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Marvelous Marva -- A Gold Star Educator in Oakland


by Arabella Grayson
Sep 29, 2010

 

In big, beautiful, sweeping strokes, she drew her name in curvaceous, curlicue calligraphy across the black board with a stump of white chalk. She turned and smiled, slowly surveying the faces of the 20...

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The Flood, The Water Heater, Spiders, And The Rat


by krowdady
Sep 29, 2010

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An over-exaggerated tale of the Incas' revenge in Peru which I can tell much better in person but in the meantime here is my blog post from the time it actually happened


by Steven Syrek
Sep 26, 2010

http://smoothworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/fecal-matters.html

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The Love Sex Passion-Mobile


by Mitch Luckett
Sep 26, 2010

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Whatever Happened to Ledford Jonson?


by Gina Douglas
Sep 24, 2010

The strongest, bravest man in the Hills meets a monster out of Cherokee Mythology.

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AIDSLifecycle - 2500 cyclist, 575 miles, 7 days, SF to LA


by Tony Eason
Sep 24, 2010

 

AIDSLifeCycle

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The Transvestite and the Church Lady


by rlillard6
Sep 24, 2010

There she was justa walking down the street singing "do a diddy diddy dum diddy doo". On this particularly cold summers day in San Francisco,  I was on my way to reharsal for my comedy show " An Eveiniing of Sigh-Fi". I...

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the wedding story


by stevenberkowitz
Sep 23, 2010

Beautiful bride, supportive parents.  I had one of those.  Told live at Storytelling at the Perch in Brooklyn.  Enjoy, despite the quality of the audio.  

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The Brides Room


by Gina Douglas
Sep 22, 2010

An eight year-old boy confronts God, in the Brides Room of the synogogue.

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The Last Half Hour


by Justin Richardson
Sep 21, 2010

Hey Snap Judgement!  Well, I figured since Halloween is just around the corner I'd send you a ghost story of my own. You ever feel like sometimes things don't add up? Enjoy!

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30 seconds in Jersey City


by charlotteellen
Sep 14, 2010

A man stumbles, slightly drunk, out of the Golden Cicada and walks ahead of me down Grand Street. Across the street a cardboard tube of Pringles is dropped out of the driver’s window of a car stopped at the light. Narrowly missing...

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Fat Kid Love


by Ten Fingers
Sep 11, 2010

Dave Thomason told this story at Ten Fingers, the San Francisco storytelling even where anybody can spin a tale. He won first prize and took home $150 for his trouble. Sign up to tell YOUR story at the next Ten Fingers on Sept. 15th or...

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Listen to the first sixty seconds of "The Story" . . .


by coldkoolin
Sep 09, 2010

Listen now to the first sixty seconds of "The Story" . . .

 

Brand new episode dropping THIS WEEKEND, baby!

 

--Glynn

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Grief and Comfort in Seoul


by Erica Olivier
Sep 08, 2010

Prologue:

I made my mom an unwed teen mother. Back in the '70's, teen pregnancy wasn't exactly common in her town, but it seems there also wasn't the stigma attached that may have existed just a decade before. I doubt she found many...

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Me, Myself & We: The only sober one a very big family ...


by Jonathan Hull
Sep 08, 2010

So, 11 days before I turn 30 years old,I experience a complete "Soul Shift", (I'll speak in non concluding terms) literally within a three hour time period.  It all started when I decided to figure out who I was, so I pulled up...