Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

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12/27/22

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111m

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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook.

Genre: horror

A storm howls across the sea as the schooner Helen B. Jackson fights to stay afloat, and in the chaos a cry rings out: man overboard. When the crew counts heads after the gale, one of the Benton twins is missing - Jim or Jack, so alike that even shipmates hesitate to swear which brother was swept away. The loss should be the end of it, another hard truth of life before the mast, yet strange details begin to accumulate: an extra place setting that appears to have been used, footsteps where no one is walking, a sense of company in the tight quarters of the ship. The narrator, a practical seaman with no taste for superstition, tries to explain away what he sees and hears, but the uncanny follows the surviving twin back to shore as well. With a young woman named Mamie waiting in his new life, the survivor should be able to begin again - if grief, guilt, and whatever came back from the storm will let him. Crawford blends nautical realism with a slow, chilling ghostly doubt about identity and the boundaries between the living and the dead.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:32) Chapter 2

(00:59:19) Chapter 3

(01:27:36) Chapter 4

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Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

December 26, 2022

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Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Clarey is a low-ranking Sub-Archivist in a rigid future society where your job classification can define your entire life, and his private dream of becoming a musician feels more impossible every year. Then, during what he expects to be yet another disappointing visit to the Classification Center, Clarey is abruptly reassigned - not to the artistic post he imagined, but to something far more dangerous: an intelligence assignment off-world. Sent to the alien planet Damorlan, he must learn to survive in a place where social cues are unfamiliar, loyalties are hard to read, and a single mistake can expose him as an outsider. As Clarey is pulled deeper into interstellar intrigue, he faces a constant pressure to perform a role he never asked for while trying to hold onto the parts of himself the system has tried to file away. Witty, sharp, and tense, Sentry of the Sky blends espionage stakes with satirical observations about bureaucracy, ambition, and the uneasy gap between who we are and who we are permitted to be.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:35) Chapter 02

(01:08:13) Chapter 03

(01:36:17) Chapter 04

(02:08:04) Chapter 05

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 27, 2022

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66m

Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

In this sharp, witty story of youth and status, Bernice, a shy girl from the East, arrives for a summer visit with her dazzling cousin Marjorie at a small-town country club in Minnesota. Surrounded by dances, tennis, porch gossip, and a social scene ruled by quick tongues and quicker judgments, Bernice feels invisible next to Marjorie's effortless charm. Marjorie offers to remake her - coaching her on conversation, confidence, and the careful performance that passes for popularity. The lessons work, but success comes with a price: attention turns into scrutiny, friendships become competitions, and Marjorie and Bernice slip from allies into rivals as the town decides who deserves to shine. When a dare about a drastic new look becomes a public test of nerve, Bernice is forced to choose between staying safe and taking control of her own image. Fitzgerald captures the thrill of belonging, the cruelty of fashionable crowds, and the uneasy question beneath every compliment: is the admired version of you actually you at all?

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(00:32:18) Chapter 02

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