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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...

ROAN MOR SKERRY - prologue

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Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry is a magical story interwoven with Scottish folklore. Rosalie K. Fry’s novel was the basis for the classic 1994 film "The Secret of Roan Inish". Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles whose family left the fishing life and their home on the small islet of Ron Mor for the Scottish mainland when Fiona was six. But city life doesn’t suit Fiona so at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns more about her mother’s strange ways with the seals and seabirds; she hears stories of the selkies, mythological creatures that are half seal and half human; and she wonders about her baby brother, Jamie, who disappeared during the island evacuation but whom fishermen claim to have seen. Fiona determines to find Jamie and strikes up a friendship with her older cousin Rory to enlist his help. When her grandparents are suddenly threatened with eviction, Fiona and Rory put their plans into action. DOW...