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Welcome to Stories where each week I narrate a short story by a good writer. Maybe you are a fan of true crime. I love a good true crime story too. But sometimes you"ve got to take a break. You"ve got to have some vegetables with that meat or meat with your vegetables. Whatever you"re in to, take a minute to relax, sit back and listen to some of the best stories ever written. You can listen to Stories on Tik Tok, Youtube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio and Instagram. And if you

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00:24:51

Chapter 5: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia...

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2025/02/21

Julia meets all kinds of people on the shores of the Black Sea to practice speaking Russian with.

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00:17:58

The Red Crown by Mikhail Bulgakov

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2025/02/14

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1891 and died inMoscow, Russia in 1940. He died from a kidney disease inherited from his father. He was only 48 years old. He was a physician but decided to devote his time to writing. He wrote a lot about the horrors of the Russian civil war (November, 1917 to October 1922). He is famous for writing ‘A Dog’s Heart’ , 'The White Guard' and ‘The Master and Margarita’which was published after he died.The Red Crown takes place during the Russian civil war

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00:06:52

Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain

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2025/02/07

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri and died in Connecticut in 1910. In 1909 Mark Twain made this comment “I came in with Halley's Comet, It is coming again next year. The Almighty has said, no doubt, 'Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together. '” He died on April 21, 1910—one day after the comet had once again reached its perihelion. He is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom

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00:10:29

Change by Theodore Dreiser

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2025/01/31

Theodore Dreiser was an American writer born in Indiana in 1871 and died in Hollywood, California in 1945. He was best known for his novels “An American Tragedy” based on the murder of Grace Brown in Upstate New York in 1906, and “Sister Carrie”. Both novels were made into movies. He grew up extremely poor and was the 12th child of 13 children. His father was a German immigrant. His mother was Mennonite.H L Menken scholar and critic wrote, “He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling,

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00:05:09

Letter by Union Officer Sullivan Ballou

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2025/01/24

In 1861, a Union officer named Sullivan Ballou, assigned to the Grand Army of The Potomac, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He has a wife and two sons waiting for him at home. In the event of his death, he hopes that this letter will ease her pain. He does everything he can to give her comfort and encouragement. It is one of the most noble things I have ever read. What stands out is not only his love and commitment to his wife but also to his country. Hestates that he fights

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00:40:16

Squeaker's Mate by Barbara Baynton

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2025/01/17

Squeaker’s Mate is about Squeaker, a lazy, conniving, good for nothing husband, and his mate, a strong woman who is capable, conscientious and does all the work whenever they go out on a job. She suffers a severe work-related injury, and becomes incapacitated; unable to work. Squeaker, true to his nature, takes the easy way out, neglecting and abusing her in the process. However, the woman has another mate who has seen and heard everything, who has been with her from the very start. He thinks, that

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00:32:56

Chapter 4: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia...

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2025/01/10

The Soviet Union ceased to exist on New Year’s Eve, 1991. The new country, called the Russian Federation, was set to embrace democracy and a market economy. The problem was that no one had any idea how to transform the world’s largest country into a free market state. And, what’s more, there was no historical precedent for this. What ensued was severe economic chaos. Essential items for everyday lifewere unavailable in traditional retail stores. The entire system of distributing goods around the

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00:17:34

The Skylight Room by O. Henry

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2025/01/03

O. Henry was born William Sydney Porter in North Carolina in 1862 and died in New York City in 1910 at the age of 47. In 1895, he was charged with embezzlement and fled to the Honduras where he started to write a novel in which he coined the term, “banana republic”. He returned to the States when he found out that his wife was dying of tuberculosis. He started to serve his 5 year prison sentence in 1898 but was let out on good behavior. He married a second time butshe left him after 2 years. He had

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00:24:21

The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen

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2024/12/27

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark in 1805 and died in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1875. He wrote plays, novels, poems, autobiographies and travel stories but what he is most remembered for are his stories for children. Andersen was born into poverty and had dreams of becoming an actor. The first story he wrote was self-published and was an immediate success. His fairy tales are popular with adults and children because he writes about feelings that an adult can sympathize with while

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00:27:48

Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock

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2024/12/20

Stephen Leacock was born in England in 1869. When he was six his family moved to Ontario, Canada where they lived on a farm on Lake Simcoe. The farm failed but the family survived by money sent from Stephen’s wealthy grandfather. Leacock’s father was an alcoholic and left his mother. However, his grandfather helped him, and his brothers, enroll in an elite private school in Toronto where he was at the top of his class. He started writing short pieces of humor and fiction to supplement his income

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00:22:12

Chapter 3: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia...

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2024/12/13

Julia lands in Adler, Russia on the border of Georgia and where the Sochi airport is located. She is now in the southernmost reaches of the Caucasus Mountains where this mountain range meets the Black Sea. This region of the world has seen empires battle for dominance, and yet the Caucasus mountains themselves remain largely unexplored. This stretch of the Black Sea coast from Adler, Russia to Sukhumi, Georgia was, at one time, the epicenter of the slave trade for the entire world. Find out more

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00:29:14

A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

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2024/11/29

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for writing “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. He was born inUpstate New York in 1856 and died in Hollywood, California in 1919. He was 62 years old. He was named Lyman after his uncle but preferred Frank instead. When Baum was 30 years old his first book was published. It was about the mating and rearing of Hamburg chickens. He went on to write 41 novels, 83 short stories, 200 poems and many screenplays. He tried very hard to get his work on screen

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00:25:15

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

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2024/11/22

Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright born in Dublin Ireland in 1854 and died in Paris, France in 1900 at the age of 46. He wrote The Happy Prince in 1888. What is wrong with reading a children’s story if you are an adult? They are simple and refreshing while being entertaining and often have a message that we, as adults, may have forgotten. Some of them are classics and there is a reason why generations of children grow up having read them. They are a part of our culture;

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00:16:30

The Interlopers by Saki

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2024/11/15

I think that had Saki not had such cruel and unforgiving guardians as the 2 aunts who raised him, we would not have the gems that he wrote later on in life. Saki is the pen name of Hector Hugh Monroe born in Burma in 1871. While visiting England in 1872, his mother Mary wascharged by a cow. She was so shocked that she miscarried and died days later. Because of this, his father shipped their 3 children back to England. He was only 2 years old when he was sent to live with his grandmother and two

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00:17:46

Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin

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2024/11/08

Désirée's Baby is a tragedy written in 1893. It takes place in rural Louisiana before the abolition of slavery. It is about inter-racial marriage, but not in the way one might think of it today. Ignorance is bliss, they say, until you find out the truth, but by then it’s too late.

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00:17:43

The Untold Lie by Sherwood Anderson

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2024/11/01

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer born in Camden, Ohio in 1876 and died in Colon, Panama in 1941. He was 64 years old. He was influenced by Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and the Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev. His writing is personal, and almost autobiographical. He talks from the heart without much embellishment or sentimentality.Some of us might feel as if we lead lives of quiet desperation. Maybe there are even times when a person feels trapped by circumstance. When they think they made a

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00:13:42

Chapter 2: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia...

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2024/10/25

Chapter two of "In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff". Julia arrives in Moscow.

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00:42:54

The Face by E. F. Benson

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2024/10/18

Edward Frederic Benson was born in Berkshire, England in 1867, and died from throat cancer on February 29, 1940 at the age of 72 in London, England. His father, Edward White Benson, was Archbishop of Canterbury. His parents had 6 children and no grandchildren.Benson was homosexual and never married. He was a very prolific writer and known for his memoirs and biographies, including one of Charlotte Bronte. The Face is about a young woman who has it all. She lives in a beautiful home with a loving

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00:21:59

A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

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2024/10/11

Mark Twain was an American writer, publisher, humorist and entrepreneur. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are his most famous stories as well as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” William Faulkner called him “The Father of American literature”. A Ghost Story is about a ghost who makes an embarrassing mistake. We all make mistakes and ghosts are human too, aren’t they? Well, at least they were human at one point. Only Mark Twain

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00:34:23

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

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2024/10/04

Because we are now in the scary season of October, I have for you some horror and ghost stories that are absolute classics. The first one is written by William Wymark Jacobs born in London, England in 1863. Even though W.W. Jacobs is best known for this one horrorstory, The Monkey’s Paw, he was actually a prolific writer of humorous stories. He wrote mostly about sailors and their misadventures on land. The Monkey’s Paw has been adapted for film, radio, and tv, in more than 25 shows and movies,

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