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Julia Sweeney reveals the dark secret of her Grandma's piano and has an encounter with an apocalyptic piano tuner, then goes on to visit a dog show and coin a new holiday: "Single Day."

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

Tim's Hollywood power lunch turns into a trip down memory lane to his inglorious days when he first came to L.A., and how he was fired from the road as a Mitzi Gaynor dancer.

John Riggi's drug-addled Sedona adventure with his boyfriend, Beth & Greg, and a crazed Vietnam vet who helps John find his own personal vortex.

John Riggi's piece covers his pre-med career, modern science, and introducing his parents to his boyfriend's parents.

Beth's ode to Einstein features miracles, the "Uncertainty Principle" of modern particle physics, and her childhood shame about her family's Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia.

This deeply personal story starts with the latest L.A. condiments then travels back to Merrill's days as an art student and her attack by an intruder.

Patton Oswalt is a brilliant comedy writer and the ringleader of Comedians of Comedy on Showtime and on tour. In fact, he's probably appearing at a club in your area right now. You've probably seen him on King of Queens or Balls of Fury and heard him as the voice of Rattatouile.

A "Connect the Dots" theme show brought together this brilliant trilogy from Cindy Chupack, connecting short pieces about things you have to endure to live and love in New York, going Hollywood, and her "re-location-ship" in Boca Raton, Florida.

The Millionaire Mind launches Cindy Caponera into a head trip about her own relationship to class, self-confidence and spirituality.

Classic Un-Cab adventures with Dana's Dad, and a new house that makes Dana take a look at himself.

Tracy Poust wonders how she can hide her upcoming marriage from her gay friends, and reveals her own homo history, her finacee's and even her father's.

Cindy is in her 30's and living back home with her family. And that's just her first mistake.

A rollicking conversation between British author Brian Jacques and Jon Scieszka about the newest installment in Jacques' beloved Redwall series, Eulalia!. Redwall's heroes are peace-loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels, and their friends who exhibit human characteristics in a medieval setting. They face the dark side of the animal world, represented by rats, weasels, stoats, foxes, and their villain allies, in the day-to-day struggle of good versus evil.

Beth meets an Angel Healer at a New Age convention in Vegas and has a miraculous healing. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - but in this case, what happened to Beth might not actually have happened.

2 short anecdotes about the animal rights movement and my sexual awakening.

Merrill reads a classic piece from her book, How to Be Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me, about attending a sales convention. Then she proposes her own anti-sales program.

Dana Gould admits it's hip to be square. You'll hear about why Dana adopted, spooky ghost Jesus, and the sanctity of the Bat Cave. DANA GOULD was a writer and producer on The Simpsons and a veteran club comedian, with Comedy Central and HBO specials. His work is also available in the Un-Cabaret Stand-Up series. This piece was recorded at Un-Cabaret's spoken-word series "Say the Word", featuring great comedy writers reading their own original first-person non-fiction.

This is a miracle. The guy proposed and Judy finally got the rock. Now she's a normal person. Well, almost.

Taylor Negron has tales of growing up with his parents, the first Generation X'ers.