Morning Short
71 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsEnjoy a new, curated short story every episode. We hand-pick 15-25 minute short stories from a pool of award-winning fiction writers. Then we turn them into to mini audiobooks that improve any commute, workout, or walk in the park. Read by professional narrators.
Every day is a different story. One morning we might bring you a sci-fi thriller by the legendary Ray Bradbury, and the next morning might be a Sherlock Holmes detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Romance? We’ve got it. Narrative poetry? We’ve got that too. Mystery and ghost stories? You bet!
|Who listens to Morning Short?| Entire families. Budding writers, poets, and and authors. Immigrants trying to learn English, or improve their listening comprehension. Startup CEOs. You name it! Enjoy our fictional stories today.
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"An Adventure" by Guy de Maupassant [25]
March 11, 2016 03:23 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
"A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud." By Carson McCullers [24]
March 10, 2016 05:17 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
"The Lost Decade" By F. Scott Fitzgerald [23]
March 09, 2016 07:43 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBF. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, and he knew it. This story is a look at his hope, to escape the deadly pull of alcoholism, and to live his life again. Sadly "Scotty" died just a year after writing this. Fitzgerald addressed alcoholism countless times in his stories, and often used surrogates for himself as he does in this story, but I think this might just be my favorite. Love our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Mor...
"The Badge of Policeman O' Roon" by O Henry [22]
March 08, 2016 07:11 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBIf you like scandal, police-work, and romance, you'll love this clever little tale of two army buddies by O Henry (ICYMI: Arguably America's finest short story writer). Love our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one s...
"If I Were a Man" By Charlotte Perkins Gilman [21]
March 07, 2016 09:07 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
"April Showers" By Edith Wharton [20]
March 06, 2016 06:08 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
“The Street” By H.P Lovecraft (Warning - Read Description) [19]
March 05, 2016 06:44 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBQUICK WARNING: This story was described by scholars as "manifestly racist". So, why am I sharing it with you? First of all, it's an interesting read. Second of all, the views that inspired this story should seem rather familiar to anyone following the news closely these days. In fact, stories like these have recently stirred debate over how Lovecraft should be discussed in the modern era. This story led me to reflect on the phrase "history repeats itself" and how we can prevent ourselves from...
"Our New House" By Bram Stoker [18]
March 04, 2016 05:52 - 19 minutes - 18 MBYou probably know Irish author Bram Stoker for his "Dracula" novel, but did you know he wrote exciting narratives outside of the gothic fantasy genre as well? Love our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story...
"In The Home Stretch" By Robert Frost [17]
March 03, 2016 08:30 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBThis narrative poem by Robert Frost is a fascinating exploration of the relativity and linearity of time. Frost would know about time, having lived all the way from the 1870s to the 1960s. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like litt...
"One Dollar's Worth" By O. Henry [16]
March 02, 2016 08:43 - 17 minutes - 16 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
"An Egyptian Cigarette" By Kate Chopin [15]
March 01, 2016 05:02 - 9 minutes - 8.96 MBA super trippy, pseudo-fantasy tale by Kate Chopin. Love our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thri...
"The Little Violinist" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich [14]
February 29, 2016 15:23 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBHappy Leap day! Love our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime f...
"The Story of Keesh" By Jack London [13]
February 28, 2016 05:05 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). Jack London's attempt at a hero's tale. Nobody does rough, tough characters quite like Jack London! That's all I really have to say about this one. -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morn...
"The Cabman's Story" By Arthur Conan Doyle [10]
February 27, 2016 06:57 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. W...
"His Masterpiece" By Banjo Paterson [10]
February 26, 2016 06:30 - 9 minutes - 9.06 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). There's a bit of a meta-story in here, a story within a story. A bushman storyteller struggles to defends his outlandish tale from the Australian outback. This was written by "Banjo" Paterson, one of Australia's most famous so-called "Bush Poets", or writers w...
"The Happy Failure" By Herman Melville [10]
February 25, 2016 04:51 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBLove our shorts? Share them (and earn swag) at Share.morningshort.com. Enjoy This Morning's Amazing short story. Morning Short produces one short audiobook every morning. Get your daily story via email: (http://Invite.MorningShort.com). Melville is best-known for his sea tale "Moby Dick", so it's apt that this short story takes place on a smaller body of water. Melville's character-building dialogue is expert here, as is his suspense-building. Some of the language is a bit racially charged, b...
"After The Race" By James Joyce [09]
February 24, 2016 10:09 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBToday’s episode is: A flashy short story by James Joyce from his collection “Dubliners”. Learn more: http://listen.morningshort.com Story Genres: Fiction, Modernist, Avant-Garde, Famous books by this author: Ulysses Dubliners And many others. -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast/newsletter that shares one short story every morning. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fict...
"The Judgment" By Franz Kafka [04]
February 19, 2016 06:27 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBFranz Kafka's off-the-wall crazy story of a groom-to-be, his imposing father, and his "friend in Russia". Today’s episode is: an amazing, perplexing story by German author franz Kafka. This story still confounds critics to this day. Learn more: http://listen.morningshort.com Story Genres: Fiction, Parallelism, Absurdist, Modernism, Magic Realism, and Low Fantasy. Famous books by this author: “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka And many others. About Morning Short: Morning Short is a podcast a...
02: "Is He Living or Is He Dead?" By Mark Twain
February 17, 2016 03:19 - 21 minutes - 20 MBA brilliant tale by Satirist Mark Twain about a few starving painters, and how they pulled off the trick of the century. Get your daily dose of fiction via email. Sign Up At (http://Share.MorningShort.com). Morning Short is a daily podcast and newsletter featuring one amazing short story, every morning. Story transcript - I was spending the month of March 1892 at Mentone, in the Riviera. At this retired spot one has all the advantages, privately, which are to be had publicly at Monte Carlo an...
"Asleep in Armageddon" By Ray Bradbury [01]
February 16, 2016 06:01 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBToday’s episode is: A trippy space sci-fi story by the amazing Ray Bradbury. Learn more: http://listen.morningshort.com Story Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Famous books by this author: Fahrenheit 451 The Martian Chronicles Something Wicked This Way Comes And many others. About Morning Short: Morning Short is a podcast and daily newsletter featuring amazing, curated short stories, handpicked for you. They’re meant to entertain you while you commute or work out, help you improve your...
00: "The Princess & the Puma" By O. Henry
January 06, 2016 05:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBToday’s episode is: A romantic western/cowboy tale by O. Henry. Learn more: http://listen.morningshort.com Story Genres: Romance, cowboy, western. Famous short stories by this author: “The Gift of the Magi” “A Blackjack Bargainer” “A Newspaper Story” “A retrieved Reformation” “The Last Leaf” And many others. About Morning Short: Morning Short is a podcast and daily newsletter featuring amazing, curated short stories, handpicked for you. They’re meant to entertain you while you commute or wor...