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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Deborah Weiner and Barry Gogel: 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 | |
| Brandy Tomhave: 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 | |
| Audience Storytellers: 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 | |
| Abe Burickson: 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 | |
| William Koyota: Coming Out Stories | September 24, 2015 | It’s an evening of stories about what happens when you reveal your true self. Come to tell or listen! | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Charlie Weiner, MD: It’s Even MORE Complicated | April 16, 2016 | |||
| Charlie Wilhelm: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Story about how a wiseguy became a FBI informant | Baltimore, crooks, FBI, murder, reporter, straight, wise guy | |
| Charly Carter: No Limits | March 6, 2019 | Story about being fired by a democratic senator for being black | 1980s, campaigns, democrats, New York, politics, racism, rent controlled apartment, sexism, white man | |
| Chas Eby: Breaking with Tradition | December 12, 2017 | Story about faking his death to scare his cousins at a christmas party | catholic, Christmas dinner, cousin, prank, spooky, vomit | |
| Chase Sampson: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about meeting the love of her life in the military, who is married. She moved on to marry and have children of her own, but still has hopes to | affair, cheating, children, drugs, infidelity, military, mom | |
| Chaz: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Has been on testosterone for a year, in “second puberty”; played softball when he was younger; was involved with Boy Scouts of America | Boy Scouts, hormones, North Carolina | |
| Chazaq Llinas: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A hitchhiker gets a ride with a man who drops him off and immedietly gets hit by a car. | car crash, hitchiking, responsibility | |
| Chazaq Llinas: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A hitchhiker gets a ride with a man who drops him off and immedietly gets hit by a car. | car crash, hitchiking, responsibility | |
| Cheri: Mark Me Present | June 17, 2016 | Woman discusses a generalized experience of someone she has worked with as a Strong City Baltimore volunteer in returning to education as an adult. | adult education, education basics, illiteracy, late life education, perspective, Strong City, volunteer | |
| Cherie Barco | January 22, 2026 | |||
| Cheryl Casciani: 21 Club | January 13, 2016 | Start at 47 seconds, story about getting her first job as a female engineer in the oil industry in the 1980s. Drove her car there with her mom cross country | 1980s, coming of age, female engineer, holiday inns, Los Angeles, oil industry, small town | |
| Cheryl Connors: A World Inside a City, III | April 4, 2013 | |||
| Cheryl Vichness: It’s a Mystery | October 28, 2013 | |||
| Cheryl Vickniss: The Stoop Seven Deadly Sins Show | February 6, 2012 | A women backpacking in Europe climbs a mountain with some guys she met and almost falls down the side of the mountain. | mountain climbing | |
| Chief Donna: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | |||
| Chief Norris: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | |||
| Chijioke Madugwulike : The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Chijioke Madugwulike : The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Chijoke Madugwulike: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about losing his father due to negligance on the part of the physicians in his native country of Nigeria. What’s worse, these physicians were his former teachers. | fathers and sons, malpractice, medicine, Nigeria | |
Amy Sampson: Cool. Cruel. High School
Story Date: June 5, 2010
avoid the noid story about her mother...Read More
Andi Tucker: Catastrophe!
Story Date: November 6, 2019
story about son getting into a car accident with her car...Read More