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Stories By Ryan Scammell

A man obsessed with time builds a house that's a giant clock.

Finally you can watch the entirety of "IMMUNE!" now released in all 4 parts (plus a prologue) at: www.immunethefilm.com Part fiction, part n...

Blind people playing baseball? Yeah. That's right. All you need is a ball that beeps. (photo credit: "baseball" by theseanster93 via flickr...

As a small change of pace from the rest of the podcast, here's a short music video I put together made entirely out of letters. The video wa...

The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You In My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title...

I just finished a live reading at Maryland Insitute College of Art's Falvey Hall in Baltimore this past weekend where I performed live versi...

Because this is a much longer piece than I normally produce, and because in writing it, it naturally broke down into seven distinct parts, I...

This project started because I was interested in the hundreds of towns around America that have been evacuated and then purposely flooded in...

THE VOICES YOU HEARD IN BENEATH THE SURFACE INCLUDE: Nell Haynes (Voice 1 & 7), Elaine Kanak (Voice 2) Lauren Fath (Voice 3), Abe Ingle (Voi...

I mean, seriously... The piece is 3 1/2 minutes. With a title like that, do I really have to write a description to convince you to listen t...

Ryan Scammell finds some pages from a young girls' diary (?) in the closet in his apartment building. He reads us something she had written...

When a woman finds the wind-chimes she made in 8th grade shop class, she calls an old friend to talk about the thing they did and why she st...

This piece is 100% fiction. The woman's voice is performed by Jessica Solce who's a wonderful actress in New York City.

As a special Thanksgiving episode, this is a story about fathers, sons, the woods, and the never-ending quest to figure out what it means to...

One of a series of short-short pieces about things lost and things found. A couple receives a letter from a friend who has been dead for alm...

We like to believe that we have control on our lives. That we can sculpt perfect moments around us. That if we put ourselves in the right se...

Or: How not to commune with foreign cultures. -- I lived in Australia for seven months in 2003 and 2004, almost half of which I spent travel...

What it means to be 20 years old. (Non-fiction)
This is not a radio piece. It's actually the last film that I made. (Which means if you don't have a video ipod you may want to watch this o...

There's a million ways to fall in love, and a million ways to fall apart. Sometimes all it takes is an email. (Non-fiction)

Liza Minnelli is downing red wine in her tour bus. The stagehands all together look like a Judas Priest cover band. Coney Island is a Ferris...

Everyone's got different ways they like to explore new things. Some people hate trails and maps, and just prefer to wander out into the wood...

For now, while there's still not so many of you fans out there, anyone who wants to write to me and send me their address, I'll burn them a...

Yeah. So this is me. Ryan Scammell. This is my podcast.

I used to be a filmmaker. I used to be the lighting designer for a jam band. I used to pick fruit, and make coffee, and pop popcorn, and hus...

Brooklyn. Why? Are you coming over?

I do live readings of most of the work that appears on this website, where generally I use a combination of live foley and cued sound effect...

Phonography literally means "writing in sound" and most of what I'm putting up here are non-fiction audio stories, mostly essays and memoirs...

You're always welcome to email your praise or death threats to: ryan_scammell@hotmail.com.

Any inquiries regarding booking me for a live reading, securing copyrights, publishing my work, sampling my work, comments, whatever, feel f...

If you like what you hear (and I hope you do) you can certainly subscribe to my podcast. It's free, and all that it means is that rather tha...

PIECES WITH MUSIC I WROTE: Beneath the Surface, Stories of Lost and Found #4, Stories of Lost and Found #2. However, up until recently, almo...

BENEATH THE SURFACE: originally aired on Remix Radio and XM HOW TO BE A MAN (...SORT OF): originally aired on the first episode of O'Dark 30...

I know some people have trouble figuring out how to get the pieces to play, which is reasonable since the interface is not particularly intu...

If you have the free moment, please check out the work of some of my closest friends. They range from artists to writers to musicians and be...

FROM REDPEPPERLAND.COM : Do you want to get away for 3 1/2 minutes? Try this: Close your door. Put on your head phones or turn up your speak...