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Fireside Mystery Theatre

54.5 Yours Truly: "Ambrose"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The true story of the disappearance of a famous author gets entangled in a dark otherworldly fantasy. The final entry in our “Yours Truly” series.

"Ambrose"
Written by Silbin Sandovar

Featured cast:
James Rieser as Ambrose Bierce
Ali Silva as Lora
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Paul
Alain Laforest as Herb Hovick
Kacie Laforest as Lila Lee Hovick

Directed by Kacie Laforest

Post-production & sound design: Kacie Laforest

Audio engineering & musical scoring: Wayne Silver & The Ice Plant Studio, LIC, NYC

Yours Truly series theme music by Nico Sleator

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Production operations: Lizz Leiser
Social media: Kacie Laforest
FMT theme music by Jason Graves
Audio production lead: Ali Silva

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So you've made it this far, far enough to get you through to the end of our Yours Truly series.

0:27.6

Well, here's the capper, our final entry.

0:31.0

A poison pen letter we simply call Ambrose.

0:35.6

This show is supported by Spreaker Prime. When life and the world around us become too much to bear, well, how many of us have fantasized about curling up in a ball and just vanishing to that secret place that no one knows about? Oh, to have such powers. And oh, for there to be such a place. Sweet sanctuary, lasting peace.

1:32.2

But who is ever really ready to take such a journey, where there are too many unknowns and

1:37.7

perhaps no way back? Fact. Over 100 years ago, the great American man of letters, Ambrose Beers, mysteriously disappeared and was never heard from again.

1:51.7

No fully satisfactory explanation has ever been produced. All that remains is the work, perhaps the best remembered being his caustic and satiric devil's dictionary.

2:03.6

Egotist. Noun. A person of low taste more interested in himself than me.

2:20.0

Destiny.

2:21.4

Noun.

2:22.6

A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

2:28.9

Heaven.

2:30.2

Noun.

2:31.5

A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs

2:35.7

and the good listen with attention as you expound upon your own. Immortality.

2:45.8

Noun. A toy which people cry for and on their knees apply for.

2:51.5

Dispute, contend, and lie for.

2:54.8

And if allowed, would be right proud eternally to die for.

3:01.0

Ha ha ha ha ha.

3:02.8

Oh, I recognize who that is.

3:05.2

Check it out.

3:06.7

I am checking it out. The devil's dictionary? Oh, I recognize who that is. Check it out. I am checking it out.

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