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Stories with keyword: weed

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

Q is for Questioning

Paul is working at a boarding school in Switzerland, and one summer day, smokes pot with a new friend, Adam, out in the woods. Paul starts to feel a flushed giddiness that he equates with the beginnings of romance — … Continue reading →

Keywords closeness, coming out, connection, drugs, gay, glbtqia, high, joint, kiss, Live story, love, marijuana, porn, pot, queer, questioning, sexual orientation, sexual preference, sexuality, smoking, stoned, Switzerland, vulnerability, weed

Interview: Tracy and Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison interviews Tracy about the process of creating and performing her shocking and deeply emotional story “Transcendent” as part of the Live From Philly episode. The interview contains excerpts from Tracy’s story.

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The Long Road

Leslie was a musician carrying a history of family addiction and trauma in her life. She was asleep, with her boyfriend staying over, when a burglar with a gun broke into their home. He started talking to Leslie while taking … Continue reading →

Keywords addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, altered, boyfriend, break-in, brother, burglar, cocaine, cowboy, drive, drugs, ecstasy, escape, escape plan, family, gun, gunpoint, healing, heart condition, highway, hostage, kevin's pick, MDMA, motel, mother, music, music therapy, musician, overdose, police, pot, PTSD., Radio, recovery, robber, singer, songwriter, stealing, strategize, strategy, thief, threat, threatening, trauma, tripping, weed, X

Transcendent

Tracy is a sophomore at Bard College searching for transcendental experiences to escape from the grief she’s been carrying inside. When she takes mushrooms for the first time, the initial good trip gives way to feelings of suicidality. The next … Continue reading →

Keywords anxiety, audio hallucination, Best of RISK!, better., blood, brave, breakdown, college, delayed grieving, delusion, delusional, detachment, dog, freaking out, grief, hallucination, hospital, inpatient, joint, karaoke, kill, knife, Live, love, marijuana, mental health, mental illness, messiah, mom, mother, murder, mushrooms, outpatient, pain, Philadelphia, Philly, philosophy, police, pot, psych ward, reality, recovery, religion, stabbing, steak knife, suicide, trip, unconditional love, voices, weed

Incest Peppermints

Andrea confesses that when she was little she was in love with her brother, 3 years older than her, and knew she’d end up marrying him. Raised by a single mom, she had no examples of what dating was supposed … Continue reading →

Keywords baked, bathroom, brother, divorce, imagination, Jamaica, Leave A Present, Live story, New York, NYC, playing house, poop, pot, shit, single mom, sister, The Bachelor, toast, wedding, weed

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