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Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastA G-rated anecdotal story for children that explains monetized, for-profit abortion.“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C.S. Lewis
Not far from here, there was a garden encircled by a stone wall. Lacing through the middle of the garden was a healthy, productive Grapevine. In this garden, songbirds laid their eggs in nests constructed from pieces of vine that they had clipped with their sharp beaks.
The mother and father songbirds both worked hard, protecting the eggs that housed their baby birds. They would keep the eggs warm until they hatched, and then they would continue to prov...
2020-03-0600 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter FourteenThe story is drawing to a close. Moiety and Akedah have faced a variety of dragons and have learned from each one a different aspect of the transformative ability of chaos. Akedah, the overt representation of a hero, is being reborn as he wakes up from a death-like state and Moiety the covert representation of a hero has risen from the pressurized depths of hell, bringing back an unknown treasure (the dragon's pearl) to combine the known threat -the (mechanical heart). Both heroes learn that their main antagonists are not each other, but forces their own psyches.
"It turns out...
2020-02-2000 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter ThirteenMoiety had been so firmly calcified into a selfish princess, that it took the heat from the gates of hell and the pressure of the deepest trench in the ocean to soften her soul enough to be released from its binding mold. In so doing, she had, with the help of her friend, the Leviathan, defeated the ancient Nidhogg Wyrm, the titan tapeworm responsible for draining the roots of the World Tree of gratitude. However, we must not forget that the only reason that Moiety is still alive and having this adventure is that the Viking volunteered to take her...
2020-02-1300 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter TwelveChapter Twelve
The Viking and the Princess
The Leviathan and the Princess have discovered several things in the great trench in the deepest ocean: the roots of the World Tree, the Nidhogg wyrm, and the gates of the Abyss. The Nidhogg wyrm is a giant tapeworm sucking the energy out of the roots, and the ocean floor is slowly seeping into hell. The Leviathan uses his comparatively smaller size to infect the Nidhogg at a cellular level. Moiety has discovered that she can stop the influx of the universe into her black hole heart by utilizing the creative energy of...
2020-02-0600 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter ElevenChapter Eleven
The Viking and the Princess
The holes that the Chameleon’s zombie army had drilled into Princess Moiety’s chest would have killed her if the Viking and the glowworms had not intervened. The princess -in tune with her character- demonstrated her gratitude to the Viking for his sacrifice by stealing his boat and fleeing the island. She would have sailed home quite happy with herself if she had not had so much trouble with the holes. The holes exposed the world around Moiety to the negative pressure inside her chest. Quite a few random objects and an ocea...
2020-01-3000 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter TenChapter Ten
The Viking and the Princess
If Moiety had understood exactly what her problems were, we could say that she had been running away from them; however, the princess was only just now learning to call things by their right name. The tsunami that resulted from lighting Odin’s scroll of poetry on fire washed the misandrogynous mermaids away but it also flooded the entire island. The weight of the giant and the anchor inside of her was pulling her down despite the scroll’s magical ability to provide some buoyancy. Job’s Leviathan has been tasked to carry the pr...
2020-01-2300 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter NineChapter Nine
The Viking and the Princess
The Princess had stolen the Viking’s boat and left him on the island. Honestly, she did not feel too bad about the decision. That is until she discovered the holes that the chameleon and his zombified army of automatons had drilled into her chest. Unfortunately, the Princess’s chest was full of nothing, and that nothing created a negative pressure gradient which threatened shrink and suck anything around it inside of it. So far, it had inhaled an anchor, a rope, and Aipaloovek the ocean giant. This was only part of Moiety’s stru...
2020-01-1600 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter EightChapter Eight
The Viking and the Princess
The Chameleon, Shame, has damaged the Princess. Her body is full of holes where it tried to remove her heart. She is alive but dying and mostly zombified. The glow worms encased her in silk in an effort to slow down encroaching death but they cannot stop it themselves. In order to save the Princess this time Akedah must take her place. Akedah has lived up to his namesake. He has volunteered to take the woman’s place inside of the silk casing. Moiety will awake on the island alone for now.
“By tryi...
2020-01-0900 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter SevenIt turns out that a very normal looking tropical island is not what it appears to bel. Several tunnels inside the World Tree open out into various places on the island. The island is home to an evil chameleon wyrm with a mechanized zombified army of unfortunate creatures. It is also home to an ancient race of glow worms. The evil Chameleon wyrm was in the process of removing the princess’ heart of flesh to replace it with an eternal mechanical heart when the Viking found his way out of the World Tree and onto the stage of the Chameleon’s dr...
2020-01-0200 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastWarning This Is Not Your Typical Nativity StoryWhen the sounds of scuffling in the entryway of the inn surpassed that of the ruckus of the inn guests, the innkeeper knew he had to intervene. He was beyond exhausted, having worked two days without sleep to set up accommodations for travelers on a property that was not designed to be an inn at all, more of an expanded fruit-stand-way-station extension of his own home. He could hear a woman’s shrill hysterical crying, and the sound of a man’s head thumped like a melon against the stucco. “Great, another fight over a stupid whore. Not in my inn,”...
2019-12-2500 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter SixChapter Six
The Viking and the Princess
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Lately in our story, stiff-necked Moiety has been getting jerked about quite a bit. Akedah, the Viking, has had to be on his toes to keep up with the amount of rescuing the independent princess has been requiring. She had been in tro...
2019-12-1900 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter Three“Great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”
-George MacDonald At the Back of the North Wind
To all appearances the gods had deserted the viking in his need. In his frustration, Akedah fired that same arrow at the moon. “Take it back!” he growled. The arrow hit the moon and sent up a spray of shining moon dust with the impact.
Perhaps, in some cases, the viking’s instincts were smarter than his brain, and perhaps this actionable lack of philosophy...
2019-12-1300 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter Five“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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The light music grew heavier. The viking thought he could smell bread baking, or maybe it was lamb meat roasting. Then he realized it was neither. The music had grown so real that he could smell it too. It smelled like a childhood memory. It smelled like home. If home was more of a home than home had been. Like the happiness of a deeply rooted family during a winter solstice festival, it smelled good. The vi...
2019-12-1200 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter Four-4-
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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“No! You can’t tell me what to do,” Moiety fussed. “And if you would have just listened to me, and taken me home, instead of messing around with those mermaids, my father would of had your boat fixed already.”
“Your mother was trying to ‘marry’ you to an ocean troll! You can’t be serious.”
“Well, I am serious. I am going to go find someone to help us.”
“Haha,” the viking laughed, “the gods go with you,” and he compartmentalized his thoughts back to boat repairs, as the...
2019-12-0600 minSunshine Satellite Story PodcastTrailerWelcome to the Sunshine Satellite Story Podcast. The Podcast that brings you a FREE new modern mythology mashup story every Thursday morning at 7:00am.
I am your host Amanda Louise VanStratum the registered nurse turned full time story teller and founder of www.sunshinesatellite.com a free online story and poetry base for a growing tribe of people who want to live for something braver and fiercer than material prosperity.
Every week you will be inspired by a hero who lives beyond what is merely visible and reaches for what they were meant to attain.
This short form show typically...
2019-11-2300 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter Two-2-
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It is excellent
To have a giant's strength
But it is Tyrannous to use it
Like a giant.
-William Shakespeare
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Leaving his warriors to their farms, Akedah sailed with land portside and the stationary star, Polaris, at his back until he passed through the choppy Straights of Gibraltar, where Hercules placed pillars to hold up the sky.
Akedah stiffened his jaw against the thought of Hercules’ father, the henpecked god Zeus, and all his frivolous pantheon of playboy demigods. This was the gateway to barbarous backsliding Civilization, a self-righteous settlement of people who thought that just be...
2019-11-2100 minSunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Viking and the Princess Chapter OneThe Viking and the Princess
A Lodestar Story
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Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are fading away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles
are achieving for us an eternal glory
that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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Once upon a time in the mighty raging Northland, there was a wild Viking who, despite his success in conquest, never...
2019-11-1400 min
Sunshine Satellite Story PodcastThe Selfown and the SoulfiesA story in which an ancient trickster spirit gives an enchanted Selfown to a little girl intending evil against her, but it worked out for her good because she learned how to see things with new eyes.
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A beast
does not know
that he is a beast,
and the nearer a man
gets to being a beast,
the less he knows it.
- George MacDonald
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Once upon a time there was a normal girl who lived in a nice neighborhood and went to a good school. In fact, I think you might know her, or at least you know someone...
2019-11-1300 min