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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gail Novo: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Odd story of taking chinese wonton noodle off the the table of mistaken enemy at restaurant | |
| Ellen Montoya: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Teacher in urban school who became “friends” with rough student | |
| Ari Jacobson: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Gerstrung, friend won 1 million dollar lottery | |
| Sophia Garber: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about taking a cross-country bikride and finding a plastic hand on the road, which became the totem of good luck. Second story about misunderstanding instructions of how to get | altrusim, appendanges, biking, dirty water, hand, language barriers, medical, optimism, poop |
| Sheri Mauer: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about father-in-law’s funeral, at which each ex-wife tells | daughter-in-law, ex-wives, freaky, funerals, holocast, impressionistic dancers, jews, normal |
| Sarah Beckham: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Grew up Morman in Utah with depressed mom and several siblings. While in African at a sex worker intervention, boxes of condoms fell on son while he traveled with his | Africa, aids, beds, condoms, end of days, food storage, HIV, Moms, morman, research, sex talk, sex workers, sons, Tanzania, utah |
| Robert Selkee: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about grandfather who electrocuted both him and his father | electrocution, fathers, grandfathers, lightening rods, midwesterns, rural, sons |
| Paula: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Grandmother died of a broken heart because husband went out for greenbeans and never came back; family speaks in euphemisms (e.g. female troubles, etc.) | broken heart, euphemism, female trouble, grandparents, green beans |
| Nick the Bartender: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story of superhero grandfather who survived unbelievable curcumstances while serving in the British army during WW2 | Bartender, British, Dunkirk, family history, grandfather, grandson, POW, survival, UK. England, WWII |
| Miriam Doyle: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about menstruating for the first time and mother refused to believe her, Mom leaping in front of Tom Wolfe’s golf cart, | blinking, car crashes, daughters, fatique, JFK jr, menstration, mothers, research, Tom Wolfe |
| Maxie: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Dad is Conservative Catholic and mom is a liberal Jew, father is in the foreign service, lived in Cuba, dad made her bring home a car part that very much | airplanes, bombs, Catholics, conservative. metal car part, Cuba, Foreign Service, Israel, jews, liberal |
| Loretta Jergensen: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about mom who grew up in Dundalk and dad who worked for BGE but kids thoughts he was in the mob. Grew up on Eastern Shore. | BGE, blackmarket, dads, drawbridge, Dundalk, kids, mafia, mob |
| Justin O’Donnell: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Parents met on a native american reservation. Mom named their dog Honkey. They then moved to a city. Mom also loved Kevin Costner and stalked him at a party | Dances With Wolves, freaks, Honkey, Kevin Costner, Moms, Native Americans, sons, white people, Whitehat, wild women |
| Josh Kohn: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story of mom who dealt with empty nest syndrome by growing grass, much to her daughter’s chagrin and son’s delight | daughters, grass, marijuana, mothers, pot, weed |
| George Tankard: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Married into a strong family of freaky women, one of them invited to give a keynote address in cellular biology in Germany. She purchased a 2 lb sausage and customes | customes, Nobel prize, sausage, scientists, strong women |
| Erin Goodloe: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about growing up in Carolina the daughter of a hippie artist | artsy, corduroy, eccentric, hippie, hoarder, weasley family |
| Carol Tankard: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Just in time for Thanksgiving, our open mic Stoop show featuring audience members telling 3-minute tales about their tribes, proving the truth that Every freaky family is freaky in its Story about mother who loved Talbots and took her friend’s Talbot’s grand opening door prize winnings | clothes, daughters, fashion, Florida, Melbourne, mothers, old ladies, Talbot's |
| Deb Falkenhan: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! story about growing up celebrating christmas in hampden | christmas tree, coal, glockenspiel, hampden, marching, mayor's parade, trains |
| Bill Kirkner: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! story about how a multicultural swim team celebrated hanukah | Christmas, diversity, dradle, hanukah, race, swimming, team |
| Chris Digregorio: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! story about how his grandfather was against everyone at christmas dinner | Abandonment, chef, Christmas, fights, grandfathers, leftovers, marriage |
| Alana McFall: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! story about dog eating weed from a compost pile in Maine during Christmas | brothers, compost, dog, expensive, maine, vet, weed |
| Charisse Knight: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! The Christmas of Murphy’s law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Ranging from messing up food, Christmas tree mishap, Christmas show featuring “reindeer” gone horribly wrong, to the | chow chow, Christmas, deer, dinner, dogs, drunk santa, mother in law |
| Paula Wiley: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! The Ravens were playing the Browns on Xmas eve, and as an extravagant gift to my Cleveland-born husband, I bought tickets for us and our two very young children. Unfortunately, | cleveland browns, climbing, football, gifts, heights, Ravens, tickets |
| Elaine Pollack: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! Polish christmas, place setting for stranger, brothers, ghost hunter, dog, | brothers, dog, ghost hunter, place setting for stranger, Polish christmas |
| Shelia McMenamin: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show | December 11, 2018 | It’s a gut-busting buffet of holiday tales — featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly! Each Christmas eve we shove a tree into the back corner of the family room, string it with lights, and begin our decorating. With the White Christmas movie playing in | 9/11, christmas tree, mothers, obituary, ornaments, Sept 11th |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Middleton: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | |||
| Michelle Mutert: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | 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 | |
| Michiko | December 11, 2025 | |||
| Mick the Pirate: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Story about recreating himself as a stuntman | Hollywood, pirate, stunts | |
| Mide Akinsade: Scars | July 25, 2013 | |||
| Mide Akinsade: Thanks, but no thanks | December 16, 2013 | |||
| Mike “The Persecutor” Paschall: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | |||
| Mike Bainum: Parenthood | February 4, 2013 | Story about haviing to deliver a baby in his newly renovated kitchen | ||
| Mike Baker: Eureka! | May 20, 2013 | |||
| Mike Baker: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Mike Bender: Mistakes were made | March 31, 2014 | |||
| Mike G: Funny AF | April 12, 2023 | |||
| Mike Huckenberg: Order up! | January 15, 2013 | Working at Chevy’s at Arundel Mills. | ||
| Mike Hughes: My Nemesis | April 5, 2007 | editing porn ads for The Block | 20s, Baltimore, big black dick, male bosses, porn, the block | |
| Mike Karas: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Mike Kares: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Leaving drunk friend on the street while they went to see a movie | ||
| Mike Keras: Dating Stories | February 19, 2013 | |||
| Mike Lowry: We Are Family | November 21, 2011 | story about a man who grew up biracial with a gay father | ||
| Mike McClure: We Are Family | November 21, 2011 | |||
| Mike McGuire: Justice Talking | March 18, 2013 | |||
| Mike Molina: Getting It Wrong | October 25, 2018 | story about getting the name of an asian student wrong and how his history of being targeted for his own race made that mistake all the more powerful | asian, black, Gilman, Huck Finn, New Orleans, race, school, teacher | |
| Mike Moran: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | story about last time drinking before he sobered up | alcohol, alone, hangover, hotel, sober | |
| Mike Paulson: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Meandering story about playing superman with his sister and breaking his leg. | brothers, moving, New York, sisters, suck it up, supergirl, superman | |
| Mike Pecella: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | |||
| Mike Prout: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about being good a track in high school and secretly running to his girl friend’s house every night | boyfriend, girlfriend, high school, oversleeping, parents, rocks at window, romance, running, track | |
Don Palmer: Dating Stories
Story Date: February 19, 2013
A man tells a story about his new york romance that blossomed out of a...Read MoreDon Palmer: Hair!
Story Date: April 24, 2014
start at :30 I don’t like people touching my hair. But he ends up having...Read More
