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Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Mutert: 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 After a clumsy first time having sex, she gets pregnant in high school, but miscarries and dates the guy in college for a few years before he dumps her and | First times, funny, liberal arts college, love, misscarriage, pregnancy scare, sex, Thanksgiving |
| Charisse Nichols: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. | |
| Rahne Alexander: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. A story about hiding who she really is by covering up the music she listened to in a Morman household | transgender |
| Felicia “Snoop” Pearson: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. Story about growing up addicted to drugs, finding a way in Baltimore | family |
| Steve Haddad: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. a man recounts the story of his mothers aneurism and the post surgery journey that transformed their relationship | family |
| Jeannette Machen: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. star wars loving women accidentally throws out her little yoda figurine | yoda |
| Laura Cappelli: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. a musical-loving women finds an outlet for her love of showtunes in college, and finds her inner music when she moves to balitmore for med school | musicals |
| Jason Dove: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. A story about how video games and the video game revolution impacted a man’s life and career aspirations | video games |
| Ken Jackson: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. Man from a small town falls in love with a woman out of his league bonding over their shared music interest | small town |
| Dovile Mark: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. a story about a women’s love for excitement leads her to a career as a stuntwoman where one man’s actions trying to “save” her helps her understand the true meaning | fear |
| Sandy Asirvatham: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | Tales about the Ditties that Define Us From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives. Womam talks about the anger that her mother exhibited while she was growing up and how it impacted her life and how she views her parenting | parents |
| Dana Kollman: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. | |
| Stephen Nunns: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. While living in NYC and working for a theater company, a fat woman stole his seat on the subway so he stood in front of her and silently farted. | and rice, Atlantic Ave, beans, farts, fat, New York, subway, theater |
| Mike Paulson: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. Meandering story about playing superman with his sister and breaking his leg. | brothers, moving, New York, sisters, suck it up, supergirl, superman |
| Jenny Schnick: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. Woman who likes pain and has a wart on her face. And she enjoys pain so she really gets into it. | needles, pain, plastic surgery, rats, wart |
| Mike “The Persecutor” Paschall: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. | |
| Stacey Barich: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. | |
| Hilary Hansen: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. | |
| Phil Meeder: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. | |
| Walter Lomax: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. Wrongfully arrested for committing a murder and robbery. Got out of jail 39 years later | cast, murder, prison, robbery, wrongly convicted |
| Anna Ditkoff: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Stories about the Body Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form. Story about getting into an accident that resulted in her not being able to move for months while she recovered in her parents house as a teenager | back, car accident, high school, injury, moving back home, parents |
| Andre Miller: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Tales About Crisis, Change, and Rebirth Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to Story about training to become a wrestler to spite his abusive father | abuse, fathers and sons, knife, physical strength, wrestling |
| Hannah Feldman: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Tales About Crisis, Change, and Rebirth Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to Story about looking for back issues of the City Paper at the Enoch Pratt for the “Merlin” dept | accent, City Paper, Clipper Mill, Evening Sun, Maryland v Merlin, MN |
| Joanne Juskus: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Tales About Crisis, Change, and Rebirth Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to Story about joining the Hare Krishnas with her boyfriend | boyfriend, Hare Krishna, marriage, spirituality |
| Asa: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Tales About Crisis, Change, and Rebirth Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to Story about becoming transgendered | gay, hormones, lesbian |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Hanson: The Stoop Seven Deadly Sins Show | February 6, 2012 | Man tells the story of his slothful Saturday morning. | funny | |
| Erik Schmidt: Off the Menu | March 28, 2019 | young hippie who cooked at a camp for a summer | angel, camp, cook, crying, girfriend, mountain | |
| Erika Blount Danois: The Story Behind the Story | September 24, 2016 | |||
| Erika Parker: Vintage Holiday Show | December 9, 2015 | |||
| Erin Dougherty: Dating Stories | February 19, 2013 | A girl tells the story of her and a boy hookin up in his room when his dad knocks on the door | sex, teens, young love | |
| Erin Dougherty: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| Erin Drew: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | |||
| Erin Fostel: Illin’ | May 12, 2016 | Woman donates her poop to her husband. | C. diff, humorous, illness, love, poop, strange cure, strange diagnosis | |
| Erin Goodloe: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Story about growing up in Carolina the daughter of a hippie artist | artsy, corduroy, eccentric, hippie, hoarder, weasley family | |
| Erin Hagar: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| Erin Mandras – Mommy Blogger, Coach: The Stoop Turns Ten! | February 10, 2016 | |||
| Erin Podolny: Sink or Swim | November 3, 2017 | |||
| Erin: Neighbors | Erin | |||
| Erin: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Esther Coffin Miller: Love Hurts | February 9, 2009 | 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 | |
| Esther Weiner: Just Married! | September 17, 2017 | Esther Weiner spoke of her June 16, 1946 wedding that, due to clerical complications, was legally recorded as taking place on June 17 because of a possibly drunk official submitting | ||
| Ethel Weld: First Times | ||||
| Evan Serpick: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | |||
| Evan Woodard (Wood-ard): Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Like most people at the beginning of 2020, I had no idea what the year really had in store for me. I soon found myself searching for ways to get | ||
| Evan Woodard: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | |||
| Evan: BMI | ||||
| Eve Glazer: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | A teacher is asked to make a speech by a head teacher in sign language, little do they know what she had ended up signing. | hidden messages, sign language, teachers, teaching | |
| Evvie Gross: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Eze Jackson: Holiday Love/Hate | December 12, 2022 | |||
| Eze Jackson: Something for Everyone | March 23, 2022 | |||
Betty Bland-Thomas: Haven
Story Date: November 7, 2015
A woman talks about finding home and community in South Baltimore....Read More
