Fast Asleepwith Gena Marie

“The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield 12.09.2021 23:42 ↓

165 - No, New Zealand’s favorite author did not write a sci-fi, but you’ll want to check this out!

“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” by Charles Perrault 05.09.2021 35:32 ↓

164 - This version was written 100 years before the Brothers Grimm.

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 30.08.2021 27:37 ↓

163 - Magical Realism awaits you from Latin America’s Nobel prize-winning author.

“Taste” by Roald Dahl 23.08.2021 48:08 ↓

162 - A quiet little dinner with friends, wine, and a little wager . . . what could possibly go wrong?

“A Red Dress - 1946” by Alice Munro 15.08.2021 42:36 ↓

161- A first awkward dance in a dress that made “my breasts jut out surprisingly with mature authority . . .”

“The Greatest Man in the World” by James Thurber 11.08.2021 29:44 ↓

160 - A satirical look at an American “hero” from the popular humorist.

“Big Two-Hearted River” Part 2 by Ernest Hemingway 02.08.2021 36:30 ↓

159 - Fresh from war and ready to soothe his restless mind with a little fishing . . .

“Big Two Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway, Part 1 29.07.2021 33:10 ↓

158 - Finally, the peaceful healing of nature . . .

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce 26.07.2021 37:19 ↓

157 - According to Bierce, a Civil War veteran, there is NOTHING fair in love and war.

“The Stranger” by Katherine Mansfield 18.07.2021 39:09 ↓

156 - “He couldn’t move; he couldn’t breathe. He felt all his strength flowing—“

“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” Part 4 by F. Scott Fitzgerald 16.07.2021 43:04 ↓

155 - How do the wildly wealthy Washingtons end up?

“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” Part 3 by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12.07.2021 30:36 ↓

154 - What made “John (sit) there open mouthed, feeling the nerves of his body twitter like so many sparrows perched upon his spinal column?”

“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” Part 2 by F. Scott Fitzgerald 11.07.2021 38:20 ↓

153 - Fitzgerald’s fantasy continues, but not without darkness.

“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” Part 1 by F. Scott Fitzgerald 09.07.2021 37:20 ↓

152 - A fabulous fairytale about the ridiculously rich . . . with a twist.

“Beware of the Dog” by Roald Dahl 27.06.2021 41:52 ↓

151 - “. . . the small grain of doubt took root in his mind and it began to grow.”

“A Great Day” by Frank Sargeson 23.06.2021 24:01 ↓

150 - “It’s going to be great day,” but there was something uncommonly strange about it.

“The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson 20.06.2021 48:31 ↓

149 - “I suppose the phone wires were . . . cut.” This tale: horror, crime, or something else? You decide.

“The Shining Houses” by Alice Munro 14.06.2021 34:50 ↓

148 - Tuck in and let this Canadian Nobel Prize winner feed your brain.

“The Garden Party” Part 2 by Katherine Mansfield 10.06.2021 27:29 ↓

147 - “Here she was going down the hill to where a man lay dead . . .”

“The Garden Party” Part 1 by Katherine Mansfield 09.06.2021 23:24 ↓

146 - “Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast(?) . . . two minutes later (they) were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.”

“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty 04.06.2021 18:39 ↓

145 - One of Ireland’s gifts, a most poignant short story . . .

“The Listener” Part 3 by Algernon Blackwood 01.06.2021 40:02 ↓

144 - “The full realisation that I was alone... with this nameless creature, almost within arm’s reach of him, overcame me . . .”

“The Listener” Part 2 by Algernon Blackwood 31.05.2021 37:23 ↓

143- “I crept out of bed (and heard) the unmistakable sound of someone retreating stealthily . . . on his hands and knees.”

“The Listener” Part 1 by Algernon Blackwood 30.05.2021 35:47 ↓

142 - “I noticed several people at the readers’ table staring at me and watching every movement I made “

“The Night the Bed Fell” and “The Lady on 142” by James Thurber 27.05.2021 39:03 ↓

141 - America’s favorite humorist brings us the most unpleasant word ever uttered on Fast Asleep.