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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Today’s reading is part thirteen of Stories for Men by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about fourteen and a half minutes long. Erno looks up his father. Another disappointment. He finds Tyler and closely escapes a police raid. 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 the conclusion of Survivor’s Ball, or, The Donner Party by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about sixteen minutes long. Jasper’s tooth still hurts. They begin to learn about the hotel, and it just keeps getting odder. We learn why the subtitle is, “The Donner Party.”
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ISBN 978-0-9919532-0-2
