Liars' League

Salvador Dali's 115th Dream by Niall Boyce

 

Read by Ben Crystal

 
Roll up!

You are all, I can see, people of taste. Of course, a great deal of money is necessary to purchase the item I am offering for sale: but you need taste, excellent taste, to truly appreciate it. Taste is all.

Antique Shopping by Lennart Lundh

 

Read by Terence Anderson

 

There comes a late-November Sunday, even in the upper Midwest, when the world outside is just too beautiful for those of us who live here to stay cooped up inside. Golden sunlight dances through branches bare of all but the most tenacious leaves. Grass bends a bit in a southerly breeze. Birds and fowl halt their migration for a while.

Legerdemain by Richard Smyth

 

Read by Greg Page

 

They’d talked about it, had discussions about it, late at night across the kitchen table, like other couples might talk about which one of their kids they could afford to send to college, or if maybe it was time for the wife to get a part-time job or for the husband to start putting in a bit more overtime –

‘It should be me. It’d be easier for me.’

Becalmed by Chris Fyles

 

Read by Will Goodhand

 

Be all you can be. If you want something enough, you will get it. The world is your oyster. And in this case:

“Success can be all yours simply through positive thinking. Visualise your success and it will be yours. All yours. Get a good, clear picture...”

She Doesn't Know How Tough It's Been by Sebastian Aston

 

 

Read by Tony Bell

 

It’s while you’re ordering a tall double decaf skinny latte that what you realise you really want is a beer. An ice-cold beer, with beads of condensation all over the glass that you can trace lines in with your finger. It’s too early, it’s just gone ten, but that’s what you’d really kill for right now.