Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by <a href="http://risk-show.com/storyteller/cyndi-freeman">Cyndi Freeman</a>.
🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen
SYNOPSIS: In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to school, and after 7 years, got their father back.
🎤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr.
SYNOPSIS: Larry saves a suicidal Black man’s life on the streets of SF and examines his tendency to bridge things between people of different races and classes.
keywords: Black experience in San Francisco, homeless, knife attack subway, people experiencing homelessness, public violence bystanders, racial isolation, urban survival stories
🎤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty
SYNOPSIS: Kerri falls in love with a guy who tricks her into helping him lie to the army while he resumes his other life with his wife and daughter. 
keywords: <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/army/">army</a>, <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/cheating/">cheating</a>, <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/lying-to-the-army/">lying to the army</a>, <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/relationship/">relationship</a>
🎤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis
SYNOPSIS: Daryl backs the Ku Klux Klan into a corner and demands that they tell him why they hate him, and he really listens. 
keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias
🎤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg
SYNOPSIS: Yossi is a shy guy raised in a conservative Jewish household with intimacy issues. He gets involved with the Orgasmic Meditation Scene, a somewhat iffy tribe that practices clitoral stimulation as a meditation.
keywords: clitoral stimulation, culty, Orgasmic Meditation
🎤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley
SYNOPSIS: Heather has a psychotic break and leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the divorce on a park bench. 
keywords: <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/divorce/">divorce</a>, <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/psychotic-break/">Psychotic Break</a>, <a href="https://www.risk-show.com/keywords/rauschenberg-painting/">Rauschenberg Painting</a>
🎤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence
SYNOPSIS: (Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death.
keywords: abortion, childhood abuse, church youth group, evangelical guilt, murder, shame, strangulation, U2
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