2nd Story

A young woman struggles with the blurry line between educator and parent during her first year of teaching. Whitney meets Jorge, a shy Puerto Rican student from Chicago’s west side who desperately wants to go to college, but nearly gives ...

Have you ever destroyed a miracle? A miraculous item belonging to your Dad, who has an anger management problem? A humerous and thoughtful look at a family’s dynamics and history.

On a romantic, late-night, drunken impulse, Andy and his friends drive 300 miles to the rainy streets of Philadelphia, so that he can convince a woman he’s never kissed that they should be lovers instead of friends. What he doesn’t ...

It often happens that when you think things can’t get worse, somehow, they do. How a small, air-filled donut added levity, and then some, to the saddest Christmas ever.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, we’d like to share a story about one teaching artist’s attempt to teach the Civil Rights Movement to a classroom of 4th graders.

You can go home again. . . but do you want to? An adult moves back home and regresses back to her teenage self.

Recorded live at our New Year’s Eve party on December 31, 2008, this podcast is unlike any other we’ve shared before: 2nd Story company member Megan Stielstra leads a call-and-response with a 12-piece band that spins a 2008 year-in-review into ...

A writer and a photographer cross paths on the far side of the world, only to discover that running away from home was the easy part. A love story in pictures and words.

In the summer of 1998, Matt worked as a trainer in the “Wild Wings Bird Show!“ at Sea World Cleveland.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, here’s a story that examines the questions of “How do you personally define ‘marriage’ and how has that definition changed as you grow older?” For a open gay single man that’s a challenge, ...

After the birth of her first child, Sarah’s hormones push her to the brink. . . and back to the altar.

Church camp isn’t all about campfires, skits, and sing-a-longs in this tale of two brothers shipped off to Lake Wappapello, Missouri, where one boy learns a lot more than memorized Bible verses.

A Beatles compilation—created for the audience—becomes a vehicle for Molly to catalog her tumultuous, ever-changing, roller-coaster relationship with her father.

A drunk and lonely college night calls for an internet hookup. All goes unexpectedly well, until. . .

After a long, cold winter filled with dreams of growing her own food, spring arrives with an unexpected, and unsanitary, conflict between neighbors.