Too Little to Live On
Suspense · December 26, 1947 · 29 min · 4,577 words
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Thus spent, used edited and directed by William Sphere. Suspense, radio's outstanding, theater of thrills presents the last of a special series of Friday night performances at this hour. Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you a most unusual broadcast.
During a famous radio couple who have never before appeared in a story of this kind, Mr. Ozzy Nelson and Miss Harriet Hilliard. You are accustomed to hearing our stars in their own comedy show, But tonight, Aussie and Harriet appear for us as a couple, who are driven to the plotting of murder, in Too Little to Live On by Robert Richards, a play well calculated to keep you in,
so spend. It doesn't matter now. How do you think anything could matter anymore to me now? He should have let me die. That was the best way. That's all it matters to me now is that I want to die.
That's all I care about. Being dead. We ever thought about it before this morning or not. It might have crossed our mind sometime, one or the other of us I don't know. But we never talked about it, never.
Never before this morning. And then this morning everything just seemed to come to a head. Every little thing that happened all those months and years just seemed to pile up at once. It just seemed as though this morning was the last straw.
Hi, honey. Hello, darling. Your breakfast is there keeping warm on the back of the stove. I got it for you, but I'm already late with his. That's right. You better hurry though. I'm not going to the office today. You're not? He wants me to stick around as lawyers coming over sometime today. His lawyer? Yeah, don't you remember? I guess I forgot. His lawyer is coming over,
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