www.storyinliteraryfiction.com/features/silf-audio-download-mp3-short-stories-and-more/ here are some fantastic downloadable fictional texts for your class. Consider using collecting these on your tablets, class PCs, phones or listening posts. Auditory memory is such a future-thinking skill and enhancing these with comprehension questions is a futureproofing method for your teachers and your own planning! Thanks and credit to William H. Coles for a magnificent wiki site... easy to negotiate and very student [and teacher!] friendly. Please use this site!
Coming of age while helping a nephew.
Listen (15:44)
The Activist
A black piano player infiltrates the KKK in the cultural wars of the seventies.
William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Awards Semifinalist (2011), Semi-Finalist (2012).
Listen (23:36)
Big Gene
A desperate wife demands justice.
Finalist in the William Faulkner: William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Listen (30:49)
Captain Withers’s Wife
A store manager befriends an employee.
Listen (25:14)
The Cart Boy
A mother drives her handicapped son to be institutionalized.
Listen (4:28)
Clouds
A nursing assistant takes a wrong turn in patient care.
Presented at Kenyon College and at Zoetrope Belize Workshop.
Listen (6:11)
Crossing Over
A dinner party goes awry.
Listen (25:18)
Curse of a Lonely Heart
When is a life not worth saving?
Listen (4:24)
Dilemma
A young girl comes of age when her father is charged with murder.
Listen (19:42)
Dr. Greiner's Day in Court
A scam artist does good.
Finalist in the 2007 William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition.
Listen (21:09)
Facing Grace ...
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Listen (33:46)
Gatemouth Willie Brown on Guitar
A determined mother protects her deformed child from the destructive sympathies of family and society.
Listen (31:37)
he Gift ...
Two women with declining allure fight for supremacy for the men in their lives.
William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Awards Semifinalist (2011), Short-list finalist (2012).
Listen (31:14)
The Golden Flute
A mother grieves her former boyfriend and sees her daughter in a new light.
William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Awards Finalist (2010), Semi-Finalist (2012).
Listen (27:30)
Grief
A top three finalist in William Faulkner:William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition 2008
Listen (28:22)
Homunculus
Listen (15:59)
The Indelible Myth
Miracles emerge in the chaos of the French revolution.
Listen (48:18)
The Miracle of ...
A trucker breaks his rule about hitchhikers to discover evil in someone he comes to care about.
Listen (31:11)
Inside the Matryoshka
Two couples on tour find new meaning in their lives after the theft of a precious necklace.
William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Awards Finalist (2011), Finalist (2012).
Listen (27:57)
The Necklace
Discovering love in Mississippi when there’s nothing left at the bottom of the bucket.
Listen (13:26)
On the Road ...
A convict fails to charm his last chance at love.
Winner 2006 Sandhills Writers Competition.
Listen (38:21)
Reddog
An associate professor learns more from his student than he expected.
Listen (25:54)
Speaking of the Dead
A victim of the slave trade escapes.
Listen (36:54)
Suchin's Escape
A grandmother helps her grandson maneuver in the custody battle of his parents.
Listen (12:49)
The War of the Flies
Listen (10:08)
The Wreck of the Amtrak’s Silver Service
When comparing our students' writing and finding standards and marking to compare their advances, here is a terrific website that sets out examples of students' work, Years 1-6. Enjoy a really terrific resource!
