2nd Story

Rebecca takes a trip to the DMV to get a new driver’s license. What seems simple quickly becomes complicated and confusing, as Rebecca searches for that one person who will lend a helping hand.

Alyssa was fed up with her old ways and needed a change, so she did what any self-respecting person would do: she fled the country. Will Alyssa’s choice to study abroad in London prove to be the solution to her ...

A woman is reunited with her childhood best friend and soon discovers just how far they have diverged in their life choices.

An eight-year-old. Left alone in his home. In the middle of the night. What could go wrong?

Christmas is Ozzie Totten’s favorite holiday. The snow, the presents, the magic. But what happens when the magic doesn’t pull through for everybody in his happy little family?

This week’s 2nd Story Podcast bring you three stories, recorded in the 2nd Story Studio, featured in our recently-released 2nd Story Anthology, Briefly Knocked Unconscious By a Low-Flying Duck. This podcast contains exclusive interviews with the anthology’s editors, Megan Stielstra and ...

After college,  Stephanie and her friends are living in New York ready to take on the world. And they think they’ve got it all figured out, but it only takes one moment for the world to get turned upside down.

The prospect of death forces Dion to examine what’s important in life. Lying in a hospital bed, this young reflects on his extraordinary accomplishments, his crushing failures, and asks himself if he has any fight remaining.

College is a time of finding oneself. When undergraduate Parker discovers his clinical insomnia and lucid dreams separate him from others, he finds his own, unimaginable way to connect.

Hopes of a Colorado summer in the inner-circle of camp counselors are dashed when Martinique is stuck with a cabin full of social outcasts. How will she choose between her own divided loyalties?

Rebecca expected to see the unexpected on a trip to Venezuela with other seminary students.  What surprised her was that in the chaos of corruption, culture shock, and group dynamics, she lost herself — almost.  The gaze of a near-stranger ...

Earliana couldn’t have been more excited to hit the town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine during her first “all adult” vacation. However, after a chance encounter with the most unlikely of strangers, 30-something year old Earliana is challenged to truly ...

For the first time ever, 2nd Story presents a long form podcast, featuring an entire evening of stories as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do. These four stories surround the theme of “Staying Alive: ...

Thomasina, Margaret’s mother, is Super Bad Ass. And trailing behind her, soaking up all there this is to learn about being an independent (black) woman in a world built for able-bodied (white) men, is little Margaret. In circumstances reaching far ...

Joanna Harper was the kind of girl Andrew had only heard about in his favorite Led Zeppelin songs and to win her over, he was going to need the kind of help only his favorite Led Zeppelin songs could provide. The ...