Untold Tales

Untold Tales

The UNTOLD TALES Audio Anthologies is a collection of original science fiction short stories of the highest caliber, narrated in audiobook style, perfect for your commute or unexpected downtimes. These bite-sized audio dramas come in different flavors and highlight the works of new authors. Victorian Sci-Fi, parallel realities, cautionary tales, horror, time travel - each episode of UNTOLD TALES is an independent short story of adventure, technology, love, hope, discovery, and mystery. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/untold-tales/support

This website provides you with access to all podcast episodes, videos of the episodes, our blog (for listeners, readers and writers), and the books by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson that inspired this popular audio anthology. You can also contact us, read our blog, see our videos, or comment or leave a review to tell us what you think of UNTOLD TALES. (A Dreamspeaker Media, LLC production)

Thanks to your support, WE WON the 2023 Ampie Creator Award!

       

 

WE WON!!! Thank you to everyone in our big-little city (and on our email list!!!) who nominated and voted for The Untold Tales Podcast to win the Ampie Award in the Creator category! 🎧 🎤

We love our listeners, fans and patrons and are just so happy to share this WIN with YOU. 🥂

The Ampie Awards here in the City of Peoria, Arizona  celebrate the innovation, creativity, collaboration and excellence within the West Valley's entrepreneurial ecosystem while also amplifying these values. These awards are all about saying a huge thank you and celebrating the hard work entrepreneurs do every day, while boosting the key areas that help local businesses, nonprofits, and other startups thrive and grow.

We really couldn’t have gotten this recognition without the tireless support of our friends at the Arizona State University  J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute! 

 

"Untold Tales guarantees that all work is authentic and will never be created by voice clones , A.I. models or machine intelligence. Dreamspeaker Media LLC is and has not given permission or authorization to any A.I. program or machine intelligence related companies anywhere it is heard."

 

Recent Episodes

Episode 106 : It Just Doesn't Work Like That

Dec. 1, 2023

It Just Doesn't Work Like That: Sometimes it's not clear just how things really work. We hope you enjoy this story by our own Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson. We love our listeners, fans and patrons! If you loved what you heard, ple…

ANNOUNCEMENT! We won the 2023 Ampie Creator Award!

Nov. 17, 2023

WE WON!!! Thank you to everyone in our big-little city (and on our email list!!!) who nominated and voted for The Untold Tales Podcast to win the Ampie Award in the Creator category! 🎧 🎤 We love our listeners, fans and patro…

Episode 105 : The Unwishing Well

Nov. 15, 2023

The Unwishing Well - What if you could just discard the unpleasant memories, pain, suffering, and death that shadow human existence? Could any vessel hold it all? Another story by our very own Iron Man, Don Muchow! A lifelon…

Episode 104 : The Traveling Salesman Part 11

Nov. 1, 2023

The Traveling Salesman Part 11 - Captured by the Bentusi syndicate, Bob and Glactyl escape... sort of. Enjoy this collaborative story in the Traveling Salesman Series by Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson and Don Muchow!! We love our l…

Episode 103: Interview with Untold Tales Author Howard Loring

Oct. 15, 2023

Enjoy this coveted interview with lifelong artist, Howard Loring! Howard is an actor, printmaker, painter and sculptor, as well as the author of both novels and short stories. Married, he currently resides in the Southeaster…

Episode 102 : The Unknowable

Oct. 1, 2023

The Unknowable - There are lines that separate what is, what is not... and what might be. There is a boundary between reality and dreams. When we lose sight of that boundary... that is madness. This is our third story submit…

Recent Blog Posts

The Burden of Omniscience

One of the biggest problems that a writer faces is omniscience. The author, by definition, knows everything about the story. Unfortunately, many of the details that the writer has in his head are simply not essential to the story that they are telli…

LITERARY JARGON DEFINES THE EPIC FABLE

Literature has jargon, the specialized language of any Discipline. Therefore Literature, as a Discipline, holds its own terminology: A Fable is a simple story with a moral, or a moral lesson. An …

Why I Love Narrating Stories

My mother used to tell me fantastical stories about how when I was 4 years old, I’d rush home from Kindergarten with WILD stories about my day. Breathless, I could barely get out a syllable, as my mother tried to coach me and talk me down from…

About the Hosts

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Melissa Del Toro Schaffner

Voice Actor

Melissa Del Toro Schaffner is an American Voice Actor and the co-creator narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast. In addition to being in the Mom after 40 club, she wears multiple hats including international best selling author, accomplished Accountability Coach, and creator/ illustrator of the Minority Girl Empowerment Coloring Book “Careers for Little Sisters” (available in English and Spanish). Melissa was also a contestant on the nationally televised game show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” and shares a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and MBA background with Jeff. Her current mission to inspire one million women to live the life of their dreams.

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Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson

Author

Jeffrey A Robinson is the co-creator and chief writer of the Untold Tales podcast, a collection of short stories of the highest caliber based on the first in a set of three published science fiction anthologies. Jeff is a retired technologist, who grew up loving to read science fiction. After serving as a Naval Flight Officer, who flew F-4 Phantom jets, and an Air Traffic Controller, in the Marine Corps, he became a device physicist in a semiconductor-manufacturing facility and an expert in Manufacturing Execution Systems, computer automation, integration & cybersecurity. He has a B.A. in Physics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He also has postgraduate certificates in Computer Forensics, and a PMP, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, as well.

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Don Muchow

Don is a co-editor of UNTOLD TALES, an author, a guest blogger, and a frequent contributor to UNTOLD TALES. Click on his picture on the CONTRIBUTOR page for his full Bio.

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Gil Schmidt

Gil is an author, a guest blogger, and a frequent contributor to UNTOLD TALES. Click on his picture on the CONTRIBUTOR page for his full Bio.

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Marc Neuffer

Marc Neuffer is an accomplished author, a guest blogger, and a frequent contributor to UNTOLD TALES. Click on his picture on the CONTRIBUTOR page for his full Bio.

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Chris Morton

Contributor

Chris Morton's stories have been described as being in the genres of slacker lit, sci-fi lit, sci-fi psyche, magical realism, and avant-garde.
He is the author of three novels, six novellas, and over thirty short stories.
An English teacher for twenty years, Morton is also the author of the teaching guide: 'TEFL Flashcard Games for Young Learners.'

Chris is scheduled for several more upcoming episodes and is a contributor to our BLOGS as well

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Howard Loring

Contributor

A lifelong artist, Howard Loring is an actor, printmaker, painter and sculptor, as well as the author of both novels and short stories. Married, he currently resides in the Southeastern United States. He can be contacted via his Facebook Fan page.