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Fast Asleep with Gena Marie

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00:57:39

"The Hint of an Explanation" by Graham Greene

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/04/19

285 - Spoken to a bewildered little boy, "You wouldn't ever be safe in your own house. I know ways to get into houses when people are asleep." Tuck in for the resolve to his dilemma.

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00:42:46

"The Utterly Perfect Murder" by Ray Bradbury

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/04/12

284 - ". . . on my 48th birthday, lying in bed that night beside my wife, with my children sleeping through all the other quiet moonlit rooms of my house, I thought: I will arise and go now and kill Ralph Underhill." Tuck in for Bradbury's mind-boggling story. (Warning: you will be disappointed if you're looking for sci-fi.)

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00:54:38

"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, part 2, relaxing...

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/03/22

"He had been sent to the bank with Denny & Carson's deposit. There was nearly a thousand (dollars) which he had . . . quietly transferred to his pocket." Tuck in for the very dramatic conclusion.

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00:55:09

"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, part 1, relaxing...

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/03/15

282 - "His teachers . . . fell upon him without mercy, his English teacher leading the pack. Older boys than Paul had broken down . . . but his set smile did not once desert him." Tuck in for the blood-fest from the fearless, Pulitzer prize-winning author.

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00:45:32

"Louisa, Please Come Home" by Shirley Jackson

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/03/08

281 - "How do we know what the family is keeping secret? Or if she was kidnapped by a homicidal maniac, why should he send a ransom note?" Tuck in for the conclusion from this cherished author.

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00:46:42

"Louisa, Please Come Home" part 1 by Shirley Jackson

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/03/01

280 - Her family is begging her to come home, but . . .what if she can't? Tuck in for another gem from the most requested author. (Conclusion next week!)

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00:55:49

"The Crown Derby Plate" by Marjorie Bowen

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/02/23

279 - "When she brought her glance back to the door . . . it had been opened and someone, obscured by the darkness, was looking at her intently." Tuck in for this very British, very ghostly, winter tale.

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00:28:33

"The Mouse" by Saki (H. H. Munro)

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/02/16

278 - "A warm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the unwelcome and highly resented presence of . . ."Tuck in for the --anything but -- ticklish tale from the World War I hero.

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00:57:50

"Taking of the Veil" and "Honeymoon" by Katherine...

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/02/09

277 - Have you, too, suffered for love? Take heart and tuck into not one, but TWO tender love stories from the "young upstart" author.

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00:38:20

"If I Were a Man" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/02/02

276 - ". . . she was wishing heart and soul she was a man. And all of a sudden she was!" Tuck in for this mind-bending story.

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01:15:35

"The Cat's-Paw" by Stanley Ellin

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/01/26

275 - For his employer, Mr. Crabtree was the definition of a cat's-paw: a person used for the purposes of another; a tool. Tuck in for another perfectly-honed story from the skillful Mr. Ellin.

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01:07:51

"Vengeance Is Mine, Inc." by Roald Dahl

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/01/19

274 - "Then it happened. I stopped short . . . I had the whole brilliant magnificent plan worked out." Tuck in for Vengeance Is Mine, Inc., a powerhouse of a story.

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01:08:29

"The Inn" by Guy de Maupassant

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2024/01/12

273 - "It seemed to him as if the silence, the cold, the solitude, the winter death of these mountains were taking possession of him . . ." Tuck in for what is said to be the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining.

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00:56:39

"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/12/15

272 - The sweet little boy in this week's story will grow up to write an infamously terrifying non-fiction novel that will change his life forever, but not before he will write its polar opposite. Tuck in for his gentle holiday tale, a loving tribute to the woman who raised him.

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00:54:02

"The Burglar's Christmas" by Willa Cather

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/12/08

271 - A mother's love on Christmas . . . "To-night you have come back to me, just as you always did after you ran away . . . I never asked you where you had been then, nor will I now." Tuck in for Pulitzer Prize-winning Willa Cather's poignant story.

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00:47:01

"The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/12/01

270 - It's a Wonderful Life . . . Frank Capra's magical movie is based on this heartening short story. Enjoy the story-behind-the-story as you tuck in for this talented author's gem.

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00:48:46

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/11/24

269 - " 'But the law requires you to tell what you're going to use it for.' Miss Emily just stared at him . . . until he looked away and went and got the arsenic." Tuck in and along with the British rock group, The Zombies, you may fall victim to Emily, too.

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00:41:00

"Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O. Henry and "The...

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/11/17

268 - "Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the Old Gentleman had come there to find Stuffy Pete on his seat. . . But now he looked up at the Old Gentleman's face with tears of suffering in his eyes." Tuck in for this poignant tale (and one other) from the author renowned for unexpected endings.

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01:14:00

"Shut a Final Door" by Truman Capote

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/11/10

267 - "Met the divinest man. Danced with him six times, a divine dancer . . . and he is terribly, divinely good-looking," gushed the heiress. Tuck in for the disturbing, anonymous caller's opinion.

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00:34:46

"The Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant

Fast Asleep with Gena Marie ·

2023/11/03

266 - "The good man was choking with indignation and fear. '. . . how can they tell such lies as that to slander an honest man?'" Tuck in for this heart-rending story and discover his fate.

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