Category: Stories

Performing: Thu July 25 at the RISK! Show

I’m a last-minute add to the RISK! Show’s roster next week. The show’s theme is “Somewhere in America.” Details: Thursday, July 25th at 9:30pm. Location is Peoples Improv Theatre, 123 East 24th Street, New York, NY on the Main Stage.

This is kind of a big deal for me because RISK is the podcast that started me on the road to pursuing live storytelling in the first place. I’m very honored and excited to be included in a show that has so much personal meaning for me. RISK is always full of surprises, so don’t miss this show!

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News Flash! “The Bomb” is now an Ask Me: SINGLE!

I’m on another podcast. Hooray! Here’s another version of my story The Bomb, but with a very flattering introduction from the wonderful David Crabb as a delicious base layer. It’s a “single” from the Ask Me Stories podcast. I’m still high from this performance. The audience was so fucking great. In fact, I think we were all high from whatever they’re pumping into the air at Axis Theatre. Ask Me Stories is a quality show, and their podcast is also full of good stuff — so go forth and attend and listen and subscribe accordingly.

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The Bomb

Take two. I performed this story for the second time on Tuesday at Ask Me Stories. Now I understand what it means to “get energy from an audience.” I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed performing it for them.

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Barbara and Bill

Barbara dropped the needle and the room was filled with the voice of Bill Cosby doing a routine about dentists. He was funny. His audience was laughing, most of my classmates were laughing. But I wasn’t laughing. I was looking at the clock, watching the minutes slip away.

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Zombie! Boyfriend!

I become aware of a shambling figure off to my left, headed straight in my direction. I know rationally that it’s my boyfriend, but some irrational zombie-fearing part of me takes over and I can only perceive him as an attacking ghoul.

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Subject Appears Anxious (Bonus Tracks)

Conclusions: Enforced relaxation may create paradoxical effects, especially when experienced in sensually stimulating and vertiginous surroundings. This phenomenon has been demonstrated in a prior PET scan study. Cf. Increased Amygdala Activity Demonstrated in Anxious Sub-Sets of Over-Privileged Populations in Luxury-Oriented Environments (J.M. Humphries et al., 1975).

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