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.

Government! Hold My Hand . . .
A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Zachary Baiel

A Now Famous Tree
When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Lynn Thompson

How I Got the Facts on China
A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Wayne Peter Liebman

Misplaced Memories
When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.
- 2008
- 03:00
- David Green

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

Out of Control. Noise.
From children to adults . . .
- 2008
- 02:31
- Alexander Soleev

The Big Strike!
When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.
- 2008
- 02:57
- Sarah Bernath

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

Two Libraries
A quiet eavesdropper gets more than he bargained for at the public library.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Noah Levinson

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

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

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

If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi

Pills
A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Cambra Moniz-Edwards

What Do You Need to Know?
The bread guys pay a visit to a busy Brooklyn deli.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Ilya Marritz

Traveling and Trees
How trees affect me as a photographer.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Pauline Kochanski

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

Don't Touch This
One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Pat Corbet

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

You Make My Heart Go
A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.
- 2007
- 03:00
- John Biewen

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

Mouse Trap Music
Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."
- 2007
- 03:00
- Christopher Danforth