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WINTER DREAMS

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com Winter Dreams is a short story of love, friendship, and betrayaL. Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams—to one day be as elite as the “old-money” families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones. First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: Winter Dreams is a short story of love, friendship, and betrayal. Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams—to one day be as elite as the “old-money” families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones. First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dr...

ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In 1943 Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the holidays when he printed up 200 copies of a story called 'The Greatest Gift' and sent them out as a 21-page Christmas card, which became the basis for well-loved movie "It's A Wonderful Life" DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE GREATEST GIFT - A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern Most of us know of the 1946 movie "It's A Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart, and perhaps you also have seen the 1977 movie "It Happened One Christmas" starring Marlo Thomas, which is take on the 1946 movie. If you haven't seen either or both of these movies you are in for a real treat! Go find them now and watch! Many people do not know that these movies are based on a Christmas Card/. In 1943 Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the ho...

THE CHRISTMAS EVE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail. They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL by John Kendrick Bangs The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted, and, what was worse, the ghost did not content itself with merely appearing at the bedside of the afflicted person who saw it, but persisted in remaining there for one mortal hour before it would disappear. It never appeared except on Christmas Eve, and then as the clock was striking twelve, in which respect alone was it lacking in that originality which in th...