Download audio short stories

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Each week Sniplits offers a free audio short story and this week it is the suspensful story of a mentally challenged boy who discovers evidence of murder and secrets it away to his special place. But when the killer realizes what Toby has done, he determines to kill him too. Dumb Son, is by Dutch author Floris Kleijne.

(The story price will change from $.88 to $0 during check out and it will be free through Monday, August 2nd.)

Dumb Son By Floris M. Kleijne Sweet, mentally challenged Toby has simple desires: collecting pretty Coke... (More) Time: 18:02 / $0.88  Sample   Add to Cart

Meet our talented narrators

Is there anything more wonderful than having someone tell you a story in a voice that just carries you away? We carefully select just the right narrator to tell each Sniplits story and professionally produce them for the very best listening experience. All of our narrators are professional actors / voice talent.

Ben Dooley has been an actor of all types in the Chicagoland area - from stage to television to radio and just about everywhere else in-between. In addition to narrating Sniplits stories, his wide range of character voices and narrative reading styles have been utilized in animated shorts, training videos, and even reading subtitles live for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival for more than 14 years. He has also appeared in the Left Behind audio book series and he performs a myriad characters for Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, a live recreation of classic programs from the golden age of radio.

The
Perfect Gift
for the Travelers on Your List

Sniplits downloadable audio short stories are perfectly-sized for your fast-paced life. Download stories from under 5 minutes to about 1 hour. Download short literary and genre fiction for the next time you are:

• Commuting
• Working out
• Traveling
• Waiting in line
• Waiting, anywhere
• Taking a break
• Walking the dog

Now you can see at a glance all of our Top-Rated Stories, the ones that Sniplits listeners have given 4- and 5-star reviews. You can rate the stories you've listened to as well. Just go to your My Sniplits page (see top right corner for link) where you will see your library of stories. Click on the appropriate star (1: hate it, 5: love it). It's never too late to go back and review a story you listened to.

After Floris Kleijne's birth in Amsterdam in 1970, nothing of consequence happened to him until 2001, when he traded his mother's tongue for the English language. (His mother still resents the trade and hasn't spoken to him since.) Since 2001, he's published stories - some of them award winning - in publications ranging from PseudoPod to Writers of the Future anthologies. Stories about space travel, time travel, an axe murderess, people with gills, and (though he's happily married) a naked man in a cage. His first novel, a road movie with werewolves cast as the good guys is only five rewrites, an agent and a publisher from becoming a bestseller. Floris likes to claim he likes writing as much as RealLife, but the truth is he loves both with equal passion.