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“How I Learned to Cook” is the story of how a young woman is confronted with her parents’ stress, loneliness and depression. By learning to take care of them, she discovers how to take care of herself.

20 shows, 78 stories and storytellers, and one fabulous season….recapped in 180 seconds of audio.

Ever wanted to be someone else? Walk in other shoes? Wear a different mask? It’s less sci-fi than you think. Alex Bonner brings us on a tale of a wanderer who doesn’t know how to settle down, even into his ...

Life in New York City turns out to be more difficult than Bobby anticipated, until he meets an unlikely friend who teaches him patience and acceptance through Jazz music.

Laura has always been good at reading not just her students’ writing, but her students themselves. When Zanib turns up in her fiction writing workshop, however, Laura has to rethink what she can and cannot see, as well as what ...

When Eric’s family moves to a wealthy neighborhood, he finds himself stuck between his middle-class family and his brand new middle school–where name-brand clothes and exotic vacations mean everything.

Fourteen year old Coya has spent her whole life trying not to emulate her activist parents, but finds this almost impossible when biology class collides with an unexpected sex scandal.

Little Jimmy is a half-Italian, half-Polish kid. When his parents divorce, he watches his family dynamic change when his mom gets remarried to an African-American man. Sometimes funny, sometimes complicated, the hard parts of growing up are easier to talk ...

Life is hard for five-year-old Lizzie Duszynski. Growing up and attending Catholic school in an Irish neighborhood, what’s a young Polish girl to do?

A biracial man who is often told that he looks like certain celebrities goes to a Brooklyn bar, where he has an encounter with a guy whose strange profession makes him really good at The “You Look Like” Game.

As a troubled high school student, it takes a string of unlikely events before JH finally gets together with one very persistent boy. Years later, she recognizes his nameless description in a short story on NPR, forcing her to explore ...

When you meet the one you love, you want to share everything with that person. But when CP’s new girlfriend Jess wants to share in their spirituality, the question looms large for them: can two people from different spiritual backgrounds ...

The story of a young man’s first total friendship—beginning, middle, and untimely end. Few can say they’ve met folks like Jimmy Gauntt, and fewer still will ever be able to do so.

Broke and uprooted, Aimee moves to a small town in northern Wisconsin to work for her family’s restaurant and take in the local color. Everything seems to be a cliche until a town meeting calls into question the identity of ...

Jess and CP are getting married! But when CP wants to invite an ex-girlfriend to the wedding, it forces the two of them to confront some deep-seated fears: the fear that their current relationship is just a reflection of past ...