Short stories, classic and new, told by Don McDonald. LitReading is home to nearly all of them, with Readastorus for young listeners and Season's Readings for the holidays.
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LitReading - Original Short Stories and Classic Tales
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Readastorus - Classic Children's Stories
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Season's Readings – Christmas Stories and Holiday Tales
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Nov. 8, 2026
The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain — A Penniless Man Is Handed a Million-Pound Note
A Penniless Man and a Preposterous Note
Nov. 7, 2026
Scotty Briggs and the Clergyman by Mark Twain — A Frontier Funeral Goes Spectacularly Off Script
Frontier slang meets the King's English
Nov. 6, 2026
Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain — The First Woman Explains Love, Beauty and Adam
Genesis, She Said
Nov. 6, 2026
Excerpts from Adam’s Diary by Mark Twain — The First Man Tries to Understand the First Woman
Genesis, He Said
Nov. 5, 2026
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce — A Rope, a River, and a Reckoning
Looking to the water for redemption
Nov. 4, 2026
The Baker’s Dozen by Saki — A Wedding Nearly Collapses Under the Weight of Thirteen Children
A Widower, a Widow, and Rather Too Many Children
Recent Blog Posts
Nov. 7, 2026
Too Many Doors
Back in July I promised you a post every week. Then I went quiet. So much for weekly. Let’s try that again. A while back, I had what I thought was a pretty good idea. Give every kind of story its own podcast. FRIGHTLY! for the scary ones, HumorUs f…