”Young Strickland’s Career” by J.D. Beresford

Are our lives predetermined? A father is anxious to see into the future to find out what his son will achieve...but what is the meaning of the bizarre vision he glimpses in a crystal ball?

This is an audio presentation of the 1921 short story "Young Strickland's Career" by J.D. Beresford, from the collection Signs and Wonders.

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About the episode:

"Young Strickland's Career" by John Dafys Beresford. First published in Signs and Wonders, 1921, G.P. Putman's Sons.

Credit where credit's due:

End theme music: The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Incidental music:

Gathering Darkness by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3798-gathering-darkness
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