LitReading - Classic Short Stories
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LitReading - Classic Short Stories
Litreading delivers classic short stories—carefully selected, beautifully narrated, and updated every week. From Poe to Twain, O. Henry to Wharton, each episode presents a complete tale in a clean, immersive performance lasting anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. These timeless stories are...
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The Telegram That Shouldn't Exist – An Original Short Story
During the Civil War, the military's telegraph network was run by civilians. Teenagers, some of them. Elias Murrow was nineteen, careful, and precise....
The Sphinx Without a Secret – A Classic Short Story by Oscar Wilde
A chance reunion at a Paris café. A photograph of a woman who looks like she's hiding something. And a story that asks a question Wilde never quite an...
The Committee Committee – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
The Committee Committee is a parable set in a village where things run smoothly—because they always have.
Problems are addressed. Responsibiliti...
The Rips – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
There are things we expect from the world.
Walls stay still. Rooms hold their shape. The spaces we live in behave.
And when they don’t, we...
My Watch – An Original Short Story by Mark Twain
First published in 1870, “My Watch” is one of Mark Twain’s sharpest short comic essays. What begins as a simple adjustment to a timepiece becomes an e...
The Arrangement - An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
Every crime begins as a solution. At least to someone. This is a story about a solution. A rented room. A promise. And a man who believes he is doing...
The Doll's House – A Classic Short Story by Katherine Mansfield
Published in 1921, The Doll’s House is one of Katherine Mansfield’s most quietly powerful stories. Set in a small New Zealand community, it explores c...
Civic Duty - An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
This story is not about the America we live in.
It’s about an America that could exist—slowly, legally, and quietly—if people stop asking questi...
To Build a Fire – a Classic Short Story by Jack London
Set in the frozen Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, it follows a man traveling alone through temperatures so extreme they defy ordinary experience....
In My Dreams – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
Here is a quiet story about love that arrives too late, and lingers in unexpected ways.
About two people who find each other where they never ex...
The Necklace – A Classic Short Story by Guy De Maupassant
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is a classic tale of ambition, illusion, and unintended consequences.
In this short, elegant story, a young wo...
The Right Call – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
This is a special presentation of my original short story, “The Right Call,” first released on my companion podcast, New Tales Told.
For now, I’...
The Bet – A Classic Short Story by Anton Chekov
The Bet is a devastating meditation on freedom, knowledge, money, and the illusions we cling to when we mistake intellect for wisdom and wealth for me...
The Eternal Code — A Special Presentation of an Original Short Story
This is a special presentation of my new original short story, "The Eternal Code," first released on my companion podcast, New Tales Told. Until the n...
Litreading – Classic Short Stories Live On
Every story you've ever loved learned it from somewhere. The plot twist, the heartbreak, the monster in the dark—somebody wrote it first. Narrator Don...
Uncle Richard’s New Year Dinner – A Classic Short Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Uncle Richard’s New Year Dinner is a tender, early-20th-century family story about estrangement, reconciliation, and the quiet power of kindness. Set...
The Boy with the Box – A Classic Christmas Story by Mary Griggs Van Voorhis
This holiday story will only be available for a limited time on Litreading, but will always be available on our holiday story podcast, Season's Readin...
A Visit from St. Nicholas or 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - A Classic Christmas Verse
You've heard it dozens of times, so why not once more. Here's a Visit from St. Nicholas, was it penned by Clement Moore?
We are expandin...
On Christmas Day in the Morning – A Classic Christmas Story by Grace S. Richmond
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
While this is primarily a story for children, Christmas is the perfect time to explore our inner child and share that spirit with today’s kids. This s...
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum - A Classic Christmas Story
Santa and his friends face the most challenging Christmas in their long history as Santa is kidnapped.
We are expanding our universe of...
Christmas Every Day by William Dean Powells
For many children, Christmas is the best day of the year. Yet, often it’s for selfish reasons. Some kids like it so much that they might wish that Chr...
A Stolen Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - A Classic Christmas Story
Sometimes we fall so far that we are tempted to cross lines we never would have in better times. Feelings of inadequacy can become particularly acute...
A Chaparral Christmas Gift – Classic Western Christmas Story by O. Henry
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki
This holiday tale features Reginald, a fictional young-man born to the Victorian upper crust in England, who finds himself at a stuffy family Christma...
Christmas at Red Butte by Lucy Maud Montgomery - A Classic Christmas Story
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
The Gospel According to Joan by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
The Gift Of The Magi by O. Henry - A Classic Christmas Story
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
The Burglar's Christmas – A Classic Holiday Tale by Elizabeth L. Seymour
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
A Set of Poe – A Classic Christmas Story by George Ade
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
Three Thanksgiving Kisses – A Classic Holiday Story by Edward Payson Roe
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
The Purple Dress – A Classic Holiday Story by O. Henry
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen – A Classic Holiday Story by O. Henry
This story is only available here during the holidays, but can be heard year-round at Season's Readings, a part of Short Storyverses at shortstoryvers...
An Angel in Disguise by T.S. Arthur
Without individual compassion, the good, old days were rarely good for orphaned or disabled children.
We are expanding our universe of s...
A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
Early in the US Civil War, families, particularly those in the western part of Virginia (now the state of West Virginia), were torn apart over conflic...
The Law of Life – a Classic Short Story by Jack London
Jack London takes us into the frozen silence of the Yukon and leaves us beside an aging chief who has reached the appointed end of his trail. As the t...
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Not all dragons are fire breathing monsters bent on destruction.
We are expanding our universe of short story podcasts on our new podcas...
Old Well-Well by Zane Grey
Professional baseball in United States dates back more than 150 years. It has been considered the great American sport since the 19th century. Popular...
Hills Like White Elephants – A Classic Short Story by Earnest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is one of the most celebrated short stories ever written — a masterclass in subtext, restraint, and em...
Clovis on Parental Responsibility by Saki
Saki's recurring character, Clovis takes on an overly proud mother
We are expanding our universe of short story podcasts on our new podcast chan...