HeyJaredNew Tales Told – Original Short Stories
From the creator of the popular Litreading podcast comes a new collection of original short fiction.New Tales Told features carefully crafted stories new short stories that echo the spirit of classic literature while venturing across time and place—from the distant past to…
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The Wrong Funeral — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald (opens the original)
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An obituary arrives in the mail, folded in thirds, no note, no return address, and the creases are sharp enough to cut with. Roy Kittleson has not seen the man named in it since a Friday in 1986, and he has his reasons, and none of them are good. He drives up anyway. Three hours, most of it flat. He has rehearsed nothing. He is counting on grief to arrive on its own. “The Wrong Funeral,” is an original story written and read by Don McDonald from ShortStoryverses.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.
The Garden's Wall — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald (opens the original)
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Welcome to Season Two of New Tale's Told, a collection of my original short stories. I've spent the summer creating some unique tales for you. I hope a few of them bring you a bit of pleasure. The Garden was finished before anyone in it was born. The rain arrives on schedule, in the amount that has been decided. The manual has never been improved on. Nobody touches anybody. Children learn it early, with the short rod, because correcting is cheapest when they're small. Sela is twenty-two and has
The Long Light — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald (opens the original)
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Enjoy a Summer Bonus Episode Before the New Season in September Nora has come up to Lake Sabbath to do one hard, practical thing — close the old family house for good, and mark what will be sold. She means to stay a single night. But a house keeps its own memory: the key still on its nail, the drawer that sticks, a boat with a name. And a long, unhurried summer evening on still water can ask more of a person than they came prepared to answer. Short Storyverses is our multiverse of audio fiction
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