Month: November 2013

Takimo Nimura, one of the story slammers from our “Neighbors” show.
PHOTO: David Matsui

At every show, after our Main Stage storytellers, we invite the audience to take part in a Story Slam where they can share their own 5 minute story on the night’s theme. (If the story is really rolling, people can sometimes squeak past the clock.) Our audience votes for the winner with the highly calibrated (not) Human Applause-O-Meter. The winner gets a gift certificate to Tacoma’s King’s Books.

This is what the Slam at our September show, “Neighbors”, sounded like. The stories below aren’t edited. These are people speaking in the moment, moved to reveal their lives to strangers.

**SLAM WINNER**
Sandy King, Scraping By With The Neighbor

Tamiko Nimura, Meeting At The Corners

Dean Burke, Practically Joking Neighbors

Glenn Sukys, Upstairs from Big Twist

The view of the neighbor’s house.
Art by Britton Sukys

Fearing that a work hiatus was turning into unemployment, Drunken Telegraph co-founder Megan Sukys was determined to accomplish her to-do list on the very Sunday morning that the Tacoma SWAT team surrounded her neighbor’s house.