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For eight strangers in a Los Angeles hostel, even the other side of the world isn’t far enough. The craving for a new identity and the desire to start again is something they have in common. But they discover that it doesn't matter where you are or who you are - if you can't lay the past to rest, fate and coincidence have a way of catching up with you. 

Narrated with warmth and wit, this compilation brings to life a series of tales that resonate with love, romance, the perils and Joys of Alcohol and Christmas Spirits of many kinds both fun and scary. In these accounts of the heart-warming, the funny, the dramatic and the sad, the traditions and culture of a disappearing rural Irish Christmas are brought to life with a magic that will warm winter days and delight anyone who believes in the spirit of Christmas.

This is a performance reading script, edited and as performed by Gregory Nassif St. John based on Dickens' own reading texts, academic studies, and eyewitness accounts.

We begin with a story published in McClure’s magazine, December 1899. This was the first story published under the pseudonym O. Henry. Let’s listen.

Adventszeit bedeutet für viele Menschen Shoppingzeit. Zu Tausenden strömen sie in die Kaufhäuser. Nur dieses Jahr gab es noch eine weitere Kundin. Und die kam im Auftrag der Hölle.

Two couples barely contained their excitement as they bounced down a rutted road to an abandoned plantation outside Natchez, Mississippi. This night promised to be the most fantastic Halloween night of their lives. Little did they know that their private reading with the world-famous spiritual reader would take a turn none of them thought possible. This shocking story will have you thinking Stephen King met Alfred Hitchcock to to make you question everything and everyone in your life. Buckle in for the horrifying conclusion.

The Great Smokey Mountains National Park draws more tourists than any National Park in the United States. The Sevier County government transformed the its three major cities into Christmas mega-destinations lighting up the boulevards, bridges, and businesses with festive lighting and decorations creating Winterfest. Families deeply rooted in mountain traditions struggle to hold on to their local values and business with the onslaught of large commercial interests. It'll take some Christmas Mountain Magic to save these families and their businesses.

It was Mother's Day and Robert Allman tried to prepare for the occasion. Tradition held that when worshippers attended church on Mother's Day, those whose mothers were alive wore red roses. Those whose mothers were passed, like Robert's, would wear a white rose. However, after he could only find a red rose to wear, he never dreamed, not in a million years, what was in store for him.