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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunni Khalid: 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 Mogadishu | Africa, guns, travel, war |
| Lee Boot: 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 Hitchhiking while traveling abroad, picked up by guy who evenutally wanted to sleep with Lee and his friend | europe, hitchhiking |
| Emily Flake: 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 Woman who visits the town named after her grandfather in Texas. | last names, Texas, Whiskey |
| Kristi Birch: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Woman who gives her cat prozac | animals, bad behavior, cats, prozac |
| Andrea Seabrook: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Living in Mexico City with her gay friend and boyfriend | gay friends, Mexico City, youth |
| JaHipster: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Story about woman who has a disgusting roommate | dirty, house owner, roommates |
| Matt Fisher: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Really cool artsy college roommate who smokes | Loyola College, music, roommates, smoking |
| Kat Hudson: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Finding her husband’s cock ring in his gym bag | closeted homosexual, cock ring, gymbag |
| Rupert Wondolowski: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Living with his female roommate turned girlfriend in early 80s punk Baltimore | 80s punk, counter culture, roommates, unrequited love |
| Marc Steiner: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Stories about Living Together (or Trying to) A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the famÄîand nothing is ever the same. Your Being a Baltimore resident during the 60s riots | 60s, commune, father's wish |
| Charles Cohen: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Learning to play guitar at music camp | guitar, music, Steve Miller |
| Marty Bass: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Losing his toupee on air | toupee |
| Shannon Dunn: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Story about not being able to learn how to ride a bike | bike riding |
| Laura Lippman: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Scripted story about losing her job with The Sun | failure |
| Valarie Perez-Schere: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Performance artist who stalks Martin O’Malley | Fluid Movement |
| Max Weiss: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop College student who had a contentious relationship with her professor, Jamaica Kincaid | failure |
| Gary Viken: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Stories about Failure It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Drunken lark about aquiring art in country of Georgia | art |
| Jonathan Scott Fuqua: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one | |
| Kate Lupin: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one story about Easter – traveling in Italy as a college student, getting pick pocketed, and seeing the Pope | |
| Ann Loar Brooks: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one Story about finding bongos in her mom’s closet for Christmas | |
| Gary Godbey: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one | |
| David Ettlin: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one funny story, actually. being Jewish during Christma | |
| Sara Hill: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one story about a woman who wanted to kill herself and decided not to | |
| Jon Harding: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one (funny story, audio is a little poor) about how he befriended a small poodle and together they ate a hickory cheese ball on christmas, with poor results | |
| Linda Perlstein: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsa Powell: Kitchen Confidential | ||||
| Emanuel McCray: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| Emile Joseph Weeks: Real Life Rom-Coms | February 7, 2022 | break up with first boyfriend | ||
| Emily Burke: First Times | May 14, 2013 | |||
| Emily Flake: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Woman who visits the town named after her grandfather in Texas. | last names, Texas, Whiskey | |
| Emily Gaines Demsky | January 22, 2026 | |||
| Emily Iannuzzelli: Never Have I Ever | April 11, 2022 | rescuing her friend who falls out of a party bus | ||
| Emily: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | |||
| Emily: Failing Up | March 6, 2024 | |||
| Emily: Secrets | September 26, 2013 | |||
| Emma Gross: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Emma Muir: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Abusive relationship | ||
| Eric Anderson: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | An HIV diagnosis journey includes fear, hope, and friendship | connection, Diagnosis, emotions | |
| Eric Beatty: Parenthood | February 4, 2013 | |||
| Eric Gregory: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Man talks about a women he never should have married, but did to avoid getting killed by her dad | divorce, regret, shotgun wedding | |
| Eric Hatch | February 21, 2026 | |||
| Eric Leikus: Mistakes were made | March 31, 2014 | |||
| Eric Leikus: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Story about living in Upper Fells Point. Neighbor dies and his family leaves all of his belongings on the street. One of the items is a board which was a | collage, Fells Point, lamination, mosaic, porn, pre-internet | |
| Eric Morrison: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | Story about accidently doing drugs at a party and hallucinating | 80s, drugs, TV | |
| Eric Morrison: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | story about composing a musicial score for space vessel | ||
| Eric Schaefer: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | a young man looks for love and faith and finds it with a neopagan spirit | christianity, cult, lost, love, pagan | |
| Eric: Neighbors | Eric | |||
| Erica Chung: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | “Professional dater” tells story of going to New York to meet more men, meeting her future husband, and bringing a white man to meet her parents in Taiwan where he | dating, food, immigrants, love, myspace, personal ads | |
| Erica Rimlinger: Just Married! | September 17, 2017 | |||
| Erica Rimlinger: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about kidnapping lawn flamingos when growin up in Stoneleight | 80s, flamingos, PLO, pranks, sombreo, Stoneleigh, suburbs | |
Betsy Hague: Bah, Humbug!
Story Date: December 8, 2021
Reframing her husband’s past family trauma now that he had alzheimer’s...Read More