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[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] Written to support the mission of the Royal Society for Public Health. This is a brilliant story about a dystopian world where only the rich can protect themselves from a diet of unhealthy advertising! please visit  HEALTH: FROM HERE TO WHERE? ABOUT THIS PROJECT The Health: From Here to Where? short story competition was launched in April 2017 by the Royal Society for Public Health and the Health Foundation. Too often when people talk about health, their thoughts jump to issues around health care. But the picture is much bigger than this. We want to change the way we talk and think about our health, and steer the conversation towards the other factors that have an impact on health and wellbeing. These factors are largely outside of our individual control and include things like good work, housing, education, money and resources, our surroundings, and our family and friends. To do this, we launched a dystopian short story competition. Writers...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] Like the novel "The Great Gatsby" this story examines a boy whose ambitions become identified with a selfish rich girl. Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "A sort of first draft of Gatsby." We've got golfing, swanky dinner parties, boating expeditions, fancy cars, and even fancier clothes.What's underneath all the glitter and gold? Not much, material wealth, at the end of the day, isn't all its cracked up to be. This doesn't mean we shouldn't dream big, it just means we have have to remember that nothing's perfect. And that's what makes life so exciting. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: WINTER DREAMS by F. Scott Fitzgerald SOME OF THE CADDIES were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear--the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. By Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in Tolstoy's much larger work, War and Peace , during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: God Sees the Truth, But Waits by Leo Tolstoy In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was r...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] In this tale of classic literature, Saki gives animals uncanny power, and they act to expose the worst in their human counterparts. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: TOBERMORY by H. H. Munro (aka 'Saki') In this tale, in which the divine ferret acts out the boy’s fantasy of revenge, Saki gives animals uncanny power, and they act to expose the worst in their human counterparts. The humans’ response is instant and malicious, their decision is described as if the guests were plotting the murder of a human. Because Saki’s fiction always succeeds in bringing forth the worst in people, be it greed, tyranny, or selfishness, Saki has himself been accused of inhumanity. A more intent look at the reasons for his deep sarcasm cannot fail to establish that the cruelty of his stories is the cruelty of the well-to-do society around him, the greed and vice of which stir his disgust and in turn impel him to put much of what he sees and feels o...