6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

November 06, 2019 "The Truth at 13" by Randell Jones
An avuncular former Sunday School teacher recalls with a sly chuckle sharing with his young adolescent students and their parents a most important--and mostly true--lesson he learned at his own age 13.
7 min
October 30, 2019 "The Plummet" by Susan Wilson
facing an age-old fear -
“A wrinkle in time” may have a new meaning to this writer who is considering the prospects and perplexities of appearance and aging, tongue-in-cheek, of course, Well, maybe.
8 min
October 27, 2019 "Darts-O-Death" by David Scruggs
the point of Halloween - An old master of interaction creates a new trick that treats his gaggle of ghosts and goblins to a nearly lost Halloween spirit from his childhood, unmasking their pretenses and revealing to them something about themselves less scary than they might think it.
9 min
October 23, 2019 "Apprehension and Transcendence" by Valerie Paterson
As her teen son leaves on his gap year experience before college ("A Walk in the Park" by Kyle Paterson, June 26 podcast), writer Valerie Paterson shares her view of leaving her son abroad at the edge of the world for an outdoor encounter and reveals her own transformative experience of visiting Patagonia, Chile,
7 min
October 20, 2019 "Adieu Encore" by Sallie Showalter
Do the repeat offenses of a mysterious, rapscallion grandfather, explain the pattern of interrupted careers of one who settled at long last into writing?
8 min
October 16, 2019 "Last Dance" by Elizabeth Solazzo
Writer Elizabeth Solazzo of North Carolina, reflects on life experiences which become precious because we discover later they are our last. .
8 min
October 09, 2019 "Searching for Paradise" by Alice Osborn
A singer-songwriter/poet reveals the inspiration of Tamsen Donner behind the musician's new song about the 1846 tragedy of the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevadas.
8 min
October 06, 2019 "A Place I Can Still Find" by Chris Helvey
A writer discovers that he does remember how to find the road back to a childhood place, the home of his grandparents. Memories replenished overshadow the changes across 40 years.
8 min
October 02, 2019 "From Dreams to Realities" by William H. McCann, Jr.
Bill McCann, Jr. is an editor, publisher, teacher, playwright, and poet. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild; with Jeanine Grant Lister, he is co-leader of the Grant County Writers Group, Williamstown, Kentucky. He is the editor of Kentucky Theatre Yearbook, 2018 and of I Come From: A Voices Inside Anthology. He lives in northwest Harrison County, near Corinth, Kentucky.
9 min
September 25, 2019 "You Can Do This" by Cherie Cox
Teacher, poet, her brother's love rewarded
A distant cousin, whom the writer almost missed getting to meet, offered bold guidance from the heart and from a 100-years of life tapped out on an ancient Underwood.
7 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).