Stories with Sedalia

Years after leaving Harlan’s Hollow, Lottie Marshall Calloway writes one final letter — not to a person, but to the place that never truly left her and shaped everything she became. Timestamps:0:00 Beginning 2:48 Part 1, What I Remember5:30 Part 2, What I Missed7:02 Part 3, What You Gave8:44 Part 4, What I Want To Say10:31 EpilogueSome stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. E...

The spring blizzard of 1901 descends upon Harlan's Hollow. Calhoun Reed makes a choice that will be remembered long after the snow is gone. Timestamps: 0:00 Beginning 2:04 Part 1, Before the Storm 3:40 Part 2, The Storm Arrives 5:18 Part 3, Walking 8:30 Part 4, Inside 10:18 Part 5, What Gideon Wrote After 13:46 Epilogue Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every we...

Mrs. Pryor’s store ledger was meant for record-keeping, but someone began writing notes in the margins. As the quiet exchanges grow, a simple store ledger becomes the keeper of an unexpected relationship. Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every week I bring you original stories for grown-up minds — atmospheric, unhurried, and crafted for the part of the day when the...

A weathered crate appears on a quiet porch one summer morning, carrying a surprise that changes more than one life. A gentle Appalachian tale of kindness, community, and the unexpected ways families find one another. Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every week I bring you original stories for grown-up minds — atmospheric, unhurried, and crafted for the part of the...

Fifteen years after the Civil War, a weary stranger appears beside a mountain river carrying little more than a saddlebag and a lifetime of grief. What begins as a simple act of hospitality between two former soldiers becomes a quiet story about friendship and the remarkable ways ordinary kindness can change the course of a life. In a valley in Appalachia, some of the deepest wounds are not healed...

In a bygone era, Thomas Calloway spent his summers in a place that quietly shaped the course of his life. At seventeen, he left with his eyes fixed on the future. He found honest work and built a life of his own, but as the years passed, a quiet longing drew his thoughts back to where his story began. Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every week I bring you original...

A young woman had put off a journey in 1905. She had her reasons, and yet she was compelled to take a train headed west. During her train ride, questions arose that lingered in her heart and would change her course. Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every week I bring you original stories for grown-up minds — atmospheric, unhurried, and crafted for the part of the d...

In 1867, a man who walked west until he found something of potential meaning. What he found was quietly unexpected. It compelled him to make deep personal choices. Some stories are meant for the quiet hours. I'm Sedalia Voss. Every week I bring you original stories for grown-up minds — atmospheric, unhurried, and crafted for the part of the day when the world finally goes still. Letters from f...