Don't Be Dramatic: Stories about downplaying it

In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers look back on moments that might have deserved a little more drama than they got at the time.

Part 1: When Jess Nurse feels a throbbing pain in her gut, she chalks it up to heartbreak.

Part 2: When Maryam Zaringhalam’s physician mother goes in for brain surgery, everyone insists there’s nothing to worry about.

Jess Nurse is a Boston born, NYU graduate and Los Angeles transplant. Her writing career began at the tender age of eight when she wrote a play about a horse...