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This episode's story is set in the simmering 19th century's sweltering NYC.  "Cordelia's Night of Romance", written by Julian Ralph, a journalist and war correspondent, shows the softer atmospheric side of Ralph's writing.  A chance meeting by an Irish immigrant teen girl and a wealthy unmarried factory owner. 

The story explores the dreams and longing for a better life of the immigrant girl as well as the desire for love and romance.

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In this episode we're sharing  "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf. 

It is not a story of grand plots or sweeping action. Instead, is an intimate journey which tracks the fluid, wandering thoughts of a narrator sitting by a fire, transfixed by a mysterious dark mark on the wall just above the mantelpiece. Have you ever found your thoughts wandering so far you can barely trace them back to where you started.  Listen in and hear Virginia Woolfe's thought path. 

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From the classic compilation Mysteries of the Missing—first serialized in 1924 by crime journalist Edward H. Smith—we bring you the strange and heartbreaking tale of Jimmy Glass. 

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Today we’re diving into a true story involving pirates and a Scottish teenage girl named Charlotte Honeyman as written in the 1901 book True Stories of Girl Heroines by Evelyn Everett-Green.

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Today, we step back into the year 1913, turning the pages of Ernest Thompson Seton’s seminal masterpiece, Wild Animals at Home. 

• Forward - by the author 
• The Cute Coyote - A look at a creature Seton felt was profoundly misjudged 
• The Canada Lynx - Into the open plains and the deep, snow-laden northern forests, we encounter a phantom of a completely different nature 
• The Mole-Gopher (aka the Upheaver) -  wilderness is built on many levels, and next Seton’s watchful eye turned downward, beneath the soil, to introduce us to an entirely different class of creature 
• The Beaver -  Seton’s field notes treat the beaver not just as an animal, but as a respected fellow engineer 
• "Horns and Hoofs and Legs of Speed" - Here, we meet "The Bounding Blacktail," or the Mule Deer. 

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We're stepping straight into the smoky, sharp-witted world of early 1930s crime detection.

We are sharing a collection of fast-paced brainteasers from H.A. Ripley’s legendary 1932 book, Minute Mysteries. These short puzzles—originally called "detectograms"—challenged readers to act as the detective, using pure logic to solve crimes in under sixty seconds.

This episode includes:

• A Crack Shot
• Fatal Error
• The Poison Murder Case
• Upstairs and Down
• Hot Pursuit
• Death in the Office
• A Question of Identity
• Murder at Coney Island
• Too Clever
• Death Back-Stage
• The Jewel Robbery

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In this episode, we’re diving into the psychological and atmospheric worlds of Alfred Coppel, a master of mid-century speculative fiction. 

First, we travel to the lunar surface in 'First Man on the Moon', originally published in a 1950 issue of Planet Stories. But this isn't a story of triumphant exploration; it is a dark, gripping look at an obsession so blinding that it leads to murder. 

Then, we shift our gaze to 'Touch the Sky', a 1955 tale of existential dread and anticipation that follows pilot Pete Moore on the final night before his own historic moonshot mission.

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Today, we’re setting sail into the deep, unpredictable waters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We have curated three maritime short stories centered around the wonders of ocean life.

As always we begin with a biographical look at our authors.

Our voyage begins with an unusual encounter in the waters around Bermuda in 'Gregory and the Scuttle', penned by the renowned American naturalist Charles Haskins Townsend. 

Following that, we dive into two distinct tales from the legendary Australian South Seas adventurer, Louis Becke. First, a darkly comedic look at maritime folklore in 'The Whale Cure', followed by a vivid glimpse into regional sea life in 'The Sea Salmon Season in Australia'. 

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In this episode we're diving into the brilliant, sharp, and deeply observant world of Alice Ruth Moore—perhaps better known by her later married name, Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

• Biography of Alice Ruth Moore
• The Woman - a piece highlighting her early feminist perspectives.
• Ten Minute Musing - brief, introspective thoughts while watching boys on a playground.
• Anarchy Alley - a walk through a vibrant, atmospheric street of New Orleans
• Snow in October - delicate imagery of an pre-winter snow

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Step back into the bustling, competitive literary world of 19th-century London with this double-feature reading from Washington Irving's classic collection, Tales of a Traveller. Through the sharp, witty chapters "Literary Life" and "A Literary Dinner," Irving pulls back the curtain on the old publishing scene to reveal how companies used to wine and dine authors to win their favors. We also kick off the episode with a beautiful, vintage biographical look at Irving's life, written by 19th-century author Faye Huntington in her book Stories of Great Men. It is a fascinating, humorous reminder that while technology changes, the ultimate hustle of the writing industry remains completely timeless.

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