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:

June 23, 2021 "Breathless Moments" by Suzanne Cottrell
– a whale of a good time.
Observing sea lions and puffins and breaching whales on Sitka Sound, all they could hear were gasps.
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June 19, 2021 "Doing Well While Doing Good" by Joel R. Stegall
– if only.
The name on a successful medical aid ubiquitous in hospitals around the world could have had a different name on it, if only.
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June 16, 2021 "Sometimes the Prize Goes to the Wrong Person" by Patricia E. Watts
– a chance in life
Abandoned to his own support as a child, he cleaned up, giving others better than he got.
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June 12, 2021 "To Encourage or Deny" by D. Blaise Kielar
– hitting the right note
A musical opportunity denied his father was multiplied many times over though his son’s passion for encouraging others.
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June 09, 2021 "Gotcha Day" by Jane Satchell McAllister
– adopting a new perspective
Traveling halfway around the world to help fulfill a friend’s new beginning.
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June 05, 2021 "My Neighbor Is a D-Day Hero" with Horace Barrett (reprise - 2021)
This story is offered for the 77th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. It is the experience that day of my next-door neighbor as he wrote it years later. He is now 97, and he learned this year he had been awarded a fourth Purple Heart to accompany his Bronze Star. This story is offered in honor and memory of all World War II veterans. Thank you, veterans, all.

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June 02, 2021 "Normandy 2019" by Harold Threatt
– lest we forget
The 75th anniversary of D-Day found the graves of the Bedford Boys buried at Colleville Sur Mer, France, honored by persons brought together by thoughtfulness and willing curiosity.
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May 29, 2021 "The Thread of Possibility" by Valerie Paterson
– a no-quit quilt of recovery and redemption
Carefully, creatively stitching together a tribute, this art quilt artistry transforms the artist and redeems the spirit of survivors into spirited thrivers.
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May 26, 2021 "It Started with a Typo" by Arlene Mandell
– the accidental grammarian
A “shirt” with no “r” was all the opportunity this New York refugee required to help dotting her “I’s” and crossing her “t’s” transform her into a “Bahama Mama.”
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May 23, 2021 “Grand Standin’” by Sharon Stegall
– name-dropping our betters
A chance encounter with a notable is dangled with wily pretense over the head of a trusting friend—or perhaps afterward formerly such.
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