6-minute Stories

By Randell Jones

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).... more

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6-minute Stories episodes:

September 15, 2021 "Shopping for the Homeless" by Arlene Mandell
- passing on kindness.
From grandmother to daughter to granddaughter, so it goes, a deep understanding of sharing what you can
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9min
September 11, 2021 "International House" by Marie Mitchell
—welcome everyone,
A welcoming family in eastern Kentucky becomes the delightful hub of international sharing as students come and stay and go and write back and invite and . . . well, you get the idea.
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9min
September 08, 2021 "Hello, Mother and Father" by Janet K. Baxter
—world family.
Adopting Vietnamese children 36 years ago expressed and expanded love.
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8min
September 05, 2021 "Swamp Creature" + "Jimmy, Poison Ivy, and a Tattooed Moon" by Randell Jones
In the spirit of Labor Day weekend 2021, we offer this reprise of two stories by your host Randell Jones that have as much to with Luck and Opportunity as with the theme of the 2019 Personal Story Publishing Project when they first appeared. Please enjoy both stories back-to-back, if you like.
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14min
September 01, 2021 "Beach Adulting 101" by Alice Osborn
– apart from the parents.
Finding her first apartment on her own, she relied on homegrown judgment and a little luck.
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8min
August 29, 2021 "Despite All the Scary" by Lauren Summers
– New York, here I come.
“The opportunity approached me like a subway roaring up to the platform of what was my former life.”
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8min
August 25, 2021 "Gobsmacked in the Gulfstream" by Arlene Mandell - reprise
Arlene Mandell is an artist living in Linville, North Carolina. Her engaging portraits can be seen year-round at the Carlton Gallery in Banner Elk. Relocating two years ago from Miami to the Grandfather Mountain community inspired a love of writing. She is a member of the North Carolina Poetry Society and Sue Spirit's Writing Workshop in Vilas. Her essays and poems have appeared in Second Spring and Gateways literary anthologies.
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8min
August 22, 2021 "Listening to the Photograph" by Leigh Ann Whittle
– a picture is no substitute for a thousand words.
An old photograph connects across generations and lovingly shares hard-learned wisdom with those who will listen.
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9min
August 18, 2021 "Hallelujah" by Judie Holcomb-Pack
– a musical miracle.
Talent, faithful practice, and good intentions will get you only so far.
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8min
August 15, 2021 "Bury Me with My People" by Paula Teem Levi
– a congregation of confederates.
A family learns of their mother’s wartime fate through the inscription of her last request and the kindness of one who happened to see it.
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8min

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