Hey, California friends. We're coming your way this November. In LA, we'd love to see you at the Getty Center for two all-star shows on November 11th, with Judy Greer, Randall Park, Ritchie Morjani, constant Zimmer, and more.

And join us on November 12th, just outside of San Francisco at the Bankhead Theater,

where Tony Hale, Jane Kasmarick, and Mara Wilson take the stage.

Whether you're in or around Northern or Southern California, we hope you come out and experience the magic of live fiction with us.

Check our website at selected shorts.org

slash on tour for all the details. the status quo is an old worn favorite sweater.

To others, it is nothing less than a straight jacket.

On this selected shorts, women ready to escape stifling everyday strictures at any cost.

Featuring Margaret Atwood, the feminist classic,

The Yellow Wallpaper, and me, Meg Wallitzer.

You won't be sorry you stayed. You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction one short story at a time.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Surely you've heard the said or seen it printed on a coffee mug.

It's a good reminder as you over-affinate that change has happened when women have been willing

to make a racket, despite those other people saying, shh, pipe down, quiet.

But life is not a library as all the poorly behaved and brilliantly brave women of the world would tell you, and in their outside voices, no doubt.

The author of that great line, the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, was writing about American colonial

witches and iconoclast like the Puritan reformer Anne Hutchison. Out of context the line easily

applies to any woman who truly shakes things up.

From Harriet Tupman to Malala Yousaf's eye,

or say to lesser known rebellious personalities who have sprung like wildfire from the minds of fiction writers.

The stories in this hour are all about dangerous women.

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