I'm an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow and so I decided to get one more man to help write legal papers. I have met a great many people in my days. But the man who answered my advertisement was the strang...
Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story is called The Animals Give Themselves from the book Cloudwalker by Joel Monture, published by Fulcrum Publishing. Mr. Monture is a Native American from the Mohawk nation. He has writte...
And now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Singing Woman. It was written by Ada Jack Carver in 1927. She won an O. Henry Award for the story. Singing Woman is about an old professional mourner in the souther...
Our story today is called Charles, it was written by Shirley Jackson. Here is K Glant with the story. The day my son Lorry started going to school, he began wearing blue jeans with the belt. I watched him leave with the older girl who live next door...
Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Rainbabies, it was written by Laura Krauss Melmed. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. An old woman and her husband lived in a small house in a greenfield. They had pl...
Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Tale For A Frosty Morning, it was written by Merrill Pollack. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Ben was awakened by a gunshot. The shot noise came through the thick stone...
Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Gatewood Caper. It was written by Dashiell Hammett, Here is Harry Monroe with the story. Millionaire Harvey Gatewood had a desk as big as a bed in the middle of his offi...
And now the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Marshal in Rome, it was written by May Brisken. Here is Keg Lant with our story. Often when he stood next to his wife, Marshal reminded me of an unhappy dog. His...
Now the weekly VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Surviving Adverse Seasons. It was written by Barry Targan. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Abel Halleck was 59 years old when his wife Estelle died. He...
Our story today is called A Girl for Walter. It was written by Theodore Jacobs, here is Shep O'Neal with the story. We never knew what Walter was. But we called him, ur, idiot. We called him that without knowing if he really was as foolish and stupi...
