Today’s reading is the conclusion of The Baum Plan for Financial Independence by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories also called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about six minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.
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The endings seem so abrupt and leaves me wanting more.
Thanks for the reading. We enjoy your voice!
I have to pick arbitrary places to cut. Sometimes they’re hard to find in a short story. Thanks for the compliment. There’s plenty to come.