‘Tis the season for rascally tales from Short Stories Live

It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees, putting up inflated reindeer in the yard and decking halls, etc.

Whatever the holidays mean to you, there’s a good chance certain stories reflect and magnify your feelings about the season. In that spirit, here’s a holiday tradition you might appreciate.

Rogue’s Christmas is all about storytelling. It’s an annual event hosted by writer and photographer Jean Sherrard, who has a flair for curating meaning-filled, thought-provoking and, yes, roguish tales that make the season brighter.

This year’s readers include Mr. Sherrard, Kurt Beattie, Marianne Owen and Julie Briskman. The readings are:

• ‘Children’s Holiday Letters to Satan’ by Matt Passet
• ‘My Christmas in New York’ by Harper Lee
• ‘Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry
• ‘The Green Mountain Justice’ by Reverend Henry Reed
• ‘A Nineteen-Fifties Jewish-American Christmas Story’ by David Sipress ‘Duel in the Snow or Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid’ by Jean Shepherd

A Rogue’s Family Christmas is part of Town Hall Seattle’s Short Stories Live series. This 13th annual event took place at Town Hall Seattle on December 15. KUOW’s Sonya Harris recorded the stories.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Speakers Forum!