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LitReading - Classic Short Stories

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<p><strong>Litreading Summer Stories</strong></p><br><p>Starting on the first Tuesday of summer, June 23rd, Litreading presents classic stories of summer every week. Don has picked out several classic seasonal tales starting with Chekov's "A Day in the Country" and is bringing back a couple of old favorite summer memories to keep you company on your travels or adventures. A summer story episode will be available every Tuesday, so check back regularly. Also, be sure to explore our entire catalog of classic tales, well read.</p><br><p><strong>Litreading delivers classic and original short stories—carefully selected, beautifully narrated, and updated every week.</strong>&nbsp;From Poe to Twain, O. Henry to Wharton, each episode presents a complete tale in a clean, immersive performance lasting anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. These timeless stories are read with clarity, warmth, and just enough character to bring them fully to life.</p><br><p>Litreading is part of&nbsp;<strong>Short Storyverses</strong>&nbsp;(<a href="shortstoryverses.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shortstoryverses.com</a>), a growing collection of podcasts devoted to exceptional storytelling. Explore&nbsp;New Tales Told—our companion series of original stories inspired by the tone and spirit of the classics;&nbsp;Season’s Readings&nbsp;to brighten your holidays any time of year;&nbsp;FRIGHTLY!&nbsp;for tales of terror; and&nbsp;Readastorus for for younger listeners. Search for all of these titles wherever you get your podcasts.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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A Rose for Emily — A Classic Short Story by William Faulkner

Host [Host Name] explores William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," revealing the tragic story of a woman and a town's enduring gaze.

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June 9, 2026

Dark — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

Author Don McDonald shares his original short story "Dark," exploring the profound loneliness of witnessing the universe's final moments.

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June 2, 2026

Miss Brill — A Classic Short Story by Katherine Mansfield

<p>On a bright Sunday afternoon in a French public garden, a lonely English teacher lifts her treasured fox fur from its box, settles onto her usual bench, and quietly borrows the lives going on around her. Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill," first published in 1920, is a small marvel, barely two thousand words that somehow hold an entire life up to the light. The band plays, the season has begun, the crowd parades, and Miss Brill, watching, decides she too has a part in the great Sunday performance. It is warm and observant and quietly shattering, modernist storytelling at its most humane, and it ends on a single image you won't soon shake. Read by Don McDonald.</p><br><p>Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888, and spent most of her short adult life in England and on the Continent, restless, often ill, and always writing. She is remembered now as one of the great modernists of the short story, a writer who could fit an entire life inside a few pages and turn it slowly in the light. Virginia Woolf, not a generous judge of her contemporaries, once confessed that Mansfield's was the only writing she had ever been jealous of. Mansfield died in France in 1923, of tuberculosis, just thirty-four years old, with most of her finest work behind her and, you can't help feeling, a great deal more still ahead.</p><br><p>Litreading is part of Short Storyverses (<a href="shortstoryverses.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shortstoryverses.com</a>), a multiverse of audio fiction devoted to exceptional storytelling, classics and originals alike. Explore Readastorus for timeless tales for the youngest listeners, Season's Readings to brighten your holidays any time of year, Love Lit for the romantics and the hopelessly devoted, and FRIGHTLY! for tales that keep the lights low and the floorboards creaking. Search for all of them wherever you get your podcasts.</p><br><p>If you enjoy historical fiction, be sure to check out Don's first novel, The Line Uncrossed available at <a href="https://amzn.to/4dUCbEL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>.</p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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What is LitReading - Classic Short Stories?
<p><strong>Litreading Summer Stories</strong></p><br><p>Starting on the first Tuesday of summer, June 23rd, Litreading presents classic stories of summer every week. Don has picked out several classic seasonal tales starting with Chekov's "A Day in the Country" and is bringing back a couple of old favorite summer memories to keep you company on your travels or adventures. A summer story episode will be available every Tuesday, so check back regularly. Also, be sure to explore our entire catalog of classic tales, well read.</p><br><p><strong>Litreading delivers classic and original short stories—carefully selected, beautifully narrated, and updated every week.</strong>&nbsp;From Poe to Twain, O. Henry to Wharton, each episode presents a complete tale in a clean, immersive performance lasting anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. These timeless stories are read with clarity, warmth, and just enough character to bring them fully to life.</p><br><p>Litreading is part of&nbsp;<strong>Short Storyverses</strong>&nbsp;(<a href="shortstoryverses.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shortstoryverses.com</a>), a growing collection of podcasts devoted to exceptional storytelling. Explore&nbsp;New Tales Told—our companion series of original stories inspired by the tone and spirit of the classics;&nbsp;Season’s Readings&nbsp;to brighten your holidays any time of year;&nbsp;FRIGHTLY!&nbsp;for tales of terror; and&nbsp;Readastorus for for younger listeners. Search for all of these titles wherever you get your podcasts.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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