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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.

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Tags
Alonzo Lamont Jr.: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. Story of going out to LA to work on a show.
Mark Carter: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. A man working for Planned parenthood has spent months telling people how to eroticize contraception, but fails when he tries to insert his girlfriend diaphragm one night	Contraception, funny, Planned Parenthood, sex
Meghann Shutt: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. After graduating college, a girl gets a job working for the duck tours of Baltimore and ends up moving up the ladder before realizing that dressing up as a duck	Baltimore tourism, funny, mascot, post grad, rowdy kids
Jim Meyer: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. A man goes home to take care of his sick mother and gets a job working at Medeival times as a King and recalls the ups and downs of living	Kings, Medeival jobs, Part time jobs
Terry Sapp: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. Art school student needing money becomes a maid in San Francisco and tells the story of how the hilarious and challenging interactions with the people he worked for altered his	funny, maid, misunderstanding, self defeat, starving artist
Adriana Kroeller: You Want Fries With That?	March 30, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5. A young girl studies to be a hairdresser and tells the story of her first time cutting some creepo’s hair and combatting his creepy comments.	creepy "old" man, funny, hair, hairdresser, passion
Fernando Quijano III: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. A prom night goes sour when his date gets drunk and hooks up with someone else and then pukes all the way home	coming of age, drinking, funny, high school, prom
Ann Loar Brooks: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. A women’s fairytale marriage ends up as an abusive one and when she leaves she takes his microwave	abuse, cinderella, fairytales, marriage
Katherine Gorman: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. After a heartbreak in the dead of winter in Michigan, a girl goes on a trip south to make a documentary about communes and hears a voice of a radio	heartbreak, Michigan, radio DJ, roadtrips, winter
Gail Rosen: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. women runs into her son at a sex shop	funny, sex shop, sons
Esther Coffin Miller: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. A story about how her husband inability to give a good present worked to her advantage when he purposed to her with a diamond that she had said she didn’t	love
Vicki Bringman: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. Woman who went out on a date with a creepy guy in the 60s, who ended up stabbing his mother to death a few months later.
Michael Cook and Angela Shaeffer: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. Story of how they met, broke up, and remained friends.
Janet Gilbert: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. Innocent young woman who goes out on a date with a creepy older guy who was pursuing her and regretted it.
LaDawn Black: Love Hurts	February 9, 2009	Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large. A women tells the lessons she learned from the idea of the love letter	courage in love, funny and light, love letters
Laura M. Smith Velazquez: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from A woman talks about her decision to apply for the NASA astronaut program and leave home.	astronauts, dreams, home, solar system, space
Judith Krummeck: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from Twenty-five moves later, a woman finds home in Baltimore.	Baltimore, home, housing, memory, nomad
Bonnie Moore: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from A once Utah housewife talks about her decisions to reinvent her life and the joys she has found in shard living.	community, home, shared living
Betty Bland-Thomas: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from A woman talks about finding home and community in South Baltimore.	Baltimore
Alvin Eng: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from A child of undocumented Chinese immigrants recounts how he found home in Flushing, New York.	all american, Asian American, family, home, immigration, New York
Adote Akwei: Haven	November 7, 2015	Haven: Stories about finding, creating and losing a home It’s an evening of stories and art, including an after-hours tour of the new “Imagining Home” exhibit, drinks, and snacks from A Togo native talks about his journey as Human Rights League leader in Togo and settling in the US.	Africa, home, human rights, immigration, leaders, togo
Kelly Rudis: Beginnings and Endings	October 7, 2015	Stories about birth and death, creation and destruction, sparks and flame-outs. We kick off our 10th Anniversary Season with a night of extraordinary true, personal tales at the Art Deco
Karsonya Whitehead: Beginnings and Endings	October 7, 2015	Stories about birth and death, creation and destruction, sparks and flame-outs. We kick off our 10th Anniversary Season with a night of extraordinary true, personal tales at the Art Deco
Joel Green: Beginnings and Endings	October 7, 2015	Stories about birth and death, creation and destruction, sparks and flame-outs. We kick off our 10th Anniversary Season with a night of extraordinary true, personal tales at the Art Deco
Dr. Lawrence Egbert: Beginnings and Endings	October 7, 2015	Stories about birth and death, creation and destruction, sparks and flame-outs. We kick off our 10th Anniversary Season with a night of extraordinary true, personal tales at the Art Deco

Story Title	Story Date	Story Keywords
Cat Chamberlain: Invisible Labor	October 15, 2020	story about being a physician in a covid field hospital
Cat: Over It	January 10, 2024
Catharine Deitch: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Catharine Deitch: War Stories	November 15, 2010
Catharine Robertson	June 20, 2025
Catharine Robertson: All Stars	May 16, 2024
Catharine Robertson: Holidrama! Part Deux
Catharine Robertson: It’s a Mystery	October 28, 2013
Catharine Robertson: On the Road	June 15, 2006	Traveling in England with parents who were going through a divorce	car, divorce, england, parents
Catharine Robertson: Rose-Colored Glasses	August 16, 2024
Catharine Robertson: The Stoop Sex Show	February 7, 2017
Catherine Klavana: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Catherine Pugh: The Stoop Mayoral Show	April 13, 2016
Cecilia: Ch-ch-changes	March 13, 2012
Charisse Knight: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show	December 11, 2018	The Christmas of Murphy’s law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Ranging from messing up food, Christmas tree mishap, Christmas show featuring “reindeer” gone horribly wrong, to the	chow chow, Christmas, deer, dinner, dogs, drunk santa, mother in law
Charisse Nichols: Across the Divide	February 22, 2010	A women who has been in love with michael Mcdonald for her whole life gets to meet him and finds out he is white and kind of crazy looking but	funny
Charisse Nichols: Haunted	October 18, 2010
Charisse Nichols: My Theme Song	November 5, 2007
Charisse Nichols: Real Life Rom-Coms	February 7, 2022	terrible blind date
Charity: COVID Chronicles	March 25, 2022
Charlene Barnes: Catastrophe!	November 6, 2019	Went to gifted and talented camp and she played truth or dare and had to french kiss	bowl haircut, camp, french kiss, gifted and talented, truth or dare
Charlene Barnes: May the 4th Be With You	May 4, 2017	Woman who is obsessed with Bruce Hornby and the Range	Bruce Hornsby, obsession, stalking
Charlene Barnes: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Eating tongue in France	France, suitcase, tongue, veal
Charles Carter: Every Body Has a Story	February 6, 2023	A story about someone who became a professional dancer	professional dancer
Charles Cohen: Legends of the Fall	February 9, 2006	Learning to play guitar at music camp	guitar, music, Steve Miller