6-minute Stories

Randell Jones
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6-minute Stories

True, personal stories from new voices and experienced writers resonating with the themes of the Personal Essay/Story Publishing Projects: "Bearing Up" (2018) and "Exploring" (2019).

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  1. EPISODE 1

    "Introduction" to "Foiled"

    Great expectations gone awry—by surprise, short-sightedness, and trickery That’s why we have stories to tell.

    7 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    "Auld Lang Syne" by Jamie Cheshire

    – In the cold twilight above the town, he sang it to himself. The aftermath story that emerged from the rumors and boasting was that there was a girl at the center of it.

    9 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    "Digging for Foo-Foo Dust" by Vicki Easterly

    – DIG! DIG! FLY! FLY! I ordered them to come back with a spoon. They didn’t know why, but I was the oldest.

    8 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    "The (sorta kinda) Runaway" by Jo McElroy Senecal

    – Who does this? … and as soon as my husband crept in the door, probably hoping for a scintilla of Norman Rockwell’s water colored scene-of-cooing-baby-at-the-hearth-slurping-dimpled-fist while the smell of home cooked fill-in-the-blank danced like fat motes and fairy dust, …

    8 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    "Mom Won't Like It" by Edward von Koenigseck

    – “Jane can’t ever know the truth.” The tide and wind pushed it ashore as surely as vengeance.

    9 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    "First Love" by David Lusk

    – I had a secret power—a newfound ally. I was a preadolescent boy lost in a, heretofore, unknown love spell magnified by the magical thinking of childhood.

    8 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    "Daddy's Girl" by Willow Noelle Groskreutz

    – “Isn’t your dad like a cult leader?” I was approached by a caramel coyote, slipping out of a convertible Camaro.

    8 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    "The Recliner" by Anne Anthony

    – The stare-off begins. Puss-faces, Mom called us. A game of chicken, I think. Seven years older, decibels louder, she always won.

    9 min
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    True, personal stories from new voices and experienced writers resonating with the themes of the Personal Essay/Story Publishing Projects: "Bearing Up" (2018) and "Exploring" (2019).

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    • Creator
      Randell Jones
    • Episodes
      103
    • Seasons
      5
    • Rating
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      6-minute Stories

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