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.

Harvey Carne Workout Method, Cassette 6
Welcome to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
- 2008
- 02:32
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton

Lady Bait
Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
- 2008
- 02:57
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton

The Good Citizen's Control of Body and Mind
A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Aliza Simons
- Sara Vogel

Teen Mind
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Frank Karall

Are You Sure?
A look at the age old dilemma -- the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Carrie Shepherd

Stork-Bird Brain
A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Carolyn Hoerdemann

Mr. Alm's Garden
The story of a discovery of a secret garden.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Tom Horan

Telepathic Trees
Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Amber Cortes

I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams

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

Govern the Ganglia
A found poem -- all text from chosen books.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Ken Cormier

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

Pink George
McCarthyism and me.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kay Collins

Forest to Desert
2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Sarah Boothroyd

The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
- 2008
- 02:41
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody

Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
- 2008
- 02:43
- Matt Fleeger

Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger

Cicatrix
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
- 2008
- 02:51
- Joan Schuman

Two Trailer Love Stories
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Meagan Perry

Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
How to make your dreams of happiness come true.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd

Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Mikkel Nedergaard

Control of Swimsuit and Mind
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kathleen Goldhar

Summer Snow in Moscow
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
- 2008
- 03:00
- Anastasia Gorokhova
- Daniela Hannemann
- Sasha Fomichev

Labor Pains
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Rich Halten

Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins