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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
Tom Mayer: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Tom Bonderenko: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Shana Challmes: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Sara McClean: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Rufus Ellison: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Rebecca Abernathy: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Lisa Scotty: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Karen Chess: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Jeff Birch: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015	A man looking for a career change found a positon at Moveable Feast and fell in love with the people and the mission despite the crappy facilities.	buildings, career, nonprofit
Sriram Manivannan: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Story about lying to his mom about eating
Ryan T. Shields: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Story about telling a bunch of lies at a funeral for convenience
Paige Boehmcke: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Girl meets compulsive liar in college
Michael Sanow: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Story about how a student confessed to him about lying to get out of a project
Mary Cosimano: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all.
Lori Loe: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Lied to her student about being a rapper called Two Chain
Kristen Tull: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Story about lending her lucky socks to another girl
Jordan Lee: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Going on a wilderness hike and needing candy
Iris Maslow: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Lie about a strange man being in her house and stabbing her when she was 8.
Hilyna: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Rambling story about traveling in India
Hallie Herz: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Story about how her grandfather died and saying RIP or that he was a good man was a lie.
Ellen Brown: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Nope!
David Cohen: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Bad story about how his child lied about changing her contacts
Daniel Friedman: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Tells lie about Hulk Hogan dying while he was at UMBC and it spreads around the campus
Chris Kuhn: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Pretty little lies. Dirty big lies. We want them all. Took time off work saying that he was taking special education classes but instead was on tour with a band, which lasted 5 years.
Sue Fothergil: Oh, pioneers!	February 9, 2015	Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com.

Story Title	Story Date	Story Keywords
Dan Cole: Postcards from the Stoop	June 8, 2012	From Louisiana. Grandather taught him how to noodle, or catch a catfish with his hands.	Catfishing
Dan Fesperman: The Story Behind the Story	September 24, 2016
Dan Goldstein: Modern Love	February 3, 2014	A man goes on a vacation with his kids after his divorce and meets his new wife.	kids
Dan Guidebec: Keep Calm and ____!	February 23, 2018	A young man pays homage to his tough-as-nails mother — single mother, stuck with a HIV needle, quiet perserverance.	HIV, mother, nurse, resilience
Dan Kleiner: Workin’ It	May 16, 2019	story about working as a book cleaner for his local public school over the summer	curse words, erasers, public school, text books
Dan Rodricks: WYPR 10th Anniversary	May 23, 2012
Dan Smeragliuolo: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Dan Van Allen: Leap of Faith	February 8, 2024	hitchhiking on planes
Dana Gillet: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	This is the story about how bed bugs killed my marriage. In the process of treating my house for bed bugs packing up all the fabrics,books and whatnots I realized”light	bedbugs, bikini, kids, marriage, pest control, sex, travel
Dana Gillet: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Finding mouse in food	mother, mouse, restaurant, sister, stuart little
Dana Kollman: Corpus	September 24, 2007
Dana Kollman: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Dana Moore: Across the Divide	February 22, 2010
Dana Moore: Bridging the Gap	March 9, 2022	being told she wasn’t a star lawyer by a bigot	attorney, bigot, law, star
Dana Moore: Haunted	October 18, 2010	Man who makes a career in horror due to having an agoraphobic mother who lost a young child (his brother) to hemophilia.	agoraphobia, hemophilia, horror
Dana Wakefield: The Stoop Says “I do!”	June 9, 2011	A bride has a strained relationship with her mother in law because she is convinces she is a gold digger.	conflict, mother in law, tension
Daniel Friedman: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Tells lie about Hulk Hogan dying while he was at UMBC and it spreads around the campus
Daniel Friedman: School Daze I	September 11, 2014
Danista Hunte: The Giving Life	November 13, 2013
Danny Joe LaBrecque: Not Gonna Work for Me	November 9, 2023
Danny Zawodny: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show	December 11, 2018	It was a clear, warm New Year’s Eve night out in the rural farmland of northwest Nicaragua. I tried to fight off the growing discomfort and pain in my stomach,	foreign, language barrier, new year's eve, Nicaragua, outhouse, pants, poop, travel
Dante Barksdale: Fight Club	October 10, 2016
Danton Spina: On Purpose	June 20, 2019	story about getting into a car accident after college	car accident, college, road trip, west
Dario DiBattista: See Beyond	October 15, 2024
Darnell Henderson: Hitched	May 11, 2022