
Something Pretty
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $3.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Jessica Joens
-
By:
-
Erik Schubach
About this listen
This post-apocalyptic dystopian short story follows Elizabeth, a mechanical and chemical engineer who used to work for a rapid prototyping firm. She uses the skills from her former life to provide for her and the woman she took under her protection, Melissa.
The two seem to thrive in adverse conditions to bring semi-modern conditions to their hidden camp.
But even after the world ends, you sometimes need something pretty.
©2016 Erik Schubach (P)2016 Erik SchubachListeners also enjoyed...
-
Intern
- Elfed in New York
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Jennifer Darnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An aspiring investigative journalist, Killishia Renner, finds out with the rest of the world that she is an elf when she manifests elvish physical traits on the air during the tree lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center in New York. It challenges everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Intern follows the hurdles she must overcome as she learns about being an elf while facing the uncomfortable popularity of being elfed in New York.
-
-
Loved it
- By Jeannie on 01-15-22
By: Erik Schubach
-
Scythe
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Jessica Joens
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This paranormal short story follows Lischca Fonteneau, who takes an internship at the antiquities museum of the city she had finally settled in. She feels that she has finally ceased her lifelong wanderings. Her boss, Kimoura Kaga, seemed hauntingly familiar to her and she couldn't place exactly why. Lischca believes she is finally rid of the curse that had hounded her since the day she became an adult. But the powers that be had other plans for her.
-
-
A Great Short Story of a Young
- By zenabuff on 07-16-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
Oops
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This young adult sci-fi/comedy short story follows a group of alien girls who just graduated school and the madcap road trip they take to go surfing with the popular boys in another star system. Teenage hijinx ensue and accidents soon follow in the Earth system. Oops.
By: Erik Schubach
-
The Bridge: Trolls
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Tahliah Ambrose
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evangeline Kane is thrust into a world and a role she never asked for. She finds herself questioning her sanity as she finds herself bound to a bridge as its Troll when the previous champion died in her arms. The gateway from the Under-Veil to the city of Cincinnati lies unprotected, open to malicious fae intent on chaos and corruption of the mortals that dwell in it, if she does not stand against them.
-
-
3 star listen
- By Kimberly on 11-20-22
By: Erik Schubach
-
A Little Favor
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This short story is set in Europe before the start of World War Two, Jillian tours the clubs as a jazz singer to put a little adventure into her life. She gets more than she bargains for when she does a little favor for the girl who has her eye. She winds up running for her life and discovering a calling that gives her a purpose in life that is bigger than herself.
-
-
Just A Little Favor She Said
- By Kitt on 10-04-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
MUB: Monster Under the Bed
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This short story follows two new mothers and their struggles between new and old traditions. Hilarity ensues as a slightly used MUB (Monster Under the Bed) helps their daughter in a rite of passage. Parenting will never be the same.
-
-
Love love love
- By darc on 05-31-18
By: Erik Schubach
-
Intern
- Elfed in New York
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Jennifer Darnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An aspiring investigative journalist, Killishia Renner, finds out with the rest of the world that she is an elf when she manifests elvish physical traits on the air during the tree lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center in New York. It challenges everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Intern follows the hurdles she must overcome as she learns about being an elf while facing the uncomfortable popularity of being elfed in New York.
-
-
Loved it
- By Jeannie on 01-15-22
By: Erik Schubach
-
Scythe
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Jessica Joens
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This paranormal short story follows Lischca Fonteneau, who takes an internship at the antiquities museum of the city she had finally settled in. She feels that she has finally ceased her lifelong wanderings. Her boss, Kimoura Kaga, seemed hauntingly familiar to her and she couldn't place exactly why. Lischca believes she is finally rid of the curse that had hounded her since the day she became an adult. But the powers that be had other plans for her.
-
-
A Great Short Story of a Young
- By zenabuff on 07-16-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
Oops
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This young adult sci-fi/comedy short story follows a group of alien girls who just graduated school and the madcap road trip they take to go surfing with the popular boys in another star system. Teenage hijinx ensue and accidents soon follow in the Earth system. Oops.
By: Erik Schubach
-
The Bridge: Trolls
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Tahliah Ambrose
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evangeline Kane is thrust into a world and a role she never asked for. She finds herself questioning her sanity as she finds herself bound to a bridge as its Troll when the previous champion died in her arms. The gateway from the Under-Veil to the city of Cincinnati lies unprotected, open to malicious fae intent on chaos and corruption of the mortals that dwell in it, if she does not stand against them.
-
-
3 star listen
- By Kimberly on 11-20-22
By: Erik Schubach
-
A Little Favor
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This short story is set in Europe before the start of World War Two, Jillian tours the clubs as a jazz singer to put a little adventure into her life. She gets more than she bargains for when she does a little favor for the girl who has her eye. She winds up running for her life and discovering a calling that gives her a purpose in life that is bigger than herself.
-
-
Just A Little Favor She Said
- By Kitt on 10-04-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
MUB: Monster Under the Bed
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This short story follows two new mothers and their struggles between new and old traditions. Hilarity ensues as a slightly used MUB (Monster Under the Bed) helps their daughter in a rite of passage. Parenting will never be the same.
-
-
Love love love
- By darc on 05-31-18
By: Erik Schubach
-
Lost in the Woods
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Mia DuBois
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On her first outing to the forest with her mother, Rain finds herself running for her life from ravenous wolves when she gets lost in the woods. Her mother always taught her than no matter how big you are, there is always something bigger and badder than you out there.
-
-
surprise
- By Megan A Field on 07-21-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
Sparo Rising
- Blade of Wexbury
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Brenda McGinnis
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Almost 3,000 years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Verna had always dreamed of becoming a knight and protector ever since she was a child, and a stranger gave his life to save her family from marauders.
-
-
Great Start to a Spin Off Story Of Techromancy
- By TClrk on 04-24-22
By: Erik Schubach
-
Flotilla: Making Waves
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Claire Buchignani
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lenore Statham, the runner for the Flotilla Project, had been at her lowest when as he was found by Angie Wells and Paya Doshi and brought into the fold. She learned how to be strong again and break the shackles her old life had hobbled her with. While Paya is out making waves in London, Lenore is assigned as the driver for the contractor, McGrath, who is renovating a building for the Flotilla, which will allow people who had fallen upon hard times to have a place to call their own. The problem? Lenore finds McGrath to be the most infuriating woman on the planet.
-
-
Found family
- By Snow on 11-16-23
By: Erik Schubach
-
Snack Run
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This short story follows two ex-employees of an online gaming company as they struggle to find their way in a dystopian future that has no mercy for the weak. They have each other's backs as they go on a snack run. Heather and Emma have the munchies. Things just got real.
-
-
Way too adorkable :)
- By Kindle Customer on 05-07-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
Misadventures of Victoria Davenport
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this short story, Vicky is introduced to Oxford and quickly shuffled off campus as not to embarrass the Dean. She finds a new roommate, Candice, and decides it is her duty to find her a boyfriend. Because "I'd so make an awesome matchmaker!" She inadvertently succeeds in her own hyper-loveable fashion. We also learn some of the reasons behind her dichotomy of genius and scatterbrained personality, and the reason she left her friends and family to attend Oxford.
-
-
Another Favorite
- By Lifeisshort on 12-03-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
The Hollow
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This novella occurs 15 years after Ichabod Crane rid Sleepy Hollow of the wraith of a fallen Hessian soldier, the Headless Horseman, which terrorized the village. Now word has spread of the Horseman's return. Ichabod's daughter, Imelda, answers the call to investigate and stop the Horseman at all costs. Armed with her father's sword, fighting prowess, and sharp mind, Imelda uncovers the secrets the Hollow has hidden for so long. New suspicions and old loves complicate her mission, as she finds that all is not as it seems in the little New England town.
-
-
Excellent book
- By Todd (Toad) Vogel on 01-18-17
By: Erik Schubach
-
Djinn: Cursed
- New Sentinels, Book 1
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While out celebrating her 21st birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicate the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not. When she finds herself with wings as a result of an errant wish, she must enlist the help of some new friends to try to end the curse that plagues her line.
-
-
A whole new world
- By Kitt on 01-22-17
By: Erik Schubach
-
Fleas
- The Paranormals, Book 1
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Sterling Mulbry
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fleas is the first in a series of young adult novellas that follow three friends with paranormal powers as they graduate from school and start an odd-jobs business together. Steph Ryder is a lycan shifter, but she is underpowered - what is known as a stringer. She can't shift into her full werewolf form, but she can manage to take the form of a fox. Steph must find out who framed her best friend, Penny, for a theft at the high school that got her expelled just days before graduation.
-
-
Funny and funny
- By Joel on 10-07-16
By: Erik Schubach
-
The Pike: Ships in the Night
- By: Erik Schubach
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The playfully evil sisters, Zoey and Eve, play matchmaker from their bakery, The Pike, in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced by the numbers and math with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions. Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express. When she meets an ex-firefighter, Allison, she finds herself fighting to understand all the new feelings rising inside.
-
-
cute love story!
- By D on 04-14-18
By: Erik Schubach
-
After It Happened: Publisher's Pack
- After It Happened, Book 1, 2
- By: Devon C. Ford
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This omnibus edition contains Survival (book 1) and Humanity (book 2) of the After It Happened series.
-
-
I really wanted to like these series
- By Midwestbonsai on 03-17-18
By: Devon C. Ford
-
Last Stand: The Complete Box Set
- By: William Weber
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Four audiobooks in one box set: Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse, Last Stand: Patriots, Last Stand: Warlords, and Last Stand: Turning the Tide. John Mack, a prepper and former soldier, struggles to save his family and community after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) takes out the country's electrical grid. With most electronics, communications, and transportation destroyed in a matter of seconds, the nation quickly collapses into anarchy. Threats emerge from enemies both foreign and domestic.
-
-
Mixed feelings on "The Last Stand" series
- By filmakr on 11-03-18
By: William Weber
-
Victim Zero
- The Fall Book 1
- By: Joshua Guess
- Narrated by: Joseph Morton
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It was meant to change the world. To cure the incurable and rebuild the broken. In the right hands, the organism known as Chimera had the potential to alter the course of human civilization for the better. Instead it was abused, rushed. The resulting outbreak caused the dead to rise and shattered everything man had built.
-
-
Brilliant beginning then someone else took a turn?
- By M. Bowles on 02-23-16
By: Joshua Guess
What listeners say about Something Pretty
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Megan A Field
- 07-21-16
pretty good
i was just starting to really get into it. starting to really like the main character and then it ended. i wish there was more.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 07-16-16
Something Pretty
Any additional comments?
Another fine story by Erik Schubach. The only problem i have with it, is that it is a short story and not a full book. It feels like there is soo much more story to be told here yet. But no matter what it is still a good read/listen.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
- zenabuff
- 07-16-16
Excellent, Survivalist Short Story after Earth Hit by Meteor and Nukes
Earth has been hit first by a large Meteor, then the Government's left use Nukes on each other, now people are just trying to survive best they can on there own or in crazy groups who might eat you for food. Its not a nice world, Stepping into that world today is Liz on her Electronic Bike, not for food or for something they really need but for something pretty for her girl. The world has not changed completely. The story is so very well written as are all Mr. Schubach's, I think I have become his biggest Fan. He always deliver strong stories, with strong characters! This is a joy to listen too, even if you are not a strong sci-fi fan, the story of young love (for one woman for another) and the lengths she is going just to get her something pretty.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kath
- 07-18-16
great short story
What did you love best about Something Pretty?
The scene in which it's set
What did you like best about this story?
The stuff we do for a loved one
What about Jessica Joens’s performance did you like?
Jessica did a great job her voice held setting the scene
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
something pretty :)
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jessica
- 07-17-16
Cute short story
The story was fascinating, a lot of the elements were fun. The characters weren't bad. The narrative could have had more feeling.
That's not to say Jessica is bad as a narrator, she's got potential to grow but she has a constant tone in here voice that just READS the story as it sounds. Not enough inflection. Well maybe here and there like in the last two chapters. I chalk it up to nervousness. Other than that, I enjoyed the story. Good on you Eric
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 10-03-16
Hm...
The story was intense (in a good way) but the narration was a bit off... it didn't flow very well with the plot.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- LMG
- 07-26-18
Yuk
MC's thought process about love interest was mysogynistic/anti-femins. Really hope most people (any gender/orientation) don't think that way.... After TEOTWAWKI the "hero" values a person/romantic partner so little as to think "I don't know why I keep her around"... Yuk...
Also re: writing style - really needs a refresher on show, don't tell.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!