205 | Intermediate - Short Story: The Ice-hai...

Title: The Second SarahLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionMaya Chen has spent twenty-six years believing herself an ordinary woman with an unremarkable past. A single data breach notification changes everything: she is, in fact, a human clone, secretly created from the genetic mat ...  Show more

Title: The Songs We InheritLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionAmerican singer Michelle Torres travels to Havana to record a collaborative album, drawn instantly to the extraordinary talent of guitarist Javier Cruz. But Javier carries a carefully guarded family wound: a grandfa ...  Show more

Gerda has lost her best friend. Wherever could he have disappeared to? Join her on an epic adventure through wild and dangerous lands in her efforts to rescue him from the treacherous Snow Queen!!Please Subscribe, rate and review!Bonus Material available weekly on Patreon! https: ...  Show more

Snow can be a calming presence. But it can also act as a veil of secrecy, covering up things we’d rather leave alone. Today’s stories rise up from those icy, frigid sheets and enter our homes, turning our warm bodies… into frozen souls. First, Sapphire shares the grisly tale of S ...  Show more

In this episode…Is she a man-eating crone?Is she a lonely wanderer?Or is she a sensual matriarch?However you define her, she’s the yama-uba—Japan’s legendary mountain witch.Notes and sources at the podcast episode website.Donate to RJL's Patreon.Let RJL know what you think! (Cont ...  Show more

Amidst Japan’s highest peaks, a kindly woman provides weary travelers with food and shelter — if they obey her rules. If they don’t, the Yamauba reveals the demon inside of her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices