HIS WIFE'S DECEASED SISTER by FRANK STOCKTON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A tongue-in-cheek story about a young writer who is enjoying great success until he writes a story that meets with unusually great acclaim- so much so that editors won't accept anything else from him that doesn't meet the quality of that piece. He finds himself in a tough spot, unable to support his new wife, and not knowing which way to turn.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your |
| 0:33.9 | host to John Hagenorn it's been a while since we've done a story by one of my |
| 0:37.8 | favorite authors Frank Stockton and we have a great one for you here today |
| 0:41.9 | it's called his wife's deceased sister. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:50.0 | It is now five years since an event occurred which so colored my life, or rather so changed some of its original colors, |
| 0:57.0 | that I have thought it well to write an account of it, deeming that its lessons may be of advantage to persons whose situations in life are similar to my own. |
| 1:04.8 | When I was quite a young man, I adopted literature as a profession, and having passed through the necessary |
| 1:10.9 | preparatory grades. I found found myself after many years of hard and often unrenumerative work in possession of what might be called a fair literary practice. |
| 1:21.1 | My articles, Grave, Practical, or fanciful, had come to be considered with a favor by the |
| 1:26.4 | editors of the famous periodicals for which I wrote, on which I found in time I could |
| 1:31.3 | rely with a very comfortable certainty. My productions created no |
| 1:36.0 | enthusiasm to the reading public. They gave me no great reputation or very |
| 1:40.5 | valuable pecuniary return, but they were always accepted, and my receipts from them, at a time |
| 1:46.1 | to which I referred, were as regular and reliable as a salary, and quite sufficient to give me more |
| 1:51.6 | than a comfortable support. |
| 1:54.6 | It was at this time I married. |
| 1:56.8 | I had been engaged for more than a year, but had not been willing to assume the support of |
| 2:00.7 | a wife until I felt that my pecuniary position was so assured that I could do so with full satisfaction to my own conscience. |
| 2:08.0 | There was now no doubt in regard to this position, either in my mind or in that of my wife. |
| 2:15.2 | I worked with great steadiness and regularity. |
| 2:18.0 | I knew exactly where to place the productions of my pen and could calculate with a fair degree of accuracy the sums I should receive for them. |
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