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Patapsco Mart

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I smile, even when it hurts.

Bought by PRX Remix

Bottom of the Curve

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

A story about mid-life crises and how three people climbed out of them.

Bought by PRX Remix

Syniya

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

Bought by PRX Remix

For World AIDS Day Steve Moore, Tears of a Clown, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...

A Fire in the Head

From: Ryan Sweikert

For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.

For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

The Ghosts of Fire Island

From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf

Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher

For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio

Eric Jones, Custodian

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

AIDS Survivor Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown

From: Charles McGuigan

Host Lede for Steve Moore Steve Moore had hit his stride as a comedian back in the late 1980s. He was working all over Hollywood as a warm up comic...

Bought by WFHB

A Eulogy for Preston Bus Station

From: Kieron Yates

Caption: Preston Bus Station, Credit: Bernie Blackburn

Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...

On the Day I Died, It Was Mostly the Blues

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories

I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix

A Silent Tornado, A Long Black Night

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix

Six Minutes

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Bought by PRX Remix

More Than Just Houses

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Portland, Maine’s Little Italy was one of many neighborhoods across America that was demolished as a result of Urban Renewal.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast

Hard Times - Craig Taylor

From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories

Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...

Something Left To Give

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW

Love Is Worth A Little Bit Of Pain

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...

Always Been With Me

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Amy has battled bipolar disorder all her life. She’s tried 25 different medications, but nothing has been able to stabilize her mood.

Bought by KPVL and KFAI Minneapolis

I'm Relatively Human

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Marty Hagglund had it all. He had a loving wife, a beautiful home, and a great job. Then, Marty threw it all to the wind to realize a deep-seated, ...

Bought by KUOW, KVNF, and KFAI Minneapolis