Short Stories
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Insomnia by Stuart Dybek.
From his book “The Coast Of Chicago”. Read by Jim Trew-Frost. (13m 34s)
From his book “The Coast Of Chicago”. Read by Jim Trew-Frost. (13m 34s)
Killing Time by Stuart Dybek.
From his book “The Coast Of Chicago”. Read by Jim Trew-Frost.
From his book “The Coast Of Chicago”. Read by Jim Trew-Frost.
"I wanted to be somewhere else. I wanted to be a dark blur, waiting to board the Normandy train, in the
smoke-smudged St. Lazare station I wanted a ticket out of my life... (6m 09s)
The Palmist by Andrew Lamb.
“So young, the palmist thought, the age of my youngest son, maybe, had he lived. It had been some years since
the little boy drowned in the South China Sea, along with his two older sisters and their mother. The palmist had
escaped Vietnam on different boat, a smaller one that left a day after his family, and, consequently, reached
America alone. Now, the palmist closed his eyes and tried to conjure his son's face in his mind but could not. He
the little boy drowned in the South China Sea, along with his two older sisters and their mother. The palmist had
escaped Vietnam on different boat, a smaller one that left a day after his family, and, consequently, reached
America alone. Now, the palmist closed his eyes and tried to conjure his son's face in his mind but could not. He
opened his eyes again, and his gaze fell upon the teenager's hand”.
Read by David Strathern. (16m 34s)
Read by David Strathern. (16m 34s)
The Wrong Suitcase by Maeve Binchy
“Luggage tends to look alike,” as a woman travelling to meet her lover, and a man plotting to bring down a business
rival, discover when they wind up with each other’s in Maeve Binchy’s “The Wrong Suitcase.” And that’s not all that’s
rival, discover when they wind up with each other’s in Maeve Binchy’s “The Wrong Suitcase.” And that’s not all that’s
wrong, as you’ll hear in this lively read by Sex and the City alum Cynthia Nixon.
”Her heart gave several sharp sideways jumps, each one hurting her breastbone. It had happened as she always
knew it would happen one day. She had got the wrong case. She looked in terror and there were her initials;
somebody else called AG had taken her case. ‘Oh my God,’ wept Annie Grant, ‘oh God, why did you let this happen
knew it would happen one day. She had got the wrong case. She looked in terror and there were her initials;
somebody else called AG had taken her case. ‘Oh my God,’ wept Annie Grant, ‘oh God, why did you let this happen
to me? Why? I’m not that bad, God.’” –Maeve Binchy, “The Wrong Suitcase.” (18m 09s )
A Shock for the Countess by Carlton Stevens Montanye.
The Boulevards of Paris set the scene for Carlton Stevens Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess," a delicious 1920's pulp
magazine crime story involving glamorous international jewel thieves.
The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. (34m 10s)
The Boulevards of Paris set the scene for Carlton Stevens Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess," a delicious 1920's pulp
magazine crime story involving glamorous international jewel thieves.
The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. (34m 10s)
Katherine Comes To Yellow Sky by Mark Helprin.
The boulevards of Paris give way to the mountain ranges of the American West in our second story, Mark Helprin's "Katherine
Comes to Yellow Sky." The heroine of this quietly beautiful tale is traveling West to break away from the confinements and
restrictions of life as a 19th-century woman, and to discover her true self.
The reader is Lisa Gay Hamilton. (20m 16s)
The boulevards of Paris give way to the mountain ranges of the American West in our second story, Mark Helprin's "Katherine
Comes to Yellow Sky." The heroine of this quietly beautiful tale is traveling West to break away from the confinements and
restrictions of life as a 19th-century woman, and to discover her true self.
The reader is Lisa Gay Hamilton. (20m 16s)