6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

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.

8 min
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.
8 min
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.
9 min
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.”
9 min
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.
8 min
May 19, 2021 "A Frank Lesson" by Janet K. Baxter
– a corresponding empathy
A passing of letters and a lingering regard for their writer are remembered, and decades later treasured for their inspiration.
8 min
May 16, 2021 "Terror in the Backcountry, 1771" from BecomingAmerica250.com
— Special Edition
at the 250th anniversary of the War of the Regulation, a startling episode of colonial history unique to North Carolina helps prepare Americans now for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. This dramatic telling with a driving soundtrack extends the listening time to 15 minutes, and is well worth it.
16 min
May 12, 2021 "Mom Conquers Volcano" by Wendy A. Miller
– an eruption of inner strength
Across 40 years, a childhood experience and an opportunity with new friends are forged into appreciation and gratitude.
9 min
May 08, 2021 "No Laughing Matter" by Nikki Campo
– send it off, Babe
A daughter blogs during her mother’s journey with cancer, discovering that journal to be the ultimate tribute.
9 min
May 05, 2021 "Love in the Time of Corona" by Lorraine Martin Bennett
– an interrupted farewell
Shut out and shut in, new barriers separate a daughter longing to touch her centenarian mother.
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).