Today’s reading is part two of Shoe and Marriage by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about sixteen minutes long. A couple on their honeymoon stays in their great big bed at the same hotel where a peculiar beauty pageant is going on. They don’t know where they are or how they got there or how they met or when they got married. Miss Pennsylvania’s dress has 40,000 sequins hand-sewn onto it.
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Today’s reading is part fourteen of Stories for Men by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about thirteen minutes long. Erno endures the disapprobation of his mother and others before he sets out to find Tyler. He’s followed and they are exposed. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. There are over a hundred readings there now, so scroll down near the bottom of the page for this one.
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Today’s reading is part one of Shoe and Marriage by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about fourteen minutes long. He carries the tiny glass slipper in his pocket and he searches for the girl whose foot will fit it. He finds a beautiful girl covered in soot from cleaning a chimney, and he falls in love and marries her, but her feet are too big.
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ISBN 978-0-9919532-0-2
