LitReading - Classic Short Stories
Summary: Humans have shared short stories for millennia. For most of that time, telling tales was a verbal process. A storyteller would regale an audience with accounts of adventure, bravery, compassion, despair, enlightenment, and fear. Stories were a shared experience, until the advent of inexpensive mass-printing processes in the 19th century which allowed most of us to read to ourselves. Yet, that desire to have a short story read aloud is still ingrained in our collective soul. While we still read books for pleasure, most of today’s stories are told via newer forms of visual media like movies and television. Consuming stories via any visual medium requires an active commitment to the process. You probably shouldn’t read a book or watch a TV program while driving, but your brain still craves a good story. Audiobooks are suitable for long road trips. But what about those times when you only have a few minutes? Enter narrated short stories. Spoken short stories are quick, satisfying snack, while an audiobook is a seven-course meal. Allow me to help you fill those moments and fulfill your need for a captivating tale with my renditions of some of the world’s greatest literary masters best short stories. My love of the spoken word has been honed by a more than 30-year career in radio and voice acting with a modicum of performance passion from decades of stage performances. This venture is my hobby (I have a great full-time job), so all of the content is free of cost and commercials. I hope you enjoy them. If you have a public domain short story you would like me to read or would like to share thoughts or comments, please drop me a line. If you enjoy these short stories, please spread the word, subscribe, and leave a review on your favorite podcast service. Thanks for stopping by, Don McDonald
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Podcasts:
Clovis takes on an overly proud mother
An entomological nightmare spreads across the globe.
Not all dragons are fire breathing monsters bent on destruction.
There is nothing like a corporate bureaucracy to raise someone's ire.
Without individual compassion, the good, old days were rarely good for orphaned or disabled children.
A young man seeks help from a stranger on a park bench. Does he deserve it?
While forward to the future we often forget the darkness that is part of life.
What would you do if your conscience no longer nagged you?
When a preacher failed to stir the emotions of his congregants he resorts to the time tested tradition of embellishment.
A young man's longing for love is briefly fulfilled on one moonlight evening on the sea off the coast of Cannes.
A rural mountain couple struggle with their differences, anger, and overpowering love for each other.
A new love springs from the conversations of two sisters and a couple of moles.
Grief and heartbreak are the typical reactions to the loss of a loved one, but other emotions may lurk within.
Twenty years after heading west to find his fortunes a man returns to meet a long lost friend.
Before he wrote Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne was a popular humor writer. Here is one of his adult short-short stories.
