The Best of RISK! #33

Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared
on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman. Live Story: Hope
Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen 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. 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 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:
army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship Radio Story: The
Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis 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 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 Heather has a psychotic break and
leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the
divorce on a park bench.  keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break,
Rauschenberg Painting Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad
Lawrence (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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