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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Curtis: Night Life | |||
| Gina: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | ||
| Josh Kohn: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | ||
| Tami Jacobs: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | ||
| Surrinder Ahluwalia: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: a young Indian man courts his future wife secretly then tricks her parents into letting him marry her | |
| Amelia Miller: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: a gal sees a guy in the grocery store. connects via Craigs List. jumps for joy…. until she realizes he’s a cheater! | |
| Arianne Rice: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: a young pastor feels out of her league when she’s called to support a set of grieving parents. | |
| Maneesha Ahluwalia: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: Volunteers were married, Embryos were adopted, and It all came back full circle, just the way it was meant to be | |
| Joni Holifield: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: My story is about my early struggle through poverty. How I was able to lift myself completely from the cold, horrible grip of poverty. And how I ended up coming | |
| Evan Woodard (Wood-ard): Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: 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 | |
| Tamar Jacobs (tommy): Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: my story is about my journey as a child with a single mom. Our struggles as immigrants and making our way in Baltimore. The twists and turns that brought me | |
| Mark Gunnery : Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: One night when attending a film festival I ran into an old friend who informed me that a box of my old journals was at the Compound, a local mixed | |
| Kevin KAL Kallaugher (Kal-la-her): Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: A cartoonist returns to Ft Collins, Colorado after a 40 year absence only to find in a shocking coincidence to be staying in the exact house and exact room that | |
| Kerry Spencer Pray: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | Thank you to our season partners: I have a history of dating gay men! I thought I married a straight man, but no, he was gay. Ope, I, also was gay. SURPRISE. | |
| Julie King: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click being a doctor during the pandemic | |
| Elizabeth Dahl: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click concern for the cicadas | |
| Thomas Dotstry: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click art in the military | |
| Elizabeth McCain: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click gay in the south | |
| Josh Kuderna: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click breaking an engagement during covid | |
| Janelle Diamond: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click covid parenting | |
| Nicole Espaillit: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click moving to Alaska from Miami | |
| Todd Barkin: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click jazz club | |
| Priscilla Morales: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click losing dog | |
| Brandy Klein: Unmasked | March 10, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary Story about having to say goodbye to her father over Facetime on Christmas Day, as he died of COVID | covid, death, facetime, father, hospital, mask, phone |
| Aleks Romano: Unmasked | March 10, 2021 | The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary What happens when your professional dream is coming true before your very eyes at the beginning of a global pandemic? You lace up your (virtual) sneakers, get out there and | career, female, future, opera |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Shields: Illin’ | May 12, 2016 | Man jokes about fish bones, karma instantly responds. | bad luck, hospital, independence, karma, nature, Ocean City, splinters | |
| Ryan Shields: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Ryan Shields: Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | |||
| Ryan T. Shields: 21 Club | January 13, 2016 | A birthday curse is not broken when a man’s family dog runs out in the road and gets hit by a car in the midst of his suprise 21st birthday | birthdays, dogs, surprise party | |
| Ryan T. Shields: Fright Night | October 20, 2016 | |||
| Ryan T. Shields: Lies! | March 12, 2015 | Story about telling a bunch of lies at a funeral for convenience | ||
| Ryan T. Shields: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Trying to help a woman with a walker out of a pool, he accidently grabs her breast | breasts, crimes, embarassing, Florida, pool, sex offenders, walker | |
| Ryan T. Shields: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Sadie Fuqua: See Beyond | October 15, 2024 | |||
| Sadie: B-More Proud | June 27, 2024 | |||
| Safa: The Path Less Traveled | ||||
| Sam Carwin: Healthy Teen | What it’s like to be the black mother of white foster children in the suburbs | |||
| Sam Farmer: Fright Night | October 20, 2016 | |||
| Sam Gallant: The Stoop Seven Deadly Sins Show | February 6, 2012 | |||
| Sam Sessa: Getting It Wrong | October 25, 2018 | story about how an accident with gun powder caused him to be shunned in early high school | bikes, black powder, counter culture, eastern shore, hippies, middle school, music, nerds, social issues, unibomber | |
| Sam Sharf: A World Inside a City, III | April 4, 2013 | |||
| Samantha | ||||
| Sammy: COVID Chronicles | March 25, 2022 | |||
| Sandy Asirvatham: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | 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 | |
| Sara Autrey: Something for Everyone | March 23, 2022 | |||
| Sara Hill: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | story about a woman who wanted to kill herself and decided not to | ||
| Sara McClean: Moveable Feast | March 29, 2015 | |||
| Sarah : Too Close For Comfort | April 18, 2024 | |||
| Sarah Achenbach: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Story about a woman who loves christmas with a passion and married someone whose parents did Christmas just so wrong | annual present wrapping, Christmas, gift wrap, love, mother in law, obsessions, sleigh ride | |
| Sarah Auchenbach: Rose-Colored Glasses | August 16, 2024 | |||
Fabiola Ramirez: Live and Learn
Story Date: February 17, 2017
Illegal daughter fleeing abuse with mother...Read More
