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:

October 21, 2020 "Into the Woods" by Marshall McClung
In the spirit of Daniel Boone, master woodsman, forester, historian, and author Marshall McClung recounts his 50-year career and life-long love affair with the wilds of Graham County, North Carolina. His special skills at tracking helped him find and rescue hundreds of lost persons over the decades as he also uncovered history consumed by the sylvan mountain wilderness.
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October 18, 2020 "Capturing Our Divided Attention" by Randell Jones
This bonus episode shares some surprising Revolutionary War history from North Carolina on an anniversary seldom acknowledged much less celebrated in America. This story is history, not politics, although it is prompted by current events this October 2020.
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8min
October 14, 2020 "Saying Goodbye" by Howard Pearre
This North Carolina writer remembers touchingly the intricate and the delicate, the lovely and the lovable in the passing of a parent.
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8min
October 07, 2020 "Spouse in the House" by R. Lee Riley
Southern hospitality and Southern hostility—an inconvenient marriage.
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9min
September 30, 2020 "Two Good Swings" by Landis Wade (reprise)
Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer, award-winning author and host of Charlotte Readers Podcast, where local and regional authors give voice to their written words. His third book—The Christmas Redemption—won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. His essays, Shelby and Two Good Swings, appeared in the Bearing Up and Exploring anthologies published in earlier anthologies of the Personal Story Publishing Project.
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September 23, 2020 "Not Finished Yet" by Suzanne Cottrell
Learning to understand Southern for a non-native speaker can be a long, painstaking and open-ended process.
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8min
September 16, 2020 "Flying South" by Patricia Joslin
just right, just in time--This Midwesterner traded in the unpredictable cold of Minnesota for the warmth she and her husband found in North Carolina, a warmth of Southern hospitality and deep caring friends.
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9min
September 09, 2020 "The Cause of the Trouble" by Randell Jones
Strong Southern women and foolish men --A North Carolina writer recounts a few stories he heard from his mother-in-law about growing up in North Georgia. .
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7min
September 02, 2020 "Southern Blues" by Janet K. Baxter
Southern hospitality can be hard to get and cold comfort to those who don’t meet other’s expectations, this relocated Midwesterner learned in her family’s first encounter. .
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August 26, 2020 "The Enduring Feast" by Jane Rockwell
pie and coffee--Memories of favorite foods and family recipes and the efforts to recreate Mother’s famous Chocolate Cake without one draw the family closer together.
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