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Stories with keyword: college

A Walk to Remember

Wanda goes on a walk to escape her family for a bit while living in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.  She finds herself in a situation with someone else’s dysfunctional family that makes her grateful for the people she shares … Continue reading →

Keywords college, dare, first time, interracial, person of color, racism, sex, virginity

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

A Farewell To Limbs Almost!!!

When Matteson was in college, he backpacked through Europe for six weeks with his friends Kyler and Carney, and ended up in Pamplona, Spain, with the goal of achieving his dream — running with the bulls, which he’d wanted to … Continue reading →

Keywords awesome, backpacking, bulls, ceremonious, chase, college, crowd, dangerous, death, dream., Ernest, Europe, fence, gore, Hemingway, injury, life goal, Pamplona, Radio story, ritual, running, San Fermin, Spain, streets, tradition, trample

Black Girl Magic

A college girl takes on a dare to lose her virginity and the relationship becomes something beyond college sexual hijinks.  She mistakenly believes that she is in her first real relationship until a shocking phone call exposes otherwise.  She deals … Continue reading →

Keywords college, dare, interracial, person of color, racism, virginity

The French Deflection

18 year-old Margot is a freshman theatre major, and is passionately in love with a French guy named Pierre who’s in her same department, and is just stereotypically romantic in a way she can’t resist…even when she sees signs that … Continue reading →

Keywords backstage, breakup, cheating, college, drama, French, freshman, kiss, making out, melodramatic, painter, passion, Pierre, punch, Radio story, rideshare, romantic, sex, station, theatre major, train, youth

Bulletproof

Andrew grows up Jewish in the south, with an identity as a rather nerdy, dateless hypochondriac; he wants so much to be cool, and to have a girlfriend, and it’s just not happening. While he’s in high school, he visits … Continue reading →

Keywords ammo, band, blood, brother, bulletproof vest, camo, collapsed lung, college, cops, Demerol, dorm, drugs, ER, guns, high, hospital, hypochondriac, Jewish, knives, Live story, Louisiana, narcotics, Navy Seal, nerdy, New Orleans, observation, pain relief, party, roommate, scar., stab, stitches, Tulane University, weapons

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.

Keywords analysis, anxiety, audio hallucination, better., blood, brave, breakdown, college, commentary, delayed grieving, delusion, delusional, detachment, dog, freaking out, grief, hallucination, hospital, inpatient, joint, karaoke, Kevin Allison, 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, show host, stabbing, steak knife, suicide, trip, unconditional love, voices, weed

Marcia Nadel

Carlos is in film school in LA, and his assignment is to create a character study; he’s only allowed to use one actor in the film, and he feels this rule is stupid. He decides to get around it by … Continue reading →

Keywords adult toy store, adult toys, air, assignment, blow-up doll, cast, characters, college, customers, defective, dorm, dyke, film, film school, hole, Hollywood, inflatable, inflate, LA, leak, Live story, Marcia Nadel, movie, Pleasure Chest, return, sex doll, sex shop, sheep

Act Two

Christina has always had an assortment of mysterious health issues, but in college, she starts getting much sicker, with joints so achy she can barely move, and fatigue that makes her fall asleep in class and eventually have to drop … Continue reading →

Keywords antibiotics, autoimmune, body image, chronic illness, chronic pain, college, dancer, dropout, fatigue, gentlemen’s club, health, infusion, Live, Lyme, Lyme Disease, Minneapolis, nude, pain, recovery, strip club, stripping, topless

Both Sides Now

Tara grew up a working class kid in Queens, dividing her time between her divorced parents — one side Italian, one side Irish. She had tough street smarts, and, at the same time, a secret love for literature, especially Shakespeare. … Continue reading →

Keywords accent, adjective, baby, college, divorce, dyke, education, gay, girlfriend, glbtqia, grammar, intelligence, IQ, Irish, Italian, King Lear, lesbian, Lesbian storyteller, literacy, Manhattan, money, New York, New York City, pregnant, pregnant teen, Queens, queer, Radio, scrappy, self-esteem, Shakespeare, smart, stereotypes, street smart, upper-class, working class, writer

Call It a Crime

At 19, Nancy was an innocent Theatre major at a Catholic university – so innocent she’d never been drunk, and needed to know what drunkenness felt like in order to play a character she’d been cast as in a show. … Continue reading →

Keywords acting, Catholic, college, consent, date rape, denial, dorm, dorm room, drinking, drunk, frat house, fraternity house, kiss, Live, Marquette, Milwaukee, no, non-consensual, plays, PTSD., rape, rehearsal, secret, sex, sexual abuse, sexual violence, survivor, theatre, theatre major, trauma, victim, victim blaming, virginity

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

I Love You, Man

Mather was a freshman theatre major at NYU, with the whole big city around him, but he somehow still felt lonely and isolated. He fell into the habit of drinking a lot — sometimes to blackout state. One night, walking … Continue reading →

Keywords alcohol, blackout, college, crying, dorm, drinking, drunk, emotional, excess, freshman, homeless, isolation, Jack Daniels, jump cut, life story, Live story, loneliness, memory loss., New York, NYC, NYU, party, passed out, pizza, roommates, student, theatre, unconscious

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