6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

December 29, 2021 "Trouble Came with the Moonshine" by Phyliss Grady Adcock
–getting into the spirits of it all.
Living above the pool hall was just one fire drill after another for this family’s children.
8 min
December 26, 2021 "Fishing Pumpkin Island" by Joe Brown
– rising anxiety.
Sometimes luck is the only thing to save you when it’s all you’ve planned for.
8 min
December 22, 2021 "A Recipe for a Christmas Story" by Randell Jones - reprise from Dec. 2020
- discovered treasure
A serendipitous find at a used book sale offered North Carolina writer Randell Jones the chance to imagine for the holidays how some family's lost treasure came to be.

Randell Jones is an award-winning history writer about the pioneer and Revolutionary War eras. Since 2007, he has served as an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council. He created the Personal Story Publishing Project and the companion podcast, “6-minute Stories” to encourage writers. In 2020, he launched BecomingAmerica250.com to promote history appreciation during the coming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, writing, speaking, and publishing as Daniel Boone Footsteps.
9 min
December 18, 2021 "In the Form of a Child" by Sarah H. Clarke
– choosing love to last
The child becomes the parent much too young but also just in time.
9 min
December 15, 2021 "Family Troubles" by Bill Donohue
– lessons in caring and caregiving.
Across generations, learning to care and to give care both nurture and sustain.
9 min
December 11, 2021 "In Bear Country" by Barbara Houston
– a really harried, hairy encounter.
Being prepared favors luck in most places. And in bear country? Survival.
8 min
December 08, 2021 "In Waves" by Elaine Thomas
– swells of anxiety and appreciation on the tides of time.
A childhood escape from danger resonates with lessons born of the rhythms of life and the ocean.
9 min
December 04, 2021 "Four Angry Men" by Joel Nelson
– taking liberties with la belle France.
A young American Army officer in France races to introduce himself to the local police.
8 min
December 01, 2021 "Let It Go" by Suzanne Cottrell
– the sneaky snake.
A brave—sort of—couple cooperates—sort of—in expelling an unwelcome intruder.
8 min
November 28, 2021 "Thirteen Candles in the Dark" by Arlene Mandell
—the “mother-in-law from hell”
The trouble between them was as old and deep as the love which might yet heal them.
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).