Here's the stories I promised to post in case you want to read them during the holidays. They're very short, and different in nature - some funny, some sad...
They're from the collection True Tales of American Life, edited by the US writer Paul Auster, and written by radio listeners who contributed their own stories to an NPR program. Auster wanted "stories that defied our expectations about the world, anecdotes that revealed the mysterious and unknowable forces at work in our lives, in our family histories, in our minds and bodies, in our souls, true stories that sounded like fiction".
Hope you want to read more of them after these four!