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Mysteries, Myths & More

Each month, the author, Joyce Keller Walsh, will present a new story –sometimes fiction, sometimes not. The narratives are intended to be entertaining, engaging, and sometimes provocative.

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Hooray for Hoosiers

In December of 2025, 21 Republican Senators in Indiana’s General Assembly did the most patriotic thing they could do: They put country—in this case, State—over political party. Despite forceful pressure from President Trump’s administration to strong-arm them into drawing a new voting map, they joined with 10 Democrats in refusing to commit an unethical, mid-term gerrymandering of districts in…

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Cry the Beloved Country

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It Can’t Happen Here: Part 2 – Betrayal -024

1Shorer, Mark; Sinclair Lewis, an American Life, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London: 1961, p. 610. 2Ibid., p. 608. 3Lewis, Sinclair; It Can’t Happen Here (1935), Signet Classics, Penguin Group, New York:1970, Chapter 1, p. 9. 4Ibid.; p. 8. 5Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter, the series, 1997ff. 6Op Cit., Lewis, Chapter 2, p. 18. 7Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons From the…

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It Can’t Happen Here: Part 1 – “I Saw Hitler” -023

1Shorer, Mark; Sinclair Lewis, an American Life, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London: 1961. 2 “Americans and the Holocaust,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal- story/dorothy-thompson 3Thompson, Dorothy; I Saw Hitler, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York: 1932; p. 10. 4Ibid., p. 12. 5Ibid., p. 13. 6Ibid., p. 14.…

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Willy for Home: an Irish Tale -022

Welcome back!

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Bond, Jane Bond -021

Joyce Keller Walsh is back!

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Jersey Girls -020

Mysteries, Myths & More will take a short hiatus. My episodes will return early in 2021. Thank you for listening!

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Requiem for a Rooster -019

Cohen, Roger, “The Last Testament of Maurice the Rooster,” in Opinion, p. A22, The New York Times, Saturday, June 27, 2020.

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The Thing About Dogs . . . -018

a “Animals have complex dreams, MIT researcher proves. Study may advance understanding of human learning and memory,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, News Office, January 24, 2001. b “Do animals dream?,” Posted by EarthSky in EARTH, February 7, 2019. c American Psychiatric Association, (2013) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.), 2013; Washington, DC d Peterson,…

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The Writing Journey -017

• “Walking,” an essay (also called, “The Wild”) by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1862, but delivered as lectures prior to that. • Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002; produced by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara in 1996. • 1917, 2019; writers, Same Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns; director, Sam Mendes. • The Maze Runner, 2014 (and series);…

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