82) Living Off the Land
by Nannette Drake Oldenbourg / Falmouth, MA / USA

Description: Labor Day homage to women
Website: http://www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org
Inspired by: mug

81) Gone Mousin'
by Rebecca Sheir / Anchorage, AK / USA

Description: In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish"; it's "Go Mouse"...
Website: www.akradio.org
Inspired by: mousetraps

80) The Assassin's Bell
by Charles Maynes, with Allakhverdov, Uporova and Kislitsina / Moscow / Russia

Description: A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA...will he live to tell the tale?
Website: www.podstantsiya.ru
Inspired by: bicycle bell

79) An Orchestra of Bicycles
by Rene Gutel / Tempe, AZ / USA

Description: Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.
Website: http://sonicjourneys.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

78) Learning to Ride
by Janna Graham / Bass River, Nova Scotia / Canada

Description: A love affair with a motorcycle and an education without training wheels.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

77) Elizabeth's Mug
by Dirk van der Duim / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.
Inspired by: mug

76) The Angel and the Mourning Cloak
by Jim Barfuss / Trenton, MI / USA

Description: Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

75) Ayla
by WJ Carlton / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

74) Little Voices, Far Far Away
by Jennifer Brandel and Anne Glickman / Chicago, IL / USA
            voices by Jennifer Brandel, Nick Gage and Joe Hulbet

Description: Context is a bitch - just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.
Website: www.jennyanything.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

73) Feisty Mama
by Melissa Canciller / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently.
Inspired by: mug

72) How to Cheat On Your Wife
by Elizabeth Bloom Albert / Highland Park, IL / USA

Description: A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.
Inspired by: mug

71) Buddhist Mice
by Karen Michel / Pleasant Valley, NY / USA

Description: Buddhist teachings and mouse death
Inspired by: mousetraps

70) The Trap
by David Maxon / Brooklyn, NY / USA

Description: Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
Website: www.myspace.com/davidmaxonaudio
Inspired by: mousetraps
*Chosen as a 2007 TCF ShortDoc

69) Hot Lips
by Yuko Kodama / Seattle, WA / USA

Description: Hot Lips was my role model.
Inspired by: mug

68) Well Behaved Women
by Juanona Brewster / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Janet gives new meaning to a birthday gifts.
Inspired by: mug

67) Instant Coffee
by Dennis Conrow / Kansas City, MO / USA

Description: A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.
Inspired by: mug

66) Me and Mousetraps
by David Daskal / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: I overcome my fears and manage to rid our home of a mouse.
Inspired by: mousetraps

65) Mugs with Messages
by Suzy Kahn / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: The thoughts of a creative woman of valor, who might never make history.
Inspired by: mug

64) Frenchie Movie
by Tim Forrest with Jeff Peters / Lake View Terrace, CA / USA

Description: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631)
Inspired by: bicycle bell

63) Hickory Dickory Mouse
by Karen Michel / Pleasant Valley, NY / USA

Description: A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.
Inspired by: mousetraps

62) Bike Bell Bandito
by Darlene Dennard / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories
of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved….and mom hated!
Inspired by: bicycle bell

61) Daisy Chaining
by Joe Giovannetti / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
Inspired by: mousetraps

60) The Mousetrap Enthusiasts
by Jamie Dell'Apa / New Orleans, LA / USA

Description: My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers...
Website: www.wwoz.org
Inspired by: mousetraps

59) Bicycle Belles
by Stephanie Rowden / Ann Arbor, MI / USA

Description: On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

58) Actionwomen
by Anna Norberg and Simon Norberg / London and Haninge / UK and Sweden

Description: Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980's at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
Website: www.anwire.net and www.myspace.com/simonnorberg
Inspired by: mug

57) Thrown
by Roxana Hadad with Shiow-Jiau Yung / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
Website: www.roxanahadad.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

56) My Life as a Cup
by Sean Hurley / Thornton, NH / USA

Description: The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
Website: www.radioghost.com
Inspired by: mug
*Chosen as a 2007 TCF ShortDoc

55) Stood There Ringing
by Megan Stielstra and Shiow-Jiau Yung, with music by Scotty Karate / Chicago, IL / USA


Description: A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.
Website: www.meganstielstra.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

54) Lapsed Trappist
by Stuart Ewings and Philip Briant / Forest Lodge, NSW / Australia

Description: 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.
Inspired by: mousetraps

53) Of Mice and Music
by David Swatling / Amsterdam / Netherlands

Description: Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.
Inspired by: mousetraps

52) Mug Stories
by Audrey Berns / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A coffee mug holds a special place in the heart of its owner.
Inspired by: mug

51) My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe
by Mia Lobel / Oakland, CA / USA

Description: This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.
Website: http://mialobel.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

50) Tea for Matilda
by Catherine Stifter / North San Juan, CA / USA

Description: Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
Inspired by: mug

49) Invasion
by Robert McGinley Myers / St. Paul, MN / USA

Description: One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her 2-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
Inspired by: mousetraps

48) I've Got a Question For You
by Zak Rosen / Detroit, MI / USA

Description: Making cold calls, in search of warmth.
Website: www.wdet.org/detroittoday
Inspired by: bicycle bell, mousetraps

47) Well Behaved Women
by Alexander Soleev / Nizhny Novgorod / Russia

This Dollar Storey is in Russian!
But don't let that stop you from listening. Here's the translation, so you can follow along.

Description: All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
Inspired by: all three items

46) An American Tail
by Anastasia Ivanova / Nizhny Novgorod / Russia

Description: Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA - do you still believe in these oppositions?
Inspired by: mousetraps

45) How to be Heard
by Nina Perry / London / UK

Description: Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
Website: www.ninaperry.co.uk
Inspired by: bicycle bell
*Chosen as a 2007 TCF ShortDoc

44) Curve of the Earth
by Stephanie Rowden, with Keith Taylor / Ann Arbor, MI / USA

Description: A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

43) The Mousetrap
by Donovan Keith and Tamara Keith / Davis, CA / USA

Description: This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
Website: www.tamarakeith.com / http://actorslog.blogspot.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

42) Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)
by Lisa Tharpe / New York, NY / USA

Description: Florence is a city filled with bells; church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells...
Website: www.plastictourist.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

41) The Wishing Bell
by Max Barry / Evanston, IL / USA

Description: A brother and sister fight over the gifts they receive from their father.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

40) Stupid, Stupid Cup
by Sue Mell / San Francisco, CA / USA

Description: Fictional account of bad behavior inspired by the mug.
Website: www.suemell.com
Inspired by: mug

39) Really Nice
by Laura Vitale / New York, NY / USA

Description: Intrigue after the lease is up.
Inspired by: all three

38) Stiff Peaks
by Jeffrey Letterly / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle bell in a western mountain town.
Inspired by: bicycle bell
*Chosen as a 2007 TCF ShortDoc

37) The Silent Work of Ordinary People
by Keith Brand and Nathan Long / Philadelphia, PA / USA

Description: An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker.
Inspired by: all three

36) The Horrible Truth About Indie Ice Cream
by Gabe Bullard / St. Louis, MO / USA

Description: An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

35) I'm Not Bossy
by Gabe Bullard / St. Louis, MO / USA

Description: Three mothers read slogans found on women's t-shirts in a local mall.
Inspired by: mug

34) Bells
by Frank Karall and (the band) Culled / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.
Website: www.culledmusic.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

33) Viva La Fiesta!
by Diane Bock / Santa Barbara, CA / USA

Description: It's time to celebrate Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara.
Website: http://www.prx.org/user/dsb
Inspired by: bicycle bell

32) Ring It Loud
by Emily Williams / London / UK
Description: A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who twenty years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.
Website: www.whistledown.net
Inspired by: bicycle bell

31) Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits
by Hillary Frank / Philadelphia, PA / USA

Description: If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
Website: www.hillaryfrank.com
Inspired by: bicycle bell

30) Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
by Kay Collins / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
Inspired by: mug

29) What Do You Want?
by Julia Grant / Toronto, ONT / Canada

Description: It's hard to think of anything that will last forever.
Inspired by: bicycle bell

28) I Was a Preteen Nightmare
by Jill Summers / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
Website: www.straydogrecordingco.com
Inspired by: mug

27) Gifts
by Firestone Mulvaney / Highland Park, IL / USA

Description: Two life-long bachelors kvetch over the phone.
Website: http://firevaney.podbean.com
Inspired by: all three items

26) I'm Alive!!!
by Brian Corbet / Oak Park, IL / USA

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

25) Don't Touch This
by Pat Corbet / Wheaton, IL / USA

Description: One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.
Inspired by: mug

24) A Tail of Two Mice - or - Dry Sponge Cake
by Catie Talarski and her 8 and 12 year old siblings / Hartford, CT / USA

Description: The love between two mice turns sour with a lack of cheese whip, and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.
Website: http://www.prx.org/user/talarski/
Inspired by: mousetraps

23) You Make My Heart Go
by John Biewen / Durham, NC / USA

Description: A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connection just in time.
Website: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Inspired by: bicycle bell

22) In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation
by Rick Moody and Laura Vitale / Brooklyn, NY and Providence, RI / USA

Description: In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.
Website: www.myspace.com/fairuseinc
Inspired by: mug

21) Life Plays On
by Byron Flitsch / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: 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.
Website: www.byronflitsch.com
Inspired by: mug

20) Mouse Trap Music
by Christopher Danforth / St. Paul, MN / USA

Description: Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."
Website: http://skycrusher.com/danforth and http://www.markapplebaum.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

19) American Dream
by Chris Angelos / Gurnee, IL / USA

Description: The mice have invaded and are having some RandR...so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.
Website: www.writerswebcast.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

18) House Trap
by Robert Hoare and Steven Sauve / Berlin, Germany and Hamilton, Ontario / Canada

Description: "The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry" - Robert Burns, To a Mouse
[The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto}
Website: http://robhoare.de and http://www.karmafarm.ca
Inspired by: mousetraps

17) Sidney
by Kay Collins / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh, yeah, mice.
Inspired by: mousetraps

16) Can't Catch Us All
by Conor Lennon / London / UK

Description: What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
Website: http://audiodrama.blogspot.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

15) Miss Cholita Pageant
by Ruxandra Guidi / La Paz / Bolivia

Description: The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids. Needless to say, they called for a new pageant two days later, and a new winner was chosen -- but the scandal brought up all sorts of female identity questions in the community.
Website: www.ruxandraguidi.com
Inspired by: mug

14) A Time to Tip
by David Hain / Streamwood, IL / USA

Description: The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Written from the perspective of the mug in first person, present tense.)
Inspired by: mug

13) The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store
by Kevin Theis / Oak Park, IL / USA

Description: A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
Website: www.speakinglegally.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

12) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mousetrap
by Ezekiel Weaver / Oak Park, IL / USA

Description: Both a brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.
Inspired by: mousetraps

11) Latin Mass
by Chris Angelos / Gurnee, IL / USA

Description: Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.
Website: www.writerswebcast.com
Inspired by: mug

10) Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
by Sue Mell / San Francisco, CA / USA

Description: Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
Website: www.suemell.com
Inspired by: mousetraps

9) I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
by Saya April Hillman / Chicago, IL / USA

Description: You think you're being mature and courageous, traits which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
Website: www.macncheeseproductions.com
Inspired by: mug