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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

Little Big Man (aka When Kobe Bryant Was 17)

Luke was a large, fat kid, but the summer he was 17, he grew from 5’10 to 6’4, and his height made him a hot commodity on his basketball team. He started believing that he had what it took to … Continue reading →

Keywords basket, basketball, childhood, court, drafted, dunk, fat, growing pains, height, insult, Kobe Bryant, league, Live story, rimshot, rivalry, score, shooting, slam dunk, summer, tall, team, varsity scout

Familiar Pattern

Starlee gets a job in LA for a month, and has to rent a car. The first day she picks up the car, she’s talking to her sister on the phone, and gets distracted by her sister’s tale of this … Continue reading →

Keywords accident, compliments, damages, earrings., flirting, gas pump, gas station, LA, Live story, Los Angeles, mansion, millionaire, money, nozzle, relationship, rental car, service desk, sister, writer

I Thought You Were My Friend

Keith is 22, and is the artistic director of a professional theatre company in Wilmington, DE. He loves being accessible to his audiences, and after a performance of one of the plays, a minister of a local church (“Scruffy,” Keith … Continue reading →

Keywords actor, affectionate, Celebrity storyteller, church, congregation, dating, DE, Delaware, director, flirting, friendship, gay, God, heterosexual, hugger, Live story, metrosexual, minister, misinterpretation, mistake., mixed messages, physical affection, producer, Scruffy, sexually frustrated, tease, theatre, theatre company, Wilmington

Stronger in the Broken Places

Amy’s been married to her husband for two decades. They’re a great match, laughing together and creating mischief despite the fact that he lives with a slew of debilitating health problems, including chronic back pain. One day in 2016 she … Continue reading →

Keywords addict, addiction, chronic pain, coroner, death, disability, firemen, health, humor, husband, joking, laughter, Live story, love, medical examiner, medication, MIssouri, MO, morphine, Olive Garden, opioids, overdose, poisoning, police, post mortem, quality of life, St. Louis, toxic

For The Love of Free Parking

Emerson is obsessed with finding free parking spots, to the point that if he sees a great parking spot, he’ll park in it, even if he doesn’t need to park or be in that neighborhood. One summer day in Atlanta, … Continue reading →

Keywords anxiety, Atlanta, ATM, awkward, car, cop, disbelief, driving, free, gun, hostage, kidnapped, Live story, lying, mugger, paranoid, parking, parking space, robbed, robbery, theft, thief, threatened, wallet

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

A Dreamer Schemer Spendthrift

Shauna has hemorrhoid issues, which she knows could be helped by a hot tub, but she and her husband are reluctant to let themselves spend money on something so expensive and luxurious. So Shauna hits up Craig’s List, and finds … Continue reading →

Keywords ass, bargains, BoJack Horseman, bottom, cheated, Craig’s List, Dan, deals, delivery, fire, frugal, hemorrhoids, hot tub, jacuzzi, LA, Live story, Los Angeles, no refund, sitz bath, thrifty, unsafe, unscrupulous

Missing

Sumer lives with her husband and three kids in an old house in Iowa. During the hot summers, the kids often sleep in their parents’ room because it has the only air conditioner. One night, Sumer and her husband wake … Continue reading →

Keywords baby, bed, Best of RISK!, blanket, canine unit, children, community, disappearance, gratitude., heat, Iowa, kids, Live story, mattress, missing, missing child, neighborhood, neighbors, panic, police, Richmond, search search party, sleep, summer, terror, VA, Virginia

Butterfly

Susanne is the mother of two kids, Tori and Liam, when she and her husband decide to have a third. After four miscarriages that keep Susanne pregnant for a year with no resulting baby, she finally sustains a pregnancy all … Continue reading →

Keywords babies, baby, baby loss, butterflies, butterfly, delivery, failed, grief, heartbeat, IN, Indiana, Indianapolis, infant loss, Live story, miscarriage, mother, mourning, pregnancy, stillbirth, ultrasound

Contraction

Tyson and his newlywed wife Colleen are young, devout Christians – virgins until marriage – and discover on their wedding night that their attempt at intercourse causes Colleen terrible pain — so much that they can’t complete the act. For … Continue reading →

Keywords cheating, Christian, divorce, dysfunction, faith, Google, inexperienced, intimacy, Live story, marriage, Milwaukee, pain, painful intercourse, penetration, pregnancy, religious, sex, sexual dysfunction, vaginismus, virgins, WI, Wisconsin

There Will Be Blood

25-year old Adrien is finding her new home of NYC to be really lonely. She falls for a guy named Jose who she’s met at a party, but when he realizes he’s 15 years older than her, he insists that … Continue reading →

Keywords accident, Best of RISK!, bleeding, blood, copper, dating, ER, fainting, frustration, hospital, intercourse, IUD, Jose, laceration, Live story, New York, NYC, passed out, penis, platonic, relationship, sex, sex injury, Williamsburg, writers

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

Hookers and Blow

Marc is standing outside his building at 2am, when a prostitute approaches and asks if he wants sex. Marc says yes, and takes her up to the apartment he shares with his girlfriend, who’s out of town. He’s never hired … Continue reading →

Keywords blow, blow job, breasts, Celebrity storytellers, cheating, cocaine, coke, comedy, condoms, guilt, hooker, infidelity, Live story, lump, oral sex, panic, paying for sex, pimp, prostitute, sex for pay, shame

In Labor

A year after he graduates high school, Aaron goes to live on a kibbutz in Israel, largely because he’s pretty sure it’s going to be an intellectual, socialist utopia, and the kibbutz girls will be horny for Americans. He immediately … Continue reading →

Keywords American., birth, birth canal, bull, calf, cows, CPR, dairy, Dudu, horny, insemination, inseminator, Israel, kibbutz, Live story, manual labor, pregnant, semen, socialist, syringe, utopia, vagina, Yankee

Untitled

Kumail tells his Risk! Live in LA co-host Pete about the time in his life when he lived with three roommates in Chicago, in a 3-story house with an attic, and his roommate Katie kept insisting that she heard “someone … Continue reading →

Keywords attic, banter, Best of RISK!, ceiling, Celebrity storyteller, colander, footsteps, hobo, improvisation, Indian storyteller, LA, Live story, Pakistani storyteller, Pakistani-American, POCI storyteller, Risk! Show hosts, roommates, spaghetti strainer, two person conversation, walking

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

Urinetown

Dave moved to NYC from Cleveland, and is constantly regaled with stories of how edgy and dangerous the city used to be, filled with bodily fluids and debauchery; he’s acutely aware of how adorable and sedate his life is in … Continue reading →

Keywords danger, edgy, Gatorade, gyros, homeless, Live story, NYC, pee, piss, soaked, subway, subway platform, train, urine, vagrant, wild

Mother May I?

When Joy was little, her mom told the whole family that she’d talked to the Lord, face to face,  and he’d reassured her she was about as perfect as a person could be, and because of that, the whole family … Continue reading →

Keywords bankruptcy, blessed, credit card, debt, deceit, devout, faith, God, Jesus, lies, Live story, marriage, money, Mormon, one woman play, scam., Solo show, trust, wedding

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

You Say Penis, I Say Pienus

Sara hits puberty at age 11, and starts feeling many new feelings that she directs into a unique outlet: inspired by some romance novels she discovered at the library, she writes a 50-page porn screenplay, meant to be cast with … Continue reading →

Keywords adolescence, adverbs, age 11, Best of RISK!, bobbies, bobs, Christie Brinkley, climax, French, hump, Kirk Cameron, library, Live story, mispronunciation, misspelling, naivete, orgasm, Paula Abdul, pee, pienus, porn, puberty, romance novels, Rosewood Beach, screenplay, sex, Tom Cruise, urination, vaginia, writing

Personal Best

Kevin decides to combat his nagging insecurity that he’s the weakest member of his comedy troupe, The State, by getting away for a while, and taking a cross-country “hippie bus trip” from NYC to San Francisco. Amidst much joviality and … Continue reading →

Keywords beards, Boy Scouts, bus drivers, bus trip, campground, Colorado, Colorado River, crabs, cross country, current, drowning, drugs, fear, Gay storyteller, German, GLBTQIA storyteller, Green Tortoise, hippies, Host story, Kevin Allison, Live story, mud, naked, near death, New York, NYC, queer, raft, San Francisco, show host, showers, swim, swimming, The State

The Deuce

Miles finally goes on a date with a coworker he’s had a crush on for quite a while — Dana. He gets wasted the night before, and is thus hung over for their date in Central Park; then, as he … Continue reading →

Keywords accident, Best of RISK!, cat, Central Park, date, diarrhea, embarrassed, feces, Live story, New York, NYC, odor, poop, shit, smell, stain, subway

A Little Help From My Friends

When his comedy troupe The State breaks up, Kevin has to start a solo career, and creates a weird, elaborate, performance-art style comedic character monologue that centers around possibly being (or not being) Charles Manson. He tries it out at … Continue reading →

Keywords agent, audience, blank, body surfing, career., character, Charles Manson, comedy, comedy club, failure, fear, gig, Host story, Kevin Allison, Live story, Luna Lounge, memorization, monologue, New York, NYC, onstage, script, scripted, show host, solo, stage fright, standup, The State, think about it Jackass, vulnerability

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

Mistress O

Ophira is hired to write an article for a big, glossy magazine – Marie Claire — and has to come up with a pitch. She decides she’ll train to be a Dominatrix and then try to get a gig. She … Continue reading →

Keywords bald, BDSM, bondage, bug zapper, cheery, club, costume, dom, dominatrix, hanging, journalism, journalist, kink, Live story, magazine, Marie Claire, mistress, munch, New York, NYC, Paddles, pain, rope, S and M, safe word, service, sex, sex stunt, slave, spanking, stocks, story pitch, sub/dom, submissive, switch, technique, writer

Barefoot in the Park

Brand new to NYC at 18 after growing up in conservative, closeted Cincinnati, Kevin tests out a gay bar on the Upper West Side. He feels out of place, but does end up getting very very drunk, and remembers that … Continue reading →

Keywords anonymous, bushes, Central Park, drunk, fiasco, Gay storyteller, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, hookup, Kevin Allison, Live story, New York, NYC, NYU, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PBR, projectile, puke, queer, sex, shoes, show host, shrubbery, socks, subway, train, Upper West Side, vomit

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