On this selected short, E.D. Falco reads a unique coming of age story that's set at everyone's favorite place, Summer Camp.

The water was freezing, smelled like bullfrogs. I stripped down to my underwear on t-shirt, waited in, closed my eyes, went under, patting the muck at the bottom for sharp rocks

and twigs.

I'm Meg Walitzer, stick around.

You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors

transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

We're calling this show Lost and Found.

Yes, I know what this concept suggests. Single gloves, kids action figures that turn up in

your shoes and the missing keys to the garage that resulted in that argument.

When we think about lost and found, we usually think of all the material objects we've

misplaced.

We don't tend to think of family.

But when you consider the way a family might drift apart and reconnect, it just might represent

one of the most acute manifestations of lost and found.

And on this program, two very different stories confront this idea. In the first story

parents differ about how to raise a lively daughter. In the second, the loss of a

loved one reshapes an entire family.

And this show has a special feature.

I managed to infiltrate a lively long-standing book club that read one of our stories.

Anyone in a book group would say one of the fantastic things about it

is you read things that you would never have read before.

So be sure to stick around for that conversation.

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