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Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saran He: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! A tough adolescnence and hairloss a woman finds that the guy she is after is not interested and ends up with a sweet guy who helps her take notes in | high school |
| Michael Williams: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! A man meets a woman in Italy and has an amazing night with her even though he knows she has a boyfriend and finds himself as a pawn in their | romance |
| Katharine Noel: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! A women talks about her 18 year old camp counselor and her 12 year old self’s romatic relationship throughout the years and how he really was her first love. | camp |
| Ellen Brown: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! After a horrible online date with lots of rape jokes a women’s text misspelling misleads his friends. | bad dates |
| Elizabeth McCain: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! A women is looking for love and sees her psychic about willing love into her life and finds the woman of her dreams. | love |
| Dan Goldstein: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | Stories about 21st-century romance and relationships. AN ALL-LADIES SHOW, WITH 7 FEMALE STORYTELLERS TALKING ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND LAUGHS! THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!!!!! A man goes on a vacation with his kids after his divorce and meets his new wife. | kids |
| Susanna Craine: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A women tells the story of a doctor at a psychiatric hospital reacting strongly to the therapy dog and eventually resigning. | dogs, fear, Psychiatric facilitiy |
| Shiah Irgang Laden: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A preschool teacher recounts the many hilarious and discusting accidents that he has experienced with his kids | poop, potty training, preschoolers |
| Renee Wilson: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A father who likes to fart accidentally shits himself in front of his two daughters. | accident, funny, poop |
| Patrick Horner: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A man spends his days working in the Prince Georges county underground Casino business and ends up having to convince a group of people that he didn't die in a motorcycle accident | |
| Natalie Neill: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | While working in Brazil and trying to cook a meal for her host parents a women cuts her finger badly and ends up passing out in her house. | abroad, fainting, gashes |
| Mike Ricigliano: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A guy gets the chance to try out for a game show and in his audition gets so caught up that he hits his partner | competitiveness, game shows, violence |
| Michele T: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | In fourth grade a girl pees her pants on the playground | childhood, Peeing yourself, playgrounds |
| Michael Gold: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | ||
| Maya Wildberger: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A new driver almost slides down her fathers driveway after a snow | driving, near accident |
| Ian Bukowski: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A guy gets drunk on his second to last day of work and falls while walking into a womens car and has to pay for the repair. | cars, drunks, first jobs |
| Doug Kington: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | ||
| 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 |
| Bob S: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A man tells a story about how the malfunction of this machine killed two people. | construction, death, serious |
| Bill Gatesman: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A man talks about breaking a “shatter proof” bottle of rug cleaner and how much he hates when his teenagers say “my bad” | adolesence, growing up, my bad |
| Beth Frederick: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A women at a conference in Malaysia pees herself after a business meeting and washes off her feet in the toilet | bathrooms, business, peeing your pants |
| Anna Grothe: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | Woman gets into three accidents in a week. | |
| Jill Blum: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Tales about Traveling Anywhere, Somewhere, and Nowhere at All Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new Going to Israel for her birthright travel | birthright, Israel, travel |
| Heather Moyer: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Tales about Traveling Anywhere, Somewhere, and Nowhere at All Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new Story about traveling for disasters | Journalism, travel, weather events |
| Catharine Robertson: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Tales about Traveling Anywhere, Somewhere, and Nowhere at All Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new Traveling in England with parents who were going through a divorce | car, divorce, england, parents |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elise Gallagher at More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding | February 13, 2025 | |||
| Elissa Weissman: Thanks, but no thanks | December 16, 2013 | |||
| Elissa: Glitter, Gefilte, Guilt and Guts | June 1, 2023 | |||
| Eliza: Holiday: Holiday Love/Hate | December 12, 2022 | |||
| Elizabeth Baker: Healthy Teen | Not wanting to focus on gender with her pregnancy or birth | |||
| Elizabeth Dahl: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | concern for the cicadas | ||
| Elizabeth Embry: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| Elizabeth Martin: Mark Me Present | June 17, 2016 | Woman discusses how she found herself at Strong City,and the relationships she developed, after she was laid off from a job at age 26 without a high school diploma or | confidence, education, first days, high school experiences, layoffs, parental support, Strong City, student, supports | |
| Elizabeth McCain: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | A women is looking for love and sees her psychic about willing love into her life and finds the woman of her dreams. | love | |
| Elizabeth McCain: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | gay in the south | ||
| Elizabeth Norman: Workin’ It | May 3, 2018 | A woman gets asked to sub at a school when she doesn’t have any qualifications or degrees | Catholic school, kindergarten, substitute teacher, worksheets | |
| Elizabeth Piper: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | story about her alcoholic mother embarassing her at a party | alcohol, conservative, fox news, Michael Moore, party | |
| Ellen Brown: 21 Club | January 13, 2016 | |||
| Ellen Brown: Fright Night | October 20, 2016 | |||
| Ellen Brown: Illin’ | May 12, 2016 | Woman on deserted beach in Costa Rica gets stung by a sting ray. | blood, Costa Rica, hostels, nature, paralysis, shingles, stingrays, travel | |
| Ellen Brown: Lies! | March 12, 2015 | Nope! | ||
| Ellen Brown: Modern Love | February 3, 2014 | After a horrible online date with lots of rape jokes a women’s text misspelling misleads his friends. | bad dates | |
| Ellen Brown: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | |||
| Ellen Brown: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Ellen Montoya: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Teacher in urban school who became “friends” with rough student | ||
| Ellen: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | story of learning about herself at the women’s music festival & feeling safe with her young daughter who wanted to live there | ||
| Ellen: Transportation | ||||
| Elliott: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | |||
| Ellis Marsalis III: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | Two stories: 1st about his 4th grade son who collected Pokemon cards and ended up getting lots of his peers’ money selling them. Then the story going into a weird | 4th grade, fathers, junk, Pokemon, son | |
| Ellis Marsalis: Mistaken Identity | July 18, 2024 | |||
Beth Frederick: Bah, Humbug!
Story Date: December 8, 2021
Getting a tree from a local school production for her family’s christmas...Read More
Beth Frederick: Family Drama
Story Date: February 10, 2020
White parents approving of her Jewish first husband and black second husband...Read More