6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

August 18, 2021 "Hallelujah" by Judie Holcomb-Pack
– a musical miracle.
Talent, faithful practice, and good intentions will get you only so far.
8 min
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.
8 min
August 11, 2021 "Is Opportunity a Four-letter Word?" by Joe Brown
– work is its own reward.
When you learn something new every day, you can hardly wait until tomorrow.
8 min
August 08, 2021 "An Awesome Carolina 'Green' Sky" by R.V. Kuser
– sensational.
From somewhere on the spectrum is the best place to see the world—to sense it like no one else.
7 min
August 04, 2021 "Do I Need That?" by Annie McLeod Jenkins
– a frugal eye.
Forgoing the impulse to convert wanting into having has its beauty—and its scratches.
8 min
July 31, 2021 "Beautiful Flowers and Dandelion Johnny" by Vicki Easterly
– disability can enable.
Not everything is at it first appears, and even more so is that true of people.
8 min
July 28, 2021 "On Grandma's Knee" by Doug Cantrell
– best seat on the porch.
A history professor remembers his best teacher from when he was knee-high to nothin’.
8 min
July 24, 2021 "Hole in Hedge Leads to The Netherlands" by Beth Bixby Davis
– treasured memories revealed,
A transatlantic friendship maintained across decades spawns publishing inspirations.
8 min
July 21, 2021 "Life's Trajectory" by Bill Donohue
– maybe.
Life offers the right way, the wrong way, and the military way for doing things; not all outcomes are predictable.
8 min
July 14, 2021 "The Orphan Train" by Patricia E. Watts
– longing for family.
Separated as children, a relentless desire to find one another spawned a frustrating search.
8 min

About 6-minute Stories

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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).