6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

May 18, 2022 "The Gift That Keeps On Giving" by Marie Mitchell
—the family gift exchange.
A memento of special occasions becomes the gift nobody wants but everyone expects.
9 min
May 15, 2022 "The Ring" by Lynette Blair Mitchell
– the cool metal, the warmth of love.
By grace and by providence, improbable connections help heal.
9 min
May 12, 2022 "Why Do Things Have To Be So Hard" by Lubrina Burton
-time to grow up, leave home.
A native Kentuckian remembers the hard times of her Army basic training at 17. and the years before.
8 min
May 11, 2022 "The Promise of Romance" by Arlene Mandell
— connecting the dots to find forever love.
A promise is still a promise even if made by one and kept by another.
9 min
May 07, 2022 "Daisy's Rocking Chair" by Becky Scarlett
– if I’d only known.
While we are rocking along, some treasured reminders can slip away.
8 min
May 05, 2022 "On Wings of Angels" by Randell Jones (a reprise from May 24, 2020)
Seventy-seven years ago, on May 5, 1945, during the closing days of World War II in Europe, America experienced its only casualties from enemy action against the American mainland.
9 min
May 04, 2022 "Gobsmacked" by Camille M. Abbott
– completely charmed for a lifetime.
Both English souvenirs, the set-of-four and the one-of-a-kind, are keepers.
8 min
April 30, 2022 "The Box" by M.J. Norwood
– china sherds, cannonballs, and “hidey-holes.”
A love of history is developed; the curse of the collector is passed along.
8 min
April 27, 2022 "From Grief to Gratitude" by Lorraine Martin Bennett
– What now?
Heartaches move to a quieter part of the mind ever so slowly.
9 min
April 23, 2022 "Haunted by Hair" by Annie McLeod Jenkins
– and clothes, pharmaceuticals, and spidery script.
One family’s interesting peculiarities are considered through the items passed along.
8 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).