Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about sudden interventions that change lives.  In Stephen King’s “The Fifth Step” a beguiling stranger asks for help.  The reader is David Morse.  In “Blessed Deliverance,” by Jamel Brinkley, a neighborhood oddball may be its salvation.  The reader is Teagle F. Bougere.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about sudden interventions that change lives. In Stephen King’s “The Fifth Step” a beguiling stranger asks for help. The reader is David Morse. In “Blessed Deliverance,” by Jamel Brinkley, a neighborhood oddball may be its salvation. The reader is Teagle F. Bougere.

Surprising Interventions

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