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 |
|---|---|---|---|
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
August 22, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Naked: Stories about baring bodies, souls, and secrets” on August 22nd, 7pm, at the Checkerspot Brewing Co. With musical guest Danah Denice! Storytellers: Christina Sledge Alberta | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | Amanda Doran | |
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | Aseloka Smith | |
July 18, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “Smalltimore: Stories about a city so small, even your secrets have neighbors!” With musical guest Caleb Stine! Friday, July 18th, 7pm Patterson Park – Cedar House | ||
June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | ||
June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | ||
June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | ||
June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | ||
June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | ||
| Kelli Wilson Bigelow | June 26, 2025 | In celebration of its 100th anniversary of service, United Way of Central Maryland collaborated with the Stoop to spotlight real, personal experiences about the impact United Way. | |
| Cindy | June 20, 2025 | The Stoop, in partnership with the Maryland SPCA, presents “Unleashed: No muzzles, no collars, just real stories about animal companions!” Friday, June 20th 6 p SPCA adoption event 7 p | |
| Stephanie | June 20, 2025 | The Stoop, in partnership with the Maryland SPCA, presents “Unleashed: No muzzles, no collars, just real stories about animal companions!” Friday, June 20th 6 p SPCA adoption event 7 p | |
| Stacy Gilbert | June 20, 2025 | The Stoop, in partnership with the Maryland SPCA, presents “Unleashed: No muzzles, no collars, just real stories about animal companions!” Friday, June 20th 6 p SPCA adoption event 7 p | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron B: Silk Road | June 10, 2016 | Man deals with two flat tires, in a foriegn country, before the prevalence of cell phones. | bad luck, flat tire, travel | |
| Aaron Brall: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | A man how loves the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers | old people | |
| Aaron Curtis: Night Life | ||||
| Aaron Heinsman: Bah, Humbug! | December 8, 2021 | Trump making Christmas terrible | ||
| Aaron Heinsman: Real Life Rom-Coms | February 7, 2022 | getting dumped on vacation | ||
| Aaron Henkin: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | story about his band Destroyer 666 | mix-ups, punk rock, rock and roll, white power | |
| Aaron Henkin: Money Changes Everything | November 10, 2008 | |||
| Aaron Henkin: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Ab Logan: First Times | ||||
| Ab Logan: It’s a Mystery | October 28, 2013 | |||
| Ab Logan: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Abby Cox: The Giving Life | November 13, 2013 | |||
| Abby Scharbach: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | A curly girl’s hair goes straight after pregnancy. | ||
| Abe Burickson: Beginnings and Endings | October 7, 2015 | |||
| Abe Wasserberger: Wit and Wisdom | April 6, 2024 | |||
| Abi Suresh: Bridging the Gap | March 9, 2022 | befriending an old woman in italy | ||
| Adam Riess: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | Story about how Barbara Mikulski advocated for Riess’ Space program and her subsequent attendance at his office Halloween party as dark matter | dark matter, Halloween, Hubble, Mikulski, Nobel prize, telescope | ||
| Adam Ruben: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Adam Stone: Just Married! | September 17, 2017 | Adam Stone, a freelance writer from Annapolis, spoke of a strained relationship with his father-in-law, who questioned the need for his blonde, Protestant daughter to marry Stone in a Jewish | ||
| Adell Cothorne: Workin’ It | May 3, 2018 | A principal who finally got her dream school catches two staff members cheating on the standardized assessment. She becuase a whistleblower and was then blackballed | black, blackballed, cheating, college, cupcakes, DC public schools, education, generational poverty, secretary, standardized tests, whistleblower | |
| Adote Akwei: Haven | November 7, 2015 | 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 | |
| Adriana Kroeller: You Want Fries With That? | March 30, 2009 | 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 | |
| Adrienne Clermont: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | A young woman sets out to do good work in Benin — but quickly learns that connecting with the local culture is almost impossible. | co-worker, culture shock, curse, failure, faux pas, international, office, volunteer, voodoo | |
| Aida Medinas: Intercambio | March 9, 2018 | coming to US from Columbia, living for 9 years in a white suburb of DC, and then moving to Baltimore where she works with people from all over Latin and | chuch, civil rights, Columbia, DC, diversity, hispanic, mission, purpose, social norms across culture, suburbs, white | |
| Aisha Alfadhalah: A Movement in Every Direction | November 3, 2022 | |||
