In this episode: “Safety Man” by Tom Franklin and “My Wife’s Beautiful Friends” by Tom Franklin

In this episode, Nanci Kincaid's short story "This Is Not the Picture Show" 

In this episode: "Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home" by Anthony Grooms

“Bill” from LAST DAYS OF THE DOG-MEN: Stories by Brad Watson. Copyright © 1996 by Brad Watson. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

In this episode: "I Love You Batty Sisters" by Eugene Walter

In this episode: "Turn Out the Lights" by Michael Knight

"New Dresses" by Mary Ward Brown, published in the 1986 collection Tongues of Flame, read by permission of Kirtley Brown and the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

In this episode:

"A Luckless Santa Claus" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in Newman News, 1912, read by permission of The Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries

"One Christmas" by Truman Capote, published by Random House, 1983, read by permission of the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The work of Alabama authors deserves to be read out loud - and now it is! Join host Don Noble as he reads short stories from Alabama's finest authors.

In this episode: "Under the Bridge" by Anthony Grooms