In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.

Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.

"Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life-including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winners, high school students, dental hygienists, and a retired pickpocket-to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted millions of listeners on the Moth's Peabody Award-winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth also inspires thousands...

There are a million YouTube videos available for learning technical skills, but those skills are meaningless if you don't know how to assemble a compelling story. "You Gotta See This!" doesn't just offer up Paul Steven Forrest's best tips and tricks for making better videos, but this book delivers practical direction and tested techniques for more effective storytelling through all visual formats. His passion for sharing his vast experience in unscripted...

Hollywood is in the business of selling stories. And those stories generate over $10 billion each year. Think what you could do with your own writing if you knew the secrets behind writing stories that people want to buy. Think what a nice living you could make from your writing if you knew those secrets. It doesn't matter if you are writing a novel, a short story, a feature film, TV, a live stage show, or video game script. Nor does it matter what...

Museums, historical societies, schools, libraries, senior centers, festivals, community gatherings, marketing, corporate events... you name it. They're all hungry for a unique way to engage their patrons, clients and customers. You can be just the solution to their needs, and this guide will help you prepare and market yourself to do so. As a re-enactor you are a living, breathing conduit for a legacy or an era gone by. A legacy that NEEDS to be told...

"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a...

When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.

Chaucer's work begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly, the innkeeper, suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale will win a supper when they reach Canterbury.