Live Storytelling: 'The In-Flight Incident'

Story Club Pittsburgh, June 20, 2023

When “Unsorted but Significant” started at the beginning of this year, I promised to play around with some experimental stuff around some of the themes at hand — memoir, family, culture. history and a changing world. Here’s an attempt at taking that to a new milieu: live storytelling.

Tonight I performed a piece at a Story Club Pittsburgh slam hosted by City of Asylum. This month’s theme was “Moving On or Moving Out.” This is a true story about the day in August 1974 when I was 6 years old and on a jetliner bound for our new home in Singapore, and almost caused an international incident.

I hope you enjoy “The In-Flight Incident.”

Thank you to the ever-supportive Melissa Rayworth for filming this. Check out her excellent Story Club appearances from the past year:

• ”The Train I Didn’t Take”

• “Loy Krathong on Pine Creek”

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