Listen for fictionalized short stories that bring magic into your everyday life. We tell stories of things truthful yet unreal, transcendent yet simple...stories of broken bones and growing up, of sticky candy and new worlds, flash floods and mermaids, lost coins and the first step of a journey.
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Penny Magic Press Podcasts
An adaptation by Alan Plater of George Mackay Brown’s novel. An audio play performed by Orkney’s St Magnus Players. Directed by Penny Aberdein with music by John Gray. Four episodes. Episode 1 release: 10 January 2025, then weekly. Greenvoe centres on the fate of a traditional Orkney village on the mythical island of Hellya. The natural rhythms of Orkney life are shattered when a mysterious external company, Black Star, suddenly arrives to buy out the islanders and displace them from their h ...
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Black Star sets to work! The horsemen return.By St Magnus Players
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On the fifth day – Old Ben moves on as village life continues. Ivan takes Inga on a boat trip. Darkness descends on the stable at the farm.By St Magnus Players
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On the third day – a pedlar comes to the village. The horsemen blindfold Hector. On the fourth day – the children make a discovery! The women reminisce. The horsemen complete their business.By St Magnus Players
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On the first day – the village of Greenvoe awakes. The horsemen meet at the stable at the Bu farm. On the second day – business in the shop, the school and the Manse continues as Skarf recounts the history. A stranger with a briefcase arrives at the Hotel. The horsemen meet again.By St Magnus Players
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"It was the summer and no one had seen the monarchs for fifty years." Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“She was a genius in her time, born at the right moment to the right parents.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“When I go to sleep, I see Genghis Khan’s ghost.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“She was eighteen when she met him, nineteen when she fell in love with him, and twenty when they last spoke.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini S…
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“George St. George, PhD, was quite convinced that his house wasn’t real.” Written by Matt Mills, narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“I am a biographer of ghosts, the one who watches what was once here.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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Vol. 4, Story 4: Beneath the Waters & All That Live in Them
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“It is a beautiful night on that chimera shore.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“It was all over the news that week: the story of the art thief striking in their very own city.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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Vol. 4, Story 2: Alyssa Marie & the Apple Tree
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“Alyssa Marie was four years and three months old when they moved into the house on Tricklewood Lane.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our …
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“Away from the town, among the cliffs that circled the lake, a woman made her way up to the old temple of stone.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Min…
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“The worst part of the storm was that she couldn’t see her friend’s face anymore.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“It was on the prince’s first voyage out, when he was only ten years old, that he first saw the oyster girl.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to re…
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Vol. 3, Story 8: The Things We Know But Never Say
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“This was the best cargo in months. It didn’t smell or leak, and it wasn’t illegal. It might not even be worth it for pirates to steal.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or …
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“It was a hot, dry afternoon when Christina’s husband did that extraordinary thing, that thing no one else in Rustvale had done for as long as anyone could remember: he left.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about fut…
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“A crescent moon stamped the night sky warily, now more obvious in the dark than it had been earlier in the day when it was just an opal sliver on a pale blue sheet.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can a…
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Vol. 3, Story 5: Mervin Q. Peevler & the Monkeywrench Express
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“Everybody knew that if you wanted unicorn blood, you had to go see Mervin Q. Peevler.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“It is our third night in Asia, and I make a friend at the bar the way friends are made here—one foreigner sees another and starts talking.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram…
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“Many years ago, in the city of Holem, which is across the yawning Taw, there was a man with a very peculiar skill: he could remove memories.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow…
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“They came this far so that they could see the mountain, and their first thought, both of them, was how small it looked.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read…
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Vol. 3, Story 1: Down Where the Dead Play Their Lutes
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“When Hop was little, her Uncle Crumble would play the lute and sing a lot of nonsense about the ocean.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read ou…
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Penny Magic Classic: The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
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This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "The criminal could not know out of which door would come the lady; he opened either he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married." Written by Frank R. Stockton and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read original stories o…
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Penny Magic Classic: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
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This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple" Written by Virginia Woolf and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read original stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newslette…
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Penny Magic Classic: The Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit
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This summer, we’re reading some of our favorite classic short stories. "And then, quite suddenly, Nurse came in and said, 'Master Lionel, dear, they've come to fetch you to go and be King.'" Written by E. Nesbit and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read original stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay …
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Special Announcement: Penny Magic is coming to print!
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For a limited time, you can pre-order Vol. 1: Fairytales for Grown-Ups as a print book on Kickstarter. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“When Andrew was five, he discovered a magical world, as children often do.” Written by Matt & Natalie Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“Sharing a booth is the most personal thing in the world, aside from sharing a kiss or a mausoleum.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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Vol. 2, Story 8: The Death of Peter Stonewood
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“Even now, all these years later, I can picture his face. Most of all, I remember how we killed him.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our M…
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“It was the second spring storm, and the city had been waiting for it for days.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“It was the summer of ’98 when all the magical creatures of the famous Fable Hotel went on strike.” Written by Matt Mills and directed by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Min…
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"The worst part of the Winter War was watching the old people fight it." Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Stories.…
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“The land of Filigri was like every other land, except for one thing: Filigri had no animals.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us on Instagram or Twitter to read our Mini Sto…
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“It was just past midnight when Felicia stepped out of her second floor window and into the sky beyond it. This was the night she had been waiting for.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay updated about future projects. You can also follow us …
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“Thomas sat on a window ledge above the water wheel, and from his perch, stories drifted up to him, and he learned everything that he and his sister weren’t supposed to know about the battle in the skies…” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co, and sign up for our newsletter to read our Secret Stories and stay u…
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For ten weeks, start exploring places you’ve never been to before: guard the edge of an ominous lake, watch a battle in the night sky, discover a world that was always there, just out of sight, tucked away in a sock drawer. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are av…
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A Penny Magic Christmas Special + Announcement
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Three very short wintery tales, written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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“Etta stood on her porch with her hands in her pockets. Behind the house, clouds rumbled with their burden of rain. No amount of wind could blow the storm past them tonight. It simmered above her, waiting to boil and break.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about t…
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“Scott and Erin are moving. Their boxes are arranged on the floor, dishes and silverware swaddled in bubble-wrap, clothes folded in laundry baskets. Nothing is where it should be anymore.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as s…
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“Caroline flinched as the needle went into her arm.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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“It was one of the dry years, the kind of year where the sun sucks even the dew out of the earth through a straw.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.…
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“Vera was only seven when she heard the word for the first time and when, for the first time, she said it aloud.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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“At the moment of Yuan Yuan’s birth, she was baptized into noise.” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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“In Sylvia’s village, all roads leading away eventually led back again.” Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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"There was something foreign about her, a slightly fishy smell, and when she sat down the woman next to her wrinkled her nose. But Hector was intrigued. In fact, he thought she was quite beautiful." Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Stevie Martinson. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest…
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"When Diego married his second wife, they were both certain that this was the end." Written and narrated by Natalie Mills. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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“You probably remember, when you were a child, asking your father how the light came into the light bulb…” Written by Matt Mills and narrated by Stevie Martinson. Read these stories on pennymagic.co. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter to hear about the latest stories as soon as they are available.By Penny Magic
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