An Unfinished Christmas Story

"An Unfinished Christmas Story" by O. Henry opens with a gleefully self-aware narrator railing against fashionable holiday fiction before dragging the reader through a labyrinthine digression about a mysterious landlady, Mrs. Kannon, who inhabits three connected houses at once. At the centre is Harry Stickney — twenty years old, earning sixteen dollars a week, friendless in New York City, and facing Christmas Eve with fifty cents in his pocket. The story breaks off mid-sentence, leaving its melancholy and its comedy suspended in precisely equal measure.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.