ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
Micro-Sonic
Mourning and a smaller memorial.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Stacy Bond
The Interloper
The story of a woman's fifth breast biopsy.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Kay Collins
Gobble Gobble
A new kind of resolution to Thanksgiving conflict.
- 2006
- 02:34
- Jane Cramer
And Plenty of Others Never Got Along
A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.
- 2006
- 02:00
- Jamie Proctor
Strictly Vegetarian, or, Something Happened During That Trip to Malacca, Malaysia
She is now pregnant!
- 2006
- 02:32
- Jaume Pique
- Manel Perez
Hearing Things
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Carolina Wheat
Naptime
What does he remember from three months ago?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Julia Barton
The Dwayne Split
The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."
- 2006
- 02:30
- Lawrence Dolton
Don't Take the Girl
Musical murder trial with a twist.
- 2006
- 02:33
- Jessica Gonzalez
Thrown
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Roxana Hadad
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Lapsed Trappist
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Philip Briant
- Stuart Ewings
The Big City
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
- 2009
- 03:31
- Sean Hurley
Beyond the Tree Line
A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Jane Cramer
The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
- 2008
- 02:58
- Will Wright
Why Question the Facts?
A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
Out of Control. Noise.
From children to adults . . .
- 2008
- 02:31
- Alexander Soleev
Leaves
The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.
- 2008
- 03:33
- Max Barry
Restful, Shady Places
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sean Hurley
A Large, Well-Rounded Head
The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Kate Daloz
- Michelle Legro
Pink George
McCarthyism and me.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
When Condos Travel
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
- 2008
- 02:48
- Sara Robberson
Ad Absurdum
A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Sarah Boothroyd
Birth, Birth, Rebirth
As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Chris Sewell
Invisible Greek Rain
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Anastasia Ivanova
Feeling Small but Dreaming Big
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
- 2008
- 02:30
- Anastasia Ivanova