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Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

Listeners of the audio are transported into a digitally charged environment where sound effects, music and song, voiceovers, and animated vocalizations of animals, by this author, are mixed and mastered by The Vision Recordings to produce a satisfying auditory experience. In a postmodern world where aspects of our culture are internet-driven, it is critical that cultural ambassadors find innovative ways to keep oral storytelling alive, and challenge the dominant discourse of social media in the 21st century.

At the height of WW2, 22-year-old Nina Raff learns that her beloved pilot husband has been killed in plane crash. To escape her grief, she upends her life, moves across country, and plunges into another marriage far too soon. For the next 20 years, she buries her sadness and ignores the past to appease her jealous alcoholic second husband. But when her teenage daughter discovers a long-hidden wedding photo, an unforgettable story of love, heartbreaking loss, oppression, and family secrets tumbles out, compounded by a mystery the daughter is determined to solve.