Alligators

Michael Teckman

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Audiobooks

Description

A reading from \"Scary stories to tell in the dark\" To showcase classical narative

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
alligators. A young woman in town married a man from another part of the country. He was a nice fellow, and they get along pretty well together. It was only one problem. Every night he goes, swimming in the river sometimes would be gone all night long, and she complained about how lonely she waas. This couple had two young sons. As soon as the boys could walk, their father began to teach them how to swim, and when they got to be old enough, he took them swimming in the river at night. Often they would stay there all night long. The young woman would stay home all by herself. After a while, she began toe act. In a strange way, at least, that is what the neighbors said. She told them that her husband was turning into an alligator and that he was trying to turn the boys in tow. Alligators. Everybody told her that there was nothing wrong with a man taking its sun. Swimming was just a natural thing to do when it came to alligators. There just weren't any nearby. Everybody knew that early one morning young woman came running into town from the direction of the river. She was soaking wet, she said. A big alligator and too little alligators had pulled her in and had tried to get her to eat a raw fish. They were her husband and her sons, she said, and they wanted her to live with them. But she had gotten away. Her doctor decided she had lost her mind, and he had her put in the hospital for a while. After that, nobody saw her husband and boys again. They just disappeared. But now and then a fisherman would tell about seeing alligators in the river at night. Usually it was one big alligator and two small alligators, but people said they were just making it up. Everyone knows there aren't any alligators around here.