~ A Story Parlor Signature Event ~
Come, sit, let us entertain you on a cozy evening with a good time, humor, and maybe some hope.
Join local narrative artists Tom Jeffords and Andy Collins as they present original stories and poetic musings never before seen or heard by the public.
They are honored to share the stage with a couple of other storytellers: TBA.
Some decisions are hard. This one is easy!
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Tom Jeffords started his journey toward this moment in 1990 when he was cast in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” performed in a cafetorium at Patch American High School in Stuttgart, Germany. He has definitely looked back since.
Primarily a writer of memoir and personal narrative, Tom mines his past as an Army brat and sometimes inadvertent world traveler working in live theater to weave together tales confirming that small beauties, precious routines, and longing for connection all happen backstage at Wicked and in young families moving from Texas to Germany, too, not just in Grover’s Corners.
Tom currently lives in Asheville, doing business as a psychotherapist under the name Liminal Space, and has recently, proudly, completed Story Parlor’s Inward & Artward Creativity Facilitation training.
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Andy Collins has been a writer since he wrote a hard-boiled detective story for a class project in the fourth grade. Since then he’s tried his hand at poetry, short fiction, essays, educational curricula and, as an office worker for the last 26 years, approximately seven million emails.
A little over a decade ago he discovered the pleasure of publicly reading his work, and, when he found Story Parlor’s Open Mic in 2024, his current medium of poetic monologue was born.
