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Feel Good Stories Episodes

Sometimes we need a reminder that not every day is good, but there is good in every day
March 2, 2025

AFTER 20 YEARS and LOST ON DRESS PARADE A DOUBLE TREAT FROM O.HENRY

Two great short stories from O.Henry! AFTER TWENTY YEARS-  A cop walking the beat at night passes a man standing quietly in a passageway and they exchange greetings. The man tells the cop he is waiting for an old friend to show up- they had grown...

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Feb. 26, 2025

JERSEY AND MULBERRY by HC BUNNER

A cranky old lady writes a mean editorial to the city paper about an organ grinder who was playing beneath her window, asking the city to move him off the streets.A reader replies giving us a picture of that part of the city and just how many people...

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Feb. 7, 2024

HEARTS AND HANDS and BURIED TREASURE by O.HENRY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by O.Henry

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Nov. 22, 2023

THANKFUL by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Jan. 30, 2022

A LITTLE JOURNEY by RAY BRADBURY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

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Dec. 21, 2020

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOAN by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Mary E, Wilkins Freeman

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Nov. 10, 2016

MY RED CAP by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

This story from American writer Louisa May Alcott recalls her personal experience with a wounded Maine veteran while was serving as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Alcott was a prolific writer and one of the first successful American...

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