A madcap family tale from comic writer James Thurber tells about “The Night the Ghost Got In,” read by SHORTS’ late host Isaiah Sheffer. A lonely woman experiences a series of bizarre domestic mishaps, which bring love to her door. Joanna Gleason reads Alice Hoffman’s “Examining the Evidence.” Another lonely woman has an angel land in her backyard in Allan Gurganus’ “It Had Wings.” The reader is Marian Seldes. And singer Audra McDonald is a strong-willed woman who won’t take a “Secondhand Man,” in a story by Rita Dove.
