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Stories with keyword: nyc

Barefoot In The Park Revisited

Keywords anonymous, gay, glbtqia, homosexual, hookup, Kevin Allison, Live, NYC, Podfest, queer, sex, show host

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

Night of the Black Chrysanthemum

Keywords Brooklyn, family, grudge, Latina, Latino, New York, NYC, Puerto Rican storyteller, relatives, vendetta

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

Jimmy Davis Eyes

Ophira was living in NYC, and had just gotten a bikini wax and wanted to get her money’s worth. She meets a guy at a bar, and although there are signs that he’s a horrible person, goes home with him … Continue reading →

Keywords bad sex, bar, bikini wax, cats, collection, dating, Garfield, hookup, Jim Davis, large penis, New York, NYC, obsession, one night stand, plush toys, Queens, Radio story, stuffed animals

Breaking Through

Keywords Fire Island, gay, glbtqia, homosexual, Kevin Allison, New York, NYC, queer, show host

The Gift

Keywords Brooklyn, Latina, Latino, New York, NYC, Puerto Rican storyteller

Stop Signs

Julie takes driver’s ed at age 28, signing up for lessons on Staten Island, with a middle-aged male instructor named Ron, who talks a lot, eventually about rather inappropriate and sexual topics. On Julie’s next-to-last lesson, Ron makes her drive … Continue reading →

Keywords creepy, driver’s ed, driving lessons, inappropriate, instructor, menace, New York, NYC, Radio story, sexual harassment, sexual predator, Staten Island, threatening, threatening behavior.

For the Love of Nubbins

Hired to sell very expensive, real-looking (and feeling) baby dolls for the holiday season at downtown NYC’s FAO Schwartz, Elna is stunned to observe how seriously the wealthy shoppers take these doll “adoptions,” and how their status and privilege comes … Continue reading →

Keywords adoption, African American, Asian, attachment, baby, black, bond, certificate, Christmas, color, doll, ethnic, ethnicity, FAO Schwartz, floppy, gifts, holiday, infant, Latinx, Live, Nubbins, nursery, NYC, POC, presents, realistic, shopping, skin color, staff pick, tone, weighted, white

A Hard Landing

British 20-something JP gets a job that transfers him from London to New York. One of the only friends he makes is a young lady named Claire, whom he meets online and begins dating. She becomes mysteriously ill with terrible … Continue reading →

Keywords attention-seeking, believable, break-in, British, cancer, Claire, convincing, diagnosis, doctors, doubt, Emma, ex-pat, fabrication, fight, GI distress, girlfriend, heavy metal, hoax, hospital, illness, instability, lead, lies, made-up, medical, mental illness, Munchausen Syndrome, mysterious, mystery, NYC, poison, psychiatric, Radio story, sick, stomach, stomach aches, toxic, vomiting

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

Michael Pope Is Gay For Pay

Michael is 28 years old, living in NYC, and penniless after having invested everything he had in making his first indie film. After desperately searching the job ads, he gets an interview with a gay phone sex line, which is … Continue reading →

Keywords audition, broke, filmmaker, gay, hotline, improvise, interview, job ads, NYC, penniless, phone call, phone sex, Radio story, straight, supervisor

Nude Descending a Staircase

When Morgan moved to NYC, she fell in with a crowd of friends who did a fair amount of partying, and immersed herself in alcohol and coke. One night, just as she’s recovering from a broken leg, Morgan’s friends introduce … Continue reading →

Keywords apartment, apartment building, broken leg, cocaine, doctor, doors, drunk, hallways, identical, knocking, locked out, missing, naked, Nigerian, nude, NYC, partying, pee, peeing, police, Radio story, search, sleepwalking, stairwell, urine

What Kind of Friend

It’s 2010, and Hank is living in NYC post grad school, and is in deep credit card debt. He becomes friends with a fellow actor, Walter, who’s so broke he’s living in his van. Hank invites Walter to be his … Continue reading →

Keywords abuser, acting, actor, Asian, Asian storyteller, bed, blow job, broke, Chinese-American storyteller, credit card debt, debt, drunk, explosive, fear, fight, force, friends, friendship, frightened, gay, glbtqia, grad school, hotel, insidious, Law & Order, Live, love, New York, NYC, platonic, POCI storyteller, police, queer, rape, roommate, sleep, stability, success, tour, unpredictable, wing man

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

I Am (So Gay)

Soce the rapper moved to NYC from NH in 2003, and immediately started going to open mics to try to get time onstage. He noticed right away that there didn’t seem to be any other rappers who were gay besides … Continue reading →

Keywords coming out, danger, End of The Week, Gay storyteller, GLBTQIA storyteller, keeping it real., lyrics, New Hampshire, New York, NH, NYC, open mic, Pyramid, queer, Radio story, rap, rapper, rough, song, stage time, suckin’ dick, verses, violence

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

Solitary Man

After attending the birthday party of a guy he’s crushed out on, Greg takes a walk through Tompkins Square Park, intending to enjoy some solitude, then find dinner, then go home. When he goes to leave the park at about … Continue reading →

Keywords cerebral palsy, cop, CP, disability, disabled storyteller, East Village, gates, gay, Gay storyteller, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, horny, Live, locked, New York, NYC, park, passers-by, pedestrians, police, queer

Ham and Samurai

Keywords anonymous, Asian, balls, CBT, Converse, East Village, gay, gay culture, jacking off, Japanese, kink, Live, masturbation, naked, NYC, NYU, one night stand, pick up, queer, Samurai, sex, sex acts, sex club, shoes, strip, testicles, underground

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