Jess, Ryan and Damien kick off the ninth season chatting deep on pivotal moments in their lives, women in whiskey, and how to pronounce marquis. Oh, and an O. Henry story with terrible employees, arranged marriages, and something called Beautiful Hole. Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: Roads of Destiny by O. Henry.