After Luella Diamond has fired the soul counters and spirits from the hotel Liminal, they aggregate into a snowball that pulls all the other spirits out of Littleburg. The sudden clarity leaves the inhabitants with only reality , and that is going to be hard. Celeste loses her powers during a seance , and realizes she may have chosen the wrong life path.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

To kick off the second season of The Serial Tales of Littleburg, author Joan Juliet Buck provides a briefing on the events of Season One, with a comprehensive Who’s Who of the denizens of the Hudson Valley hamlet where so many city dwellers fled during the pandemic. But the the veil between worlds is thinner in Littleburg , and the price of admission may be steep. We learn about the three new witches: Celeste Granting, formerly in HR, now a professional seer with an anger problem; Kenella, a rich elder who sacrificed her good cashmeres to the moths of initiation; and Gigi Larsen, a troublemaker on every level. The locals: Minnie Gonzales the realtor who stalked the creepy heir to a house she wants, Vince and Harriet, puzzled owners of the haunted Hotel Liminal, Ebenezer Shallow, the man who lost his luck through lies, and Cobbler Martin, the luminous young pop star hoping to soothe her thwarted entitlement with a view of the river. We learn about the events last Christmas , a visit that was either a collective hallucination or a true visitation, and left Vince the hotel owner and Cobbler the pop star with the conviction that they had a mission to fight the darkness. After this show, you'll be up to date on the events and ready for the next episodes of the Serial Tales of Littleburg. Season 1 is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The Littleburg witch Celeste Granting has to give up her practice and go back to her prosaic old name-- Laura Appleby-- because the invisible world has gone silent since the ghosts were fired from the hotel. Laura no longer believes in the woo-woo stuff: She will devote herself to the dreary mantra IT IS WHAT IT IS. But then she realizes that Pluto is about to go into Aquarius , for the very first time since the tumultuous years between 1777and 1797. Our war of independence and the French Revolution. What heads are going to roll this time? Buckle your seatbelt and get out the popcorn. This announces a wild ride through living history. Come back for the next episode.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

London: Cobbler Martin, having provoked a flood and a fire while singing for a shadowy oligarch in a London garden , awakens in a starchy bed, guarded by a nurse who might not be a nurse. The queen is dead. The U.K. government is keeping an eye on Cobbler, who is startled and awed by the arrival of the new King Charles. Who has some very good news for Cobbler, and hints that they are fighting the same fight .

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Luella Diamond thinks $130,000 is chicken feed hush money, and because there are no ghosts left to soften the air in the Hotel, everyone in the bar has to get drunk. Minnie Gonzales the realtor shows the house that never sells to the brand conceptualizer who's now in big trouble.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The age-old battle between faith and reason plays out at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The woman who married the devil twice, and divorced him, moves into Littleburg , which creates a crisis in the mysterious room 13 of the hotel Liminal.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The angel who brought Mary and Joseph to Littleburg two years ago --for what might have been the second coming-- returns for another world-shaking bit of business. It turns out that when the devil's ex-wife fired the demons from the Counting House of Souls in the basement of the Hotel Liminal , they scattered out into the world and caused global havoc. How do you put the demons back in the box?

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

As the world hurtles towards total chaos, VInce, the anxious owner of the Hotel Liminal, wrestles with the problem of good and evil , as embodied by his hotel and its potential new owners. His barman Don is thrilled that America can hit an asteroid in far outer space. Meanwhile, the devil's ex-wife is getting bored in the sticks, which can only lead to trouble.

Theme by Laurie Anderson

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org