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Eulogy for Frankie | Dani Bryant

July 2, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

I have known the most amazing dog that has ever lived. I understand that you might be offended by this controversial statement, because you believe you have known the most amazing dog that has ever lived, but this is not a conversation. I’m just stating a fact. The truth. Frankie The Dog (her formal name) was a ten-year-old- neurotic and strange black Labrador retriever and on one winter’s day I arrived home from work to find no Frankie – at least […]

Categories: Dani Bryant, Story Club South Side

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Be Conscientious When Using Superlatives | Scott Stealey

June 11, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

For one summer when I was sixteen years old, I worked at Great America, in a game booth called “The Amazing Alfredo.” You’d give me one dollar and I’d guess your age or weight within three years or three pounds. You’d write one of these numbers down on a slip of paper and hand it back to the Six Flags employee to your right, who is stoned. His name is Chip. Think of Chip as your arbitration counselor and this […]

Categories: Essay Fiesta, Scott Stealey

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Origin Story | Ruth McCormack

June 4, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Some superheroes are ordinary citizens, transformed by chance into defenders of peace and justice. You know, your Spider-men, your Incredible Hulks. Some are born to a life of heroism, like Superman or Harry Potter. Some undergo a terrible trauma and vow to seek revenge, like Batman or the Punisher. As a child, this sort of career didn’t seem that far out of reach. Not that I couldn’t distinguish fantasy from reality, but I had an acute sense of fairness, strong […]

Categories: Ruth McCormack, You're Being Ridiculous

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I Should Be Dead | Josh Poirier

May 28, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

I should be dead … and not in a, let’s make an ironic statement kind of way … I really should be dead … and if you think typing that statement on to paper hits home … saying it out loud is ten times more potent.

Categories: Josh Poirier, Story Club Boston

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Who’s Watching the Parents? | Jason Pittman

May 21, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

So, I have just completed 10 years as a public school teacher in Washington, D.C. Don’t clap, actually, because I just quit. It was a difficult decision. I hated leaving a lot of my students.I had a student when I was a very young teacher. Ryan, in the middle of my lessons, would conduct these very wild conversations between his thumbs — who spoke their own thumb language.

Categories: First Person Arts, Jason Pittman

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You Fail | Joe Janes

May 14, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

 I teach Improvisation at Columbia College in the Theatre Department. While it is a required course for many theatre students, it is one of the easiest classes ever. It is creative gym. You don’t even have to improvise well. If you show up, participate, and do the two writing assignments – short essays that include the favorite hyphenate of every college student, double-spaced – you will pass. The only way to fail is to not show up. The university policy […]

Categories: Joe Janes, Story Club South Side

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Oh, You Shouldn’t Have | Johanna Stein

May 7, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

“Oh, You Shouldn’t Have” comes to us from Johanna Stein’s new book  How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane, on sale now on Amazon, B&N, andIndiebound. See more at jojostein.com It’s late December and I’ve just squeezed a nine-pound girl child through my hoo-ha. She’s being cleaned in the hospital nursery while her new, freaked-out father keeps watch. I am still in the delivery room, feeling exhausted, slightly throbbing, by mostly happy that it’s over and I no […]

Categories: Johanna Stein, Story Club North Side

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Until Sunday Morning | Shannon Cason

May 7, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

The bathrooms at LaGuardia Airport remind me of the Taste of Chicago’s Port-a-Potties, but I have to drop a deuce before I head to Manhattan. Car service would be $50, a taxi $30, a shuttle $25, so I decide to walk to the M60 bus at the terminal stop because I’m in no hurry. I’ve traveled from Midway to LaGuardia via Spirit Airlines to see my daughter, Madison, who is three-years-old, and lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. The M60 […]

Categories: Shannon Cason, Story Club North Side

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Waiting for Ogatai to Die | Robert Norris

May 7, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Seven hundred and seventy-two years ago, December eleventh, at about dawn, a man on the other side of the world died after a night of heavy drinking. He was fifty-two. If he had lived to be fifty-four or fifty-five, chances are very good that no one in this room would exist.

Categories: Rob Norris, Story Club North Side

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