Enjoy great Christmas stories any time with Season’s Readings.
When the world turns cold, these stories should warm your heart. "Season’s Readings" is your fireside refuge from the season’s noise — a handpicked collection of classic and original tales, read with warmth and heart by professional voice actor Don McDonald. While most of these holiday tales center on Christmas, they span the season from Thanksgiving through the New Year — stories both joyful and bittersweet that remind us why light, laughter, and love matter most when the nights grow longest.
It’s the cozy corner of Short Storyverses, where every episode feels like cocoa and candlelight.
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Enjoy great Christmas stories any time with Season’s Readings.
When the world turns cold, these stories should warm your heart. "Season’s Readings" is your fireside refuge from the season’s noise — a handpicked collection of classic and original tales, read with warmth and heart by professional voice actor Don McDonald. While most of these holiday tales center on Christmas, they span the season from Thanksgiving through the New Year — stories both joyful and bittersweet that remind us why light, laughter, and love matter most when the nights grow longest.
It’s the cozy corner of Short Storyverses, where every episode feels like cocoa and candlelight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a quiet New England village where everyone knows everyone else’s business, Joan stands out for her fierce devotion and unshakable certainty. She believes she’s been called to serve a higher purpose, and with clear-eyed conviction she begins to reshape the life of her small town—one doorstep, one neighbor, one soul at a time. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman invites us into the delicate line between faith and fervor, charity and pride, and the complicated ways good intentions ripple through a community. This is not a sermon. It’s a study of the heart—its hopes, its blind spots, and its astonishing power to change the world around it.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of America’s most insightful chroniclers of village life, particularly the lives of women whose strength and will rarely made daily headlines. Through stories grounded in the rhythms, humor, stubbornness, and tenderness of New England towns, she illuminated the quiet heroism of ordinary people. Her work stands as a reminder that the smallest communities can hold the greatest drama.
If this story spoke to you, I invite you to discover more at ShortStoryverses.com, where classic tales live alongside new ones, all waiting for your next quiet moment.
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