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The Little Match Girl
- Cyberpunk Fairy Tales
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 9 mins
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A retelling of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen of the same name.
Listen to more of the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant to the modern age.
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- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Single mom Lexie Bell hopes to make this first Christmas in their new home special for her six-year-old son, Brock. Festive lights and homemade fudge, check. Friendly neighbors? Uh, no. Stanley Mann lost his Christmas spirit when he lost his wife and he sees no point in looking for it. Until she shows up in his dreams and informs him it's time to ditch his scroogey attitude. Stanley digs in his heels, but she's determined to haunt him until he wakes up and rediscovers the joys of the season. He can start by being a little more neighborly to the single mom next door.
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Heartwarming
- By Bette Hansen on 10-07-21
By: Sheila Roberts
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The Mayfair Moon
- The Darkwoods Trilogy, Book 1
- By: J.A. Redmerski
- Narrated by: Kate Reinders
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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After a nightmarish encounter with a werewolf, 17-year-old Adria Dawson loses her sister, but gains the love of a mysterious young man and his legendary family. Strange and tragic things begin to happen in the small town of Hallowell, Maine: residents come down with an unexplainable 'illness' and some disappear. In the midst of everything, Isaac Mayfair is adamant about keeping Adria safe, even from her sister whom he has warned her to stay away from.
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An average book which would appeal to werewolf fan
- By Suzanne Finnegan on 08-09-13
By: J.A. Redmerski
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The End and Other Beginnings
- Stories from the Future
- By: Veronica Roth
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems. In these six stories, Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and draws forth something startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful.
By: Veronica Roth
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- BookWorm
- 09-21-19
Sad, short story...
I wrote a review about this short story, and nothing I wrote was posted or saved... -.-
Here's the basics:
-Sad, cyberpunk semi-futuristic themed short story about little girl/young woman trying to make money selling artificial intelligence family experience simulation.
-Great narrator, British accent. Author made this short story descriptive, well written.
-I sped this up to 1.5x, nothing against the author or narrator, I speed up most narration or I'll fall asleep.
-If this audiobook were part of a collection of short stories, or were on sale, I'd get it, but for $3.95 or a credit, definitely not.
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- Katarina
- 12-21-19
Nice cyberpunk adaptation of Anderson's fairytale
This hightech interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson's original The Little Match Girl is really very nicely done. It's believable, relatable, and a lot shorter than the original which to 21st century readers is a big plus.
This story was given to me for free at my request and I provided this review voluntarily.
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- G C
- 10-01-19
GREAT READ!
I really enjoyed it! The narration was great. The author did a great job with the characters. I look forward to reading more from this author. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Mary Karowski
- 12-04-19
A tear jerking tale in any form
The little match girl is a tale that has been told and retold many times many ways. This cyberpunk twist on it is no less potent and will still bring a tear to your eye.
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- Shanna Tidwell
- 12-30-19
It’s alright
I love George’s world, many of his stories are all (at least in my mind) in the same futuristic world. This was a good take on the classic story but if it were longer and more fleshed out I probably would have loved it. As it was it’s just ok for me.
Narration was excellent.
I was voluntarily provided this review copy at no charge by the author, publisher and or narrator
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-24-22
very good
Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! After listening to this story,. I totally enjoyed reading this book. It’s well written and the characters were uniquely fantastic. I would suggest this book to my friends that like this sort of genera. this was a good book. The auditor was great.
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- Marcus
- 12-18-19
"Cool" little short
It's only 9 minutes, so I don't want to give anything away, but in typical fashion, this is a tragic holiday tale that still manages to warm the heart.
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- Mandy Buffington
- 01-22-20
Sad
I received this book for free at my request but the opinion is of my own. A retelling of an old tell set in the future. A girl is selling her family’s memories just to help make ends meat for her father and herself. However she can’t help seeing one just one more time.
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- Elisabeth Carey
- 03-28-20
A new look at a familiar fairy tale
This is, just as it says, a cyberpunk retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's story. In this retelling, the "matches" are single-use VR "experiences," created by her now-deceased father. Her father lost his job, and thus all his tools, but he still had the rights to the VR experiences he created on his own time. Then he died, and the girl's mother died, and the only thing she has left to sell now, and survive on, are these single-use VR experiences.
Some of them are recordings of happy experiences at home, before her father lost his job. But since these are single-use experiences, each can only be used once. She can either sell it, or use it for a brief escape into a warm, happy memory.
Once used, either by herself or a customer, it's gone.
It's a moving, well-done story--with an ending, inevitable and appropriate, that may not be what everyone wants, in the midst of the pandemic.
Nevertheless, recommended.
I received this audiobook short story as part of a "we're caught in a pandemic; let's do something nice" giveaway, and am reviewing it voluntarily.
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- Tina G.
- 12-20-19
Grab your tissues...
The Little Match Girl (Cyberpunk Fairy Tales) by George Saoulidis and narrated by Steve White should be on your Christmas listen list this year. If you only listen to one book this holiday, let it be this one. Highly recommend this short story.
What’s it about? A young girl is selling her families memory sticks that are now owned by the corporation as her father and her struggle for basic needs. It’s sad yet heartwarming. It’s a future tech retelling of a HCA tale. I would love for George to expand on this one more for next Christmas. His retelling would be a fantastic Christmas movie (you reading this Amazon? Hint hint…). The narrator, Steve White, did a good job.
Parental guidance/trigger warnings: hunger (family unable to meet this basic human need), death.
*I received this copy for free in an email. Not sure if I need to write this or not, so here it is.*
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