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.

Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens

A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.

2008
02:26
Amy Denes

Telepathic Trees

Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.

2008
03:01
Amber Cortes

Of Mice and Music

Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.

2007
03:00
David Swatling

Bells

A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.

2007
03:00
Frank Karall

Life Plays On

An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye.

2007
03:10
Byron Flitsch

In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation

In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.

2007
02:53
Laura Vitale
Rick Moody

You Make My Heart Go

A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.

2007
03:00
John Biewen

A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake

The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.

2007
02:59
Catie Talarski

Don't Touch This

One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.

2007
02:47
Pat Corbet

I'm Alive

A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.

2007
01:03
Brian Corbet

Gifts

Two life-long bachelors kvetch over the phone.

2007
03:13
Firestone Mulvaney

I Was a Preteen Nightmare

A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.

What Do You Want?

It's hard to think of anything that will last forever.

2007
02:58
Julia Grant

Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story

Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.

2007
02:59
Kay Collins

Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits

If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.

2007
03:00
Hillary Frank

Ring It Loud

A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.