 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to the first episode of Shorties. No, I don't know if I'm gonna call it that or not, but I wanted to go through Scribe's short story stuff. They usually do a one-off by a popular author and today we're talking about Chuck Pollanick's People, Places, Things. I grabbed this one because it was short and I wanted to read something quick. I also wanted to read something non-fiction and I'm glad I did pick this one up and yes I'm kind of stealing. If I make this short ease series, yes, I am kind of ripping off well-read Beard, but he grabbed my top five Friday, so we're even. Anyways, no, Beard is a good friend of mine. So nothing but respect for him and I like this idea, so I'm gonna try it out. If you guys like it, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. But if you want to read this story, it is free on Scribe. If you want a free month of Scribe and you want to help out my kids for every free month that people sign up for, they get a free month and no, it's not a sponsorship. It's just kind of like an affiliate reward program where they give me a free month every time someone signs up and I have free months all the way up until 2025, so I'm working on getting my kids a nice little buffer because they listen to Scribe for educational purposes and for fun. So it keeps them reading, keeps them happy. So if you want to help out, I appreciate you, links down there in the doobly-doo. This one is very short. It's, of course, it's a short nonfiction piece, short. I don't want to call it a short story, but it's a short piece of nonfiction. And it is about certain, you know, snapshots of Chuck Pollinick's life. Of course, we're not going to go over character pacing and dreading because this is nonfiction, but I did learn some things that I didn't know. And the number one thing is there is a section he talks about. I had no idea now this might make some people uncomfortable because we're going to be talking about bestiality for a very, very brief second. But I unfortunately have seen the video two men, one horse. I've seen a lot of these things. You can call it research. You can call it just maybe abnormal curiosity. But I didn't know that the man who took horse cock to the colon in that video after spreading male pheromones on his booty, I didn't know he died. But he did. He did not survive. And people have told me since I started talking about Pollinick's piece that there is like a documentary about this or there's an article or something. I can't remember what it is. I'm not sure I want to watch it. The video itself was disturbing. I only watched it one time. I was like, oh, that had to have hurt. Yeah, it hurt so much that the dude died. But Chuck, Chuck Pollinick, I've always noticed that he gives me these little tidbits of information, even in his fiction works that I'm like, you know what? I never would have considered and I never would have considered following up on that story. And that's what I took away with from this one is every single section. And we're going to talk about how the book is broke. The story is broken up here in a second. But every single section, I learned something a little bit new or I learned something interesting. And if you guys can hear the train in the background, my apologies, this might picks up being near everything. And I won't know until until editor E starts working on it. But the the story, if it the actual text version with the pictures is on scribe also in text so that you can read read the book and look at the pictures yourself. What I thought was cool about the audio book is the photos and all the images are so important to what he's telling you that he has the the narrator describe each picture in detail. And I thought that was wonderful. I didn't even have to I didn't feel the need to go back and look at the text version to look at the images because the descriptions of those images were so spot on. He describes artwork. He describes I think a portrait, all different kinds of stuff he describes. And it's so well done. I'm not sure if Pollinic wrote those sections for the narrator or if the narrator did it himself. I'm pretty sure Pollinic probably did it or someone else you know that writes ad copy did it, whatever. But I enjoyed reading the descriptions of these pictures or not well listening to the description of these pictures. This is like I said, this is a very short piece. It's only 43 minutes long if you listen to it. And I listen at times two speeds of 21 and a half minutes. I had a lot of fun with that. I'm going to get I'm going to give it five stars because it was interesting. It was entertaining. And I think it was the perfect length. I haven't read much of Pollinic's Pollinic's short fiction, not short fiction, but his nonfiction. But I'm probably going to go back and search it out now just because I like the way he writes and it may be a nice palette cleanser since I haven't liked his fiction. I have not read the invention of sound yet. That's coming up before the end of the year, though. It's probably going to be my next read. But so much for this being a short video. Beard does shorts, shorts on shorts, I believe is the is the series name. I'm not a huge fan of short fiction, but I like watching everything that Beard does. With me, I'm too long-winded and I ramble as you can hear right now. So anyway, it's a it's a whole last video you got today. Anyways, so have you listened to or have you read People Places Things by Chuck Pollinic? If you have, let me know down in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, you hated it, you felt mad about it. If you felt any of those things, let me know in detail so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E. You have an U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.