As a companion piece to today’s other entry about The Moth, here’s a terrific chance to hear some Moth stories and vote on the selections for the Audience Favorites Vol. 6 CD.

The choices consist of the 51 stories featured on the Moth’s Mainstage in 2008.

You can hear some Mainstage stories here and others in The Moth’s free podcast subscription through iTunes.

Voting takes place here, but the deadline is soon — Feb. 2!

Here’s just a small sampling of Moth story topics, these from last January:

• While visiting his old stomping ground, a young student is mugged at gunpoint.
• In an attempt to cure a chronic physical ailment and a broken heart, a woman travels to the Amazonian Jungle and takes psychedelic drugs under the supervision of a shaman.
• Riding with police officers on the lower east side of Manhattan, a writer witnesses a troubling interrogation of a young white boy because of his adult, African American companion.
• A young woman must face difficult truths when she realizes her father’s fiction is often based in reality.
• A boy with an Iranian father, battles with his fourth grade classmates during The Iran Hostage Crisis.