Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg Tales

By: RFR and Joan Juliet Buck
  • Summary

  • ‘Serial Tales’ are set in Littleburg, the Hudson Valley hamlet that time forgot, until time remembered it. In Littleburg, the veil is so thin that the other world is in your face, and half the population are shamans. The psychic old guard must incorporate the post-Covid newbies , which leads to some powerful collective hallucinations, including, perhaps, the Second Coming. As a result , local hotel owner Vince and millionaire pop star renter Cobbler Martin think they have been given the mission to fight the darkness with light. Magical realism full of twists, laughs, and gut-punches told with a velvet voice, these stories owe a debt to Philip Pullman, MR James, Saki, John Wyndham, and ‘Lady Asquith’s Third Ghost Book’ These spoken serials began in September 2021 on Radio Free Rhinecliff with ‘The Companion Fog’ , an 8-chapter novella about a cloud you have custom-made to protect you from bad news. Season 1 of Littleburg is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.html . Laurie Anderson’s disquieting theme music sets the tone. Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ Radio Free Rhinecliff © 2022 Joan Juliet Buck
    © 2022 Joan Juliet Buck
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Episodes
  • Into a world without ghosts
    Jan 28 2023

    After Luella Diamond has fired the soul counters and spirits from the hotel Liminal, they aggregate into a snowball that pulls all the other spirits out of Littleburg. The sudden clarity leaves the inhabitants with only reality , and that is going to be hard. Celeste loses her powers during a seance , and realizes she may have chosen the wrong life path.

    Theme by Laurie Anderson

    Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

    Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

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    Less than 1 minute
  • The Twist of the Compass
    Sep 15 2022

    To kick off the second season of The Serial Tales of Littleburg, author Joan Juliet Buck provides a briefing on the events of Season One, with a comprehensive Who’s Who of the denizens of the Hudson Valley hamlet where so many city dwellers fled during the pandemic. But the the veil between worlds is thinner in Littleburg , and the price of admission may be steep. We learn about the three new witches: Celeste Granting, formerly in HR, now a professional seer with an anger problem; Kenella, a rich elder who sacrificed her good cashmeres to the moths of initiation; and Gigi Larsen, a troublemaker on every level. The locals: Minnie Gonzales the realtor who stalked the creepy heir to a house she wants, Vince and Harriet, puzzled owners of the haunted Hotel Liminal, Ebenezer Shallow, the man who lost his luck through lies, and Cobbler Martin, the luminous young pop star hoping to soothe her thwarted entitlement with a view of the river. We learn about the events last Christmas , a visit that was either a collective hallucination or a true visitation, and left Vince the hotel owner and Cobbler the pop star with the conviction that they had a mission to fight the darkness. After this show, you'll be up to date on the events and ready for the next episodes of the Serial Tales of Littleburg. Season 1 is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.

    Theme by Laurie Anderson

    Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

    Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

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    Less than 1 minute
  • The Cold Light Of Reality
    Mar 11 2023

    The Littleburg witch Celeste Granting has to give up her practice and go back to her prosaic old name-- Laura Appleby-- because the invisible world has gone silent since the ghosts were fired from the hotel. Laura no longer believes in the woo-woo stuff: She will devote herself to the dreary mantra IT IS WHAT IT IS. But then she realizes that Pluto is about to go into Aquarius , for the very first time since the tumultuous years between 1777and 1797. Our war of independence and the French Revolution. What heads are going to roll this time? Buckle your seatbelt and get out the popcorn. This announces a wild ride through living history. Come back for the next episode.

    Theme by Laurie Anderson

    Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

    Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

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    Less than 1 minute

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