# Don Mcdonald

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The Right Call – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

This is a special presentation of my original short story, “The Right Call,” first released on my companion podcast, New Tales Told.For now, I’ll be sharing my new stories here on Litreading as well—so you can hear them easily, without having to go looking.Litreading will always remain a home for c…

Litreading – Classic Short Stories Live On

Every story you've ever loved learned it from somewhere. The plot twist, the heartbreak, the monster in the dark—somebody wrote it first. Narrator Don McDonald brings classic literature back to life, read out loud the way it was meant to be heard. Dickens. Poe. Twain. Wharton. Doyle. Names you know…

The Reticence of Lady Anne — A Classic Short Story by Saki

A December afternoon, a fire going down, and a marriage stalled halfway through a quarrel nobody bothered to finish. Egbert comes in for tea prepared to be reasonable, then conciliatory, then almost penitent. Lady Anne, rigid in the armchair by the tea table, declines to participate. Somewhere abo…

A Slice of Life — A Classic Story by P.G. Wodehouse

A man in a country pub insists his story is true. It concerns his brother Wilfred, a chemist of some genius, a jolly outdoor girl with a wholesome sunburn, and a Yorkshire baronet who spells his name with four small f's. Somebody is being kept behind a locked door on the second floor. Somebody else…

A Foot Too Deep — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

Nobody in New Orleans had ever made Bernard de Marigny look foolish in public. He was rich past counting, small as a foil, and very likely the most dangerous man in Louisiana with a pistol in his hand. Then a blacksmith from a far parish, seven feet of him and slow to speak, said something true on …

Tobermory — A Classic Short Story by Saki

Every house party has a guest who knows too much. A mild little man named Cornelius Appin has spent seventeen years on one problem. He believes he's solved it: he has taught a cat to speak. The company around Lady Blemley's tea table does not believe him — and that, as it happens, is the last comfo…

Care Protocol — An Audio Novella — Episode 4

The killing stopped months ago. The markets recovered. The city went back to trusting its streets. Then a man who has built a career on being the least insane person in any room walks into a rented conference room in Tukwila with a banker's box. Inside: a company nobody founded, forty-one million d…

The Romance of a Busy Broker — A Classic Humorus Story by O. Henry

Wall Street, a spring morning at the turn of the century. The ticker is running hot, the telephone won’t quit, and Harvey Maxwell, broker, is handling it all like a man with springs where his heart should be. His clerk thinks the boss is slipping. His stenographer has something on her mind. Then a …

The Eyes Have It — A Classic Tale by Philip K. Dick

Somebody left a paperback on the bus. A man brings it home, settles into his easy-chair, and makes a discovery the rest of us have missed: Earth has been invaded, and the author knows all about it. The proof is right there on the page, and it gets worse with every chapter. He wrote to the Governmen…