The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Gilbert: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Steve Walker: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | cars, embarrassing moments, milkshakes |
| Jessica Hartman: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | bad boys, marching band |
| Hope Harris: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | marching band, marrying teacher, older men |
| Betsy Boyd: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | camp, Jesus, religion, southern |
| Bradford Pearson: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | grass, high school, pranks |
| BR McDonald: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | actor, drama club, high school, perm, Three Stooges |
| Amy Sampson: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | Domino's, high school, mother, Noid, sports |
| Richard Meltzer: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | 50s, high school, rebel, youth |
| Heath Harrison: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | bees, high school, soda, water boy |
| Jennifer Downs: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | Black Panthers, Bryn Mawr, high school |
| Murph McManus: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | dancing, teachers |
| Rob Schoeberlein: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | bellbottoms, prom |
| Alicia Gabriel: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | coming out, dating |
| Roy Taff: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | cars, drinking, highschool |
| Alex Hewett: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | cheerleaders, mental illness |
| Greg Koren: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | amusement park, high school sweethearts, prom |
| Bill Griffiths: Cool. Cruel. High School | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | high school, teacher, tough students |
| Dudley Clendinen: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Heather Moyer: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Ba Barocca: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Jessica N.: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Tim Young: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Ana Goldseker: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Susan Anthony: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} {post_content: 30} | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brittney Renettan: Keep Calm and ____! | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | athletics, basketball, injury | |
| Brooke Johnson: Culture Shock | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Brooke Savage: Coming Out Stories | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Brooke Thomas: Parenthood | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | children | |
| Brooks Long: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | dude with a guitar, not listening, restaurant, volume | |
| Brooks Long: Not Throwing Away My Shot | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | Baltimore, high school, math, testing | |
| Bruce Goldfarb: It’s a Mystery | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Bruce Goldfarb: The Twilight Zone | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Bruce Lebowitz | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Bunky: B-More Proud | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| C Ryan Patterson: Family Drama | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | bike, brothers, dads, hijinks, kids, pizza | |
| C.E. Snow: Family Circus | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Caitlin Barnett: Live and Learn | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Caitlin Cress: Stoop at Loyola | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Caitriona Hanley: Real Life Rom-Coms | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Candice: Never Have I Ever | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Cara Ober: Making Their Mark | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carl Harding: A Movement in Every Direction | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carl Henry Cesar: First Times | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carl Henry Cesare: My Secret Weapon | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carl Stokes: The Stoop Mayoral Show | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carl Streed: A World Inside a City, III | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carla Paisley: Balancing Act | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | ||
| Carla Paisley: Every Body Has a Story | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | birth story, black doula, motherhood | |
| Carlos Raba: Intercambio | {acf_event_details_event_date: F j, Y} | {post_content: 30} | childhood innocence, cooking, corruption, fathers, firework, food, Journalism, Mexico, murder, sanctuary, sons | |
Alfonso Fernandez: Intercambio
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His grandmother and mother taught him to see the world as an artist as a...Read More
Alice Strum: Getting It Wrong
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story about long-lost family who came to visit her father while he was dying...Read MoreAlicia Gabriel: Cool. Cruel. High School
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Funny story about finding out highschool boyfriend was gay...Read MoreAlicia Gabriel: O Little Town of Baltimore
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Alicia Wilson: Trials and Tribulations II
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...Read MoreAlison: First Times
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Story about being a counseling student for Hopkins for the Jessup Correctional Facility...Read More
Allison Brown Jackson: What I Did for Love
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At sixteen Allison meets a boy at bible study — after years of pining over...Read More