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Dan and Jan Stuckey are helping their son in his recovery by starting the ARCHway instistute.
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 01:24
Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Tikkun (Heb...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 01:56
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A sister reminds her accusing brother who held the household together when the mother was abusive and alcoholic in their growing-up years. The sco...
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.
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- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
A woman questions her 15 year old daughter about going out with an older man and being busted. "The grass was Chuck's."
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.
- Added: Jun 14, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two men talk of a couple whose bizarre lifestyle has nevertheless supported a love and commitment stronger than what the men have experienced in th...
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A young bride-to-be in an interracial marriage tries to get reassurance from a hesitant sister who doesn't want to "take sides."
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A married man tells a woman with whom he's having an affair of the time in his childhood: when he felt unconditional love.
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- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
Sister and brother clean up the aftermath of a bloody parental fight, wondering if this is just what moms and dads do. As adults they wonder if it...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man and a woman communicate through the medium of a board game, briefly wondering, "Is there more to life than this?"
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A child wonders why his grandfather has been made to live alone in a converted chicken house. Dad: It's not a chicken house!
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- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
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On the verge of love-making, a couple quarrel about taking out the garbage. The only solution: divorce.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A cleaning lady tells her baffled employer that she has disowned her own son for going against the tenets of their church.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young working-class couple proclaim their firm commitment to their marriage, and, in the next breath, separate.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother explains that they had to move because they're out of work. The child understands only that his friend's house is nicer.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A suburban couple plan to go out for the evening, but every option is fraught with danger -- they stay home behind locked doors.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
