Heartwarming/Love/Jealousy Episodes
Stories from then that hit you in the feels still to this day.
March 15, 2026
HOT POTATOES by ARNOLD BENNETT
Hot Potatoes by Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett’s Hot Potatoes is a gentle comedy of good intentions gone wrong, centered on a devoted mother, her musically gifted son, and two very ill‑timed potatoes. On a bitterly cold evening, Mrs.Swann'son is preparing to play in the orchestra at an important social event hosted by local businessmen. His mother, proud but anxious, fusses over him as he leaves. At the last moment she is struck by a “brilliant” idea: Hiss hands must be kept warm for the performa...
Nov. 23, 2025
HOW WE KEPT THANKSGIVING AT OLDTOWN by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
How was Thanksgiving celebrated in the 1860's? After the Civil War, affairs of home and hearth became much more important to families who suffered so much loss during the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe was of the important leaders of this renaissance with her stories.
March 23, 2025
MY UNWILLING NEIGHBOR by FRANK STOCKTON
A young man builds a home and vineyard at the top of a gentle slope in Virginia's Blue ridge Mountains only to find his home sliding downhill in a heavy rainstorm. S
Feb. 26, 2025
JERSEY AND MULBERRY by HC BUNNER
A cranky old lady writes a mean editorial to the city paper about an organ grinder who was playing beneath her window, asking the city to move him off the streets.A reader replies giving us a picture of that part of the city and just how many people...
Dec. 4, 2024
THE HERBINGER and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS by O.HENRY
In The Harbinger, a run down man and his two unemployed pals sit on a park bench and devise a scheme to rob the married man's wife of a one dollar bill so they can buy themselves a beer at the local pub. In One Thousand Dollars, a spoiled young man is...
Nov. 17, 2024
TURKEYS TURNING THE TABLES by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
A little girl sits in her father's lap one Christmas Eve to listen to his story about the ghosts of the turkeys the family has enjoyed during past holidays. The story is not scary and can be enjoyed by all ages, Check out all our podcasts now at ....
July 3, 2024
THE LOADED DOG by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson
Sept. 13, 2023
THE LITTLE BLACK DOLL and UNCLE RICHARD'S NEW YEAR DINNER LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery
April 30, 2023
A SOUL THAT WAS NOT AT HOME by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dec. 25, 2022
A STOLEN CHRISTMAS by MARY E, WILKINS FREEMAN
A New England story about an old woman with no money and no support who steals a parcel of toys from the town store to make sure the little ones now in her care have presents. Her neighbor across the street has everything she doesn't- a living...
Dec. 14, 2022
LASTING LOVE and HIS AVENGER by GUY de MAUPASSANT
1001 Classic Short Stories Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Nov. 23, 2022
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING and A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Oct. 19, 2022
A TINY LITTLE THING and ANDROCLUS AND THE LION
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by James Baldwin
Feb. 13, 2022
BREAD and THAT IOWA TOWN from PRAIRIE GOLD
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Pioneer Gold
June 7, 2021
THE MESSENGERS AT THE WINDOW by HENRY VAN DYKE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Van Dyke
April 12, 2021
A WICKED WOMAN by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Jack London
Sept. 28, 2020
UNCLE JESSES LIFEBOOK and THE FAMILY OF THE VORDOULAK
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Aug. 31, 2020
A LICKPENNY LOVER and NEW YORK BY CAMPFIRE LIGHT by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by O.Henry