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Stories with keyword: live story

The Peach Badge of Courage

Living in LA with his girlfriend, Michael has gotten used to agreeing with plans that he’s not at all enthusiastic about, because he figures that most of the time, they’re not going to happen. So when his two close friends … Continue reading →

Keywords accelerated free fall, airplane, claustrophobia, desert, fear, hand signals, jump, jumpmaster., LA, Live story, Los Angeles, parachute, peer pressure, plane, puke, rip cord, sick, skydiving, terror, The State, vomit

Mission Impersonable

Growing up in Detroit, Cooper wants to be an actor, but is self-conscious about how much he looks like Tom Cruise – he doesn’t want that to hurt his chance at getting roles in the future. In 2000, while “Mission … Continue reading →

Keywords actor, blockbuster, cart, celebrity, cops, costume, Detroit, escape, event, freeze, golf, golf course, golfers, guns, imitation, impersonator, LA, Live story, lookalike, Los Angeles, Mission Impossible, movie, outhouse, sniper, suburb, surprise, SWAT, Tom Cruise

What We All Know To Be Tremendous

Heather’s childhood obsession with her mother’s beauty — and especially her mother’s perfect bosom — transitions gradually into an unusually strong desire for sexuality, which leads to Heather doing things like shoving stuffed animals down her pants, and observing the … Continue reading →

Keywords bathmat, boobs, bosom, breasts, childhood, dog, Georgia, grandparents, humping, jacking off, Live story, masturbation, mating, Peaches, puberty, road trip, sensuality, sex, sexuality, shame, southern, stuffed animals

A Muffin Appears

Joanne is a free spirit who’s worked as a circus aerialist and a touring theatre performer, and her new Argentinian boyfriend (and ESL student) Alejandro is somewhat the opposite – clean cut, responsible and stable. When Joanne invites him to … Continue reading →

Keywords Alejandro, Argentina, art, barter, Black Rock City, boyfriend, Burning Man, camp, desert, drugs, dust, dust storm, ecstasy, ESL, gay, Live story, muffin, mushroom, New York City, non-English speaker, NYC, party, psychedelic, queer, Radical Faeries, relationship, sculpture, teacher, tent, trampoline

The Lightswitch

After reading a short story in his college creative writing class about a man with OCD, Matt has a flash of insight and realizes that he himself showed all the signs of obsessive-compulsive behavior in his youth — counting rituals, … Continue reading →

Keywords cat, college, compulsions, control, counselor, counting, death, George, habits, high school, light switch, Live story, mental health, mental illness, New York, NYC, obsessions, OCD, People’s Improv, puberty, rituals, rumination, shower, summer camp, switchplate

The Wild One

Max grew up in the early 1980’s on the south shore of Long Island, running with a very tough street gang that he describes as “rock and roll surf dudes.” His manifesto was basically “sex, drugs, fight,” but he was … Continue reading →

Keywords 1980’s, BB gun, bravado, dealer, delinquent, dime bag, drugs, fight, gang, grown up., insecurity, LIR, Live story, Long Island, punk, rock and roll, sex, shoot, sober, surf dudes, teenager, tough, train station, trouble, weed

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