6-minute Stories

6-minute Stories


Latest Episodes

"The Height of Foolishness" by Mary Clements Fisher
November 02, 2024

– I became daring in the dark. My grip froze. I gulped the moist night air and licked my lips.

"Listen Up! by Kenneth Chamlee - 2
October 30, 2024

Dont panic. Keep your feet up.It bucks and dips, pitches and plunges while cold water slams you every few seconds.

"My First Adventure" by Akira Odani
October 26, 2024

Should I tell my mother what I decided to do?A 5-year-old, less than one meter tall, I slipped through the turnstile without being noticed.

"Fool's Hill" by Caroline Kane Kenna
October 23, 2024

We were trying out young adulthood, but there were rules.What I recall is moonlight through a picture window until we heard his door open, Marshalls deep, slow Tennessee twang.

"Greyhound to Ithaca" by Maureen Ryan Griffin
October 19, 2024

I had a layover in Elmira, New Yorksix hours long.Warblers, whistlers, and trillers sang. Joe and Maybe Dave knew when not to talk, too, when beauty itself was the conversation.

"Mountain Panic" by Suzanne Adams
October 16, 2024

I began to pass little crosses made of sticks and string.It was fully dark outside now, a blackness unrelieved by any shaft of human-created light.

"Outgunned" by Jamie Cheshire
October 12, 2024

We had our audience!Fierce when necessary, and sometimes maybe just a little bit witchy

"Time To Live or Die" by Edward von Koenigseck
October 09, 2024

Quick! Let's get the oars!.Traveling fast, the tankers bow tossed large white-capped waves.

"No Turning Back" by Bruce Spang
October 05, 2024

What was I doing here? Id been a fool to come.Too much of the past haunted the rooms.

"The Bottle Rocket War" by Richard L. Davis
October 02, 2024

"The Bottle Rocket War"by Richard L. Davis, Elk Grove, CA firecrackers on a stick, launched from tequila bottles!We had no Francis Scott Key to record our glory and legacy.