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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | Second Stoop open mic featuring true, personal tales about things that GO ALL WRONG! | |
| Charlene Barnes: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | Second Stoop open mic featuring true, personal tales about things that GO ALL WRONG! Went to gifted and talented camp and she played truth or dare and had to french kiss | bowl haircut, camp, french kiss, gifted and talented, truth or dare |
| Andi Tucker: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | Second Stoop open mic featuring true, personal tales about things that GO ALL WRONG! story about son getting into a car accident with her car | accident, car, phone |
| Dave Hightower: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | Second Stoop open mic featuring true, personal tales about things that GO ALL WRONG! story about breaking down and using AAA strategically with friends | AAA, breakdown, eggs, ex girlfriends, road trip |
| Isla: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | Second Stoop open mic featuring true, personal tales about things that GO ALL WRONG! got food poisioning while interviewing for grad school | chinese food, food poisioning, graduate school, wheelchair |
| Katie Hineman: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. grew up in Minnesota in an old haunted house | haunted, Minnesota, old house |
| Michael Hughes: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about creating a book of spells to get rid of Trump | binding spell, election, resistance, trump, viral |
| Meba Jones: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about living in a haunted monastary in India | bed, buddism, fan, furniture movement, haunting, India, monk |
| Jen Marsh: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about catching her boyfriend cheating over her security camera | cat, Deep Creek, live in boyfriend, misperception, sex, survellience, video |
| Julie MacDonald: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about an excessive visit to a shaman | cancer, fried chicken, shaman, starvation, travel |
| Damon Walker: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about an orb appearing after an unconventional bible study | alcohol, anxiety, bible, orb, porch, unconventional, unknown, weed |
| Liz Swanson: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about getting sober 25 years ago | alcoholism, sobriety, spiritual bookstore, western fries |
| Sean MacDonald: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about not believing in ghosts until there was no choice but to believe | aunties, data, father, ghosts, nursing, old house |
| shirlé hale koslowski: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about a fatal car accident that was eerily predicted | boyfriend, car accident, death, gut instinct, portend, prediction, young love |
| Olu Butterfly: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | An evening of true, personal tales about everything from extraterrestrials to shamans to spells. story about visitng a village shaman to heal her marriage | african, fathers, forgiveness, history, shaman, tinctures, tractor, trauma, tree |
| Poet: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about overcoming childhood abuse and trauma | deacon, flu, forever home, foster, my little pony, resisilency, sexual abuse |
| Tyrese: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about trying to severe ties with his biological family in order to survive | abuse, CPS, foster, future, recovery |
| Clarissa: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds overcoming foster care to get into the military | aunt, challenge, foster, military, social worker, tests, try again, uncle |
| Deasha: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about being a young mom | baby, foster, second chance |
| Dion: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about overcoming childhood abuse and trauma | addiction, college, drug addicted, foster, NICU, premie, resisliency, reunification |
| Michael: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about flaws of foster care system | Abandonment, abuse, foster, social worker |
| Retchga: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about reconnecting with her biological family after having a child of her own | Abandonment, abuse, foster care, Haiti, teen pregnancy |
| McKayla: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | An evening of stories to raise funds for Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit that helps rebuild communities and families by providing innovative and diverse services for children, adults and families. Proceeds story about overcoming childhood abuse and trauma | cats, forever home, foster care, physical abuse, sexual abuse |
| Robin Stegman: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about how she uses quirky nontraditional methods to call people to arms on environmental issues | activism, coral reef, environment, travel |
| Max Pollack: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about being obsessed with bricks | bricks, collections, obsessions, signature |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paula: Secrets | September 26, 2013 | |||
| Paulie: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | Feeling at home with queer community in this gym. | ||
| Paulo Gregory Harris: Across the Divide | February 22, 2010 | |||
| Paulo Gregory Harris: War Stories | November 15, 2010 | |||
| Peaches Christ: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | After being raised in Catholic school to believe everything he stood for was sinful, a gay drag queen now loves himself and makes a living being that same sinner. | gay | |
| Peachy Dixon: Order up! | January 15, 2013 | Story about the time Frank Sinatra came into Sabatino’s | Baltimore restaurants, celebrity sighting | |
| Peggy Oehlmann: I Did it My Way | November 1, 2018 | My mother asked me to be her health care proxy when she was in her late 50s/early 60s. We very frank conversations about what she wanted/didn’t want- she didn’t want | daughter, divorce, gay, kids, living together, mother, sandwich generation, transplant | |
| Peggy Walton: My Public Health Moment | April 3, 2019 | went to ukraine before and after liberation | ||
| Peggy: Brush with Fame | March 21, 2024 | |||
| Pete R.: Fright Night | October 20, 2016 | |||
| Peter Bruun: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | story about finding love after his daughter’s tragic death | choices, college crush, divorce, heroin, maine, overdose | |
| Peter Bruun: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | |||
| Peter Nobel: Coming to America | April 7, 2008 | Giving up everything to escape with father from Hungarian Uprising. Walking blindly through the night and taking chances to make it to Vienna, Austria and eventually Canada. | escape, immigration, sacrifice, train travel, unknown | |
| Peter Quinn: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | story about bathrooms on tours | bathroom, candy machine, chain link fence, tours | |
| Peter Schmader: Money Changes Everything | November 10, 2008 | Recovering capitalist recounts disillusionment with wall street after almost working on an investment deal in private prison labor. | ||
| Petula Caesar: Getting It Wrong | October 25, 2018 | story about how her college roommate thought she was white | 80s, black, boyfriends, Howard, make up, roommates, Towson, white, wine | |
| Petula Ceasar: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Phil Meeder: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | |||
| Phill Branch: Witness | February 11, 2021 | |||
| Phillip Pack: Workin’ It | May 16, 2019 | story about working at Bethlehelm Steel as one of the few crew chiefs of color | african american, apprenticeship, Bethlehelm Steel, discrimiation, task, turner station, working together | |
| Phillip: The Path Less Traveled | ||||
| Phuong Nguyen | June 20, 2025 | |||
| Phyllis Stanley: Crossing Borders | July 30, 2013 | |||
| Pierce Flanigan: Redefining Industry | June 5, 2024 | |||
| Pierre Benu: Creating Art, Creating Change | November 14, 2024 | |||
Elise Gallagher at More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding
Story Date: February 13, 2025
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