This one won a Moth Story Slam, which earned me a spot in the Grand Slam — performed in front of roughly 700 people at a theater in Los Angeles. Probably the proudest I've been of anything I've written.
It's a significant improvement on an earlier DC telling. The LA version is tighter, less self-indulgent, and opens with a nerd joke that builds enough audience trust to carry them through some later moments when I'm pretty hard to root for.
The story is about a girl, a bad decision, and the specific kind of regret that only comes from knowing you're making a mistake in real time — and doing it anyway.
A story about friendship, loyalty, and whether the bro code holds up when it actually costs you something.
The one that started it all. A nerdy story from a nerd who had not yet learned to sand down the edges. Age-gated on YouTube so it lives over there — click the thumbnail to watch.
First told completely off the cuff at a work training event — no prep, no outline, just an audience that needed something to stay awake for. It went well enough that I polished it and took it to a Moth Story Slam in Los Angeles.
It's about a dog walk that went sideways in a way I still can't fully explain to my neighbors.