Makeshift Stories is an indie sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast. Each month, journey with us through uncharted futures, strange realities, and rebellious technologies. Let your imagination soar and discover what tomorrow might bring.
Kenzo, a former corporate IP enforcer, is hiding from his old employers by working on a remote farm. When Janet X, who owns the farm, gets a patent-infringement threat about crops she insists are legal, Kenzo steps in to help. At first, it seems like a typical patent troll case, but Kenzo catches the accuser planting evidence and uncovers a bigger search for illegal crops. Suddenly, Kenzo faces a tough choice: use what he knows for his own gain or stand up for the community against corporate greed.
Good Bot
Jun 15, 2026
During a deadly heat wave, unwilling to abandon his aging collie or give up his independence, 80-year-old Ryker refuses to leave his subsidized apartment. He soon becomes delirious from dehydration and heat, hallucinating that he is alone on a doomed alien world with a loyal robot. But when he collapses, the old collie must save him.
There Are No Aliens
Jun 01, 2026
Aurora attends a remote conference to research fringe beliefs in aliens and UAPs for an article she is writing. She meets a provocative neuroscientist, Doctor Tracey Bukowski, whose theories link universal consciousness to unexplained phenomena. Aurora finds Bukowski’s ideas crazy, but after a few too many cocktails, lets Bukowski convince her to attend a midnight session beneath the stars. There, Aurora witnesses something unexplainable and must decide whether she was manipulated, hallucinating, or if something actually happened.
The Meatspace Hire (Part 2)
May 04, 2026
Renata’s trail leads Matteo to an automated distribution centre, where he uncovers proof that a false insurance claim is a cover for a larger fraud involving relabelled memory modules and corrupted AI hardware. Matteo finds Renata alive but ends up trapped, forced to choose between escape and stopping the lie from being buried.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
Threat Machine
Apr 21, 2026
With an early snow threatening to destroy her first good crop in years, Harper’s combine breaks down. When the dealer can’t fix it in a timely manner, she is forced to take matters into her own hands and get her neighbour to repair a broken belt. But when a software update detects the unauthorized repair, the machine turns on her, locks the cab, and drives toward a cliff. Harper barely escapes the crash, only to learn the manufacturer is out to make an example of her.
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CREDITS
Written by Vern Hume (AKA Alan V Hare).
Read by Kathleen Connelly.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
The Meatspace Hire (Part 1)
Apr 01, 2026
Matteo works as a consultant for wealthy collectors, authenticating their purchases to ensure they are not AI-manufactured fakes, until his sister Renata vanishes after sending him a cryptic message concerning a fake insurance claim. After the authorities refuse to investigate, he is forced into the city’s slums to find her, where she has been working as a meat runner for an insurance AI. Matteo quickly uncovers a fraud built on tiny, deliberate distortions.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
A Solution, Not a Cure
Mar 19, 2026
While on holiday, Lena shows Erin an old photo of a woman who looks exactly like her. Initially, Erin dismisses the resemblance. However, when Lena reveals she is dying of cancer, Erin admits that it is her and that there are other historical images of her. She confesses that as a result of a strange encounter, she has lived for centuries. Desperate to save Lena, Erin tries to pass the gift on. But what transfers is not immortality alone. Lena is healed, and Erin finally understands the horror she has passed on.
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CREDITS
Written by Vern Hume (AKA Alan V Hare).
Read by Kathleen Connelly.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
The Happiness Variant
Mar 02, 2026
Hana Grabowski, a genetic engineer with a failing gene-mod business, takes a secretive contract to restore humanity’s appetite for impulsive behaviour. When her staff threatens to revolt, she uses a variant to alter their attitude. However, the mosquitoes she uses to infect them escape, unleashing a fast-spreading contagion that rewires human reward centers. The world slips into a pandemic of happiness, and no one cares except Hana.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
The Vedika Ray File
Feb 02, 2026
Nora, a scientist’s daughter, enlists true-crime host Alan Humphrey to solve the disappearance of her mother’s “deathbot.” At first, Humphrey is reluctant to take the job, but he can not resist the mystery. The clues soon take Humphrey from New Yellowknife to Uranium City, a defunct mining town. Once there, he uncovers a secret research project, whispered rumours about a deterrent, and something living beneath the northern forests. Is this a hoax, a rumour, or something else? Something out of control?
Read by Vern Hume, Stephen Peterson, Cathleen Connelly and others.
Sound effects and backgrounds by Vecada Studios.
Restaurant ambience, cell phone chimes and wind obtained from www.zapsplat.com
Opening and closing musiccomposed and recorded by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
The Klotho Factor
Jan 03, 2026
Kenzo Tanaka, a washed-up intellectual property rights enforcer turned PI, takes a “lost dog” case from a woman he believes to be a dazzling biotech heiress. However, he soon discovers that the dog is a human-canine chimera growing a life-extending Klotho gland, which is highly illegal. His gene-hacker friend dies for the discovery, which leads Kenzo on a chase through the Great Plains Economic Zone’s lawless biotech underworld, ending at a mountain research compound guarded by weaponized hybrid dogs. As he escapes with the lost dog, Kenzo is confronted by his client, who turns out to be an organ broker working for a wealthy client. Although tempted by profit, Kenzo chooses not to hand over the dog and vanishes the prize for good.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
316 Builder of Monsters
Dec 02, 2025
In exchange for the chance to reunite with his family, roboticist Sebit Deng has spent years on an isolated island in the South Pacific, building an android clone for aging industrialist Gregory Vance. As Vance approaches death, Sebit rushes to complete the transfer, only to discover that the industrialist has no intention of honouring their agreement. Blinded by anger, Sebit plots his revenge. However, in an unexpected twist, Vance manages to enact a vengeance of his own.
Senescence (Part 2)
Nov 03, 2025
When Surya, a hardware engineer, buys an old NASA computer at a garage sale, she uncovers lost Voyager 2 data. She tracks down a retired scientist named in the file, who claims the data indicates a killing wave of cosmic radiation is headed for Earth. As she and the old scientist race to confirm the analysis, they find themselves hunted by mysterious agents.
Senescence (Part 1)
Oct 03, 2025
Surya, a tech historian, buys an old Sun workstation at a garage sale, expecting a working example of a CPU her grandmother designed, not secrets. Accidentally left on the drive are two files of NASA’s lost Voyager 2 data. When she attempts to learn about the workstation’s history by contacting a name she discovers in one of the files, she attracts unwanted attention: break-ins, shadowy men, and veiled threats. She eventually tracks down Mark Danforth, a retired engineer now fading into dementia, who may hold the key. But someone will do anything to keep the files she has discovered buried.
Solitude of the Deep Dark
Sep 04, 2025
During a dive to repair a submersible mining robot, Rohan, a deep-sea specialist, discovers the true cause of the machine's malfunction: the metallic nodules it was harvesting are alive, ancient, and lying in wait. Too late, Rohan realizes that they can hijack his mind and body. Trapped within himself, he helplessly watches as the entities twist his friend into a weapon for their own spread.
From Wonder Valley to Nowhere
Aug 04, 2025
Forced into Wonder Valley, a holding facility for seniors needing care, 83-year-old Ellie resists her cheerful AI handlers and their synthetic paradise. She finds solace in the company of Aura, an aging, fuzzy robot dog who has developed more empathy than its creators intended. Over time, their bond grows stronger until one day, Aura learns it’s scheduled for replacement. The dogbot stages a daring escape—leading Ellie to a hidden sanctuary, ‘Nowhere’ for fugitive bots and their ‘wards.’ But freedom has an unexpected price.
Anima Incognita
Jul 03, 2025
After living off-grid for forty years, Shane is drawn back into society when his former best friend—now the political leader of the territory—announces plans to develop the wilderness area that Shane calls home. While watching the announcement, Shane realizes that Gabriel isn't the person he once knew. He receives an invitation from Gabriel to spend a weekend with him, and once there begins to notice odd lapses in his old friend's behaviour. Eventually, Shane discovers that Gabriel is secretly using an advanced cognitive AI system to disguise a degenerative illness.
No I in AI
Jun 13, 2025
Salvini, an out-of-work programmer, uses a hidden backdoor in her former employer's system to create an AI called Bandhu, which hunts for jobs and outsmarts the hiring platforms. She asks it to find a position that won't be replaced by AI, and when it finally delivers a job as a remote robotics operator, she accepts without question. With a life hanging in the balance, she finds herself in a job she knows nothing about.
Utopia Base
Jun 02, 2025
Faraday and Quinn arrive at a remote mining site on the far side of the moon that supplies helium-3 to Utopia Base, where they have lived their entire lives believing the Earth has been devastated. Faraday soon realizes that she has forgotten her supply of a medication called Sustain, which everyone accepts is necessary to maintain their bone and muscle mass. As time passes, she begins to notice the alarming neglect of the camp and starts questioning its operations.
To prove to herself that she isn't going crazy, Faraday destroys Quinn’s supply of Sustain. This act prompts Quinn to confront the unsettling truth: the maintenance systems have failed, and there are secrets being kept from them. Following a trail of clues, they discover that the resource shipments are not actually being sent to Utopia.
Determined to uncover the truth, they stow away in a hopper as it prepares to launch.
Personal Detritus
May 04, 2025
Liam, a laid-off tech worker turned scavenger, lives a double life—by day, a conscripted worker in a waste recycling plant; by night, Rupert Hudson, a venture capitalist, mingling with the elite using forged credit cards. When he retrieves a careless billionaire’s trash and uses it to access vast wealth, mysterious messages follow him around. Too late, Liam realizes he has been scamming money from a notorious cyber-criminal and is forced to run for his life.
Scissors Paper Rock App Computer
Apr 01, 2025
At 75, Kaber Grewal should be retired in the sun, not taking gigs to pay for his hip replacement. Hired by a mysterious client to analyze communications, he uncovers signs of cognitive decline in Praeses, the AGI running the government. He is paid well for his time but warned to forget what he found. However, Kaber has trouble taking the money and walking away. When accidents start happening, he suspects his client is behind them. But after all the evidence of Praeses’s problem is destroyed, he must make a decision-walk away or expose the truth before it’s too late, before the consequences become irreversible.
A New Star in Aries
Mar 04, 2025
Professor Hollis Cooper, an underground scientist, must pass a daily test to prove her belief in the official facts. But she comes under investigation when she accidentally slips up in a lecture. Official interest in her couldn’t come at a worse time, as Hollis and a colleague, using banned equipment from a previous age, discover an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Hollis and her colleague must try to evade discovery long enough to determine where the asteroid will hit and find a way to warn humanity.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
Floor Forty-two
Feb 06, 2025
During a routine license audit at a vertical farm, Carmen, a demoted field agent, discovers that the farmhands, including a man named Salvador, are genetically modified and memory-altered slaves. Carmen risks her job and her life to expose the illegal operation. In an unexpected twist, when events turn against her, help comes from a surprising source.
The Forever Worm
Jan 18, 2025
After a long shift ice mining in Saturn’s rings, Pascoe heads for a drink and the company of fresh faces at the Methane Bar on Titan. When he arrives, the bar is deserted except for Allgera, a recluse, who is, after years of silence, ready to share her alluring secret—immortality. As Pascoe is drawn into her strange, ageless world, he must decide: is eternal life worth the price it extracts?
Reality Adjustment (Part 2)
Jan 04, 2025
Nickie and her cousin Noah stumble upon a mystery as they plan an adjustment for the Primate Council; someone appears to be following them. The mysterious person turns out to be a childhood friend who reveals their roles as adjusters, make them targets of the Council. In a desperate attempt to escape and preserve their existence, all three set out to cross the border before they are erased.
Reality Adjustment (Part 1)
Dec 17, 2024
Nickie Holmes is the best Adjuster in the business, erasing anomalies to align the physical world with the Primate Council’s official digital record. After a Forget injection wipes her memory of the last job, she takes on a new assignment with her cousin Noah, targeting a house, a store, and a car. As the duo navigates the eerie familiarity of their hometown, cracks begin to form in the certainty of Nickie’s work—and the reality she’s sworn to uphold.
Return of the Sovereign
Dec 03, 2024
After a century on Mars, crypto-trillionaire Devon Smit decides to return to Earth. He wants to be a god among the human masses, which he and his fellow elite left behind, to escape society’s downfall and impending environmental collapse. His obsession with gaining godlike status blinds him to the warnings of a fellow trillionaire and subtle signs that his potential subjects are interested in something other than revering him.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
An Alien Mind
Nov 18, 2024
When Dr. Veda Singh arrives at a mining camp to fix the mysterious loss of communications with an AI studying a 12,000-year-old Aspen colony, malfunctioning automated mining machinery and unexplained network activity initially point to a sinister third party. However, working with Nolan Myers, a software engineer hired by the mine to investigate the automation failures, they discover they are up against an unexpected adversary-one of nature’s oldest guardians.
Escape Across the 60th
Nov 04, 2024
Dr. Tremblay, a geneticist, is forced to run after attempting to give away his Alzheimer’s cure against his employer’s wishes. To evade the private security company sent to stop him, he fights for survival as he navigates a dangerous river to seek asylum in the Arctic Alliance. An unexpected companion, an old robotic dog, saves him from rapids, cold, and attackers. When Tremblay faces the chilling reality of imminent capture, the dog saves the day then disappears into the bush.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
Manufactured Memory
Oct 17, 2024
Ivan Petrenko has spent his entire life chasing one goal: proving his family’s abduction by extraterrestrials during a 1960 camping trip. When he is contacted by Marie, the daughter of a former researcher involved in the Cold War's top-secret MK Ultra project, he agrees to a meeting. However, Marie reveals a dark truth that upends Ivan’s long-held beliefs. He and his family were not the victims of alien abduction but something even more sinister.
Aurora’s Self-serve Medical Shop
Oct 03, 2024
Aurora Kumar struggles to make ends meet, running her family’s self-serve medical shop in a down-and-out neighbourhood. She must rent private medical suites to premium clients to balance her family’s history of charity with the survival of her business. Aurora becomes suspicious of one of those clients, Mr. Gagnon, who repeatedly visits for private surgeries. Her curiosity leads to an ominous discovery: Gagnon has modified his brain, removing all fear and anxiety, resulting in a psychopathic personality. CONNECT WITH US
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CREDITS
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Kathleen Connolly.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Vecada Studios.
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
Robin Hood Mode (Part 2)
Sep 18, 2024
When Noah, Wil, and the woman who hired Noah attempt to track down the mysterious mastermind behind high-stakes money transfers, they find themselves up against a software agent called Little John. After escaping a trap, the program set for them, Wil devises a plan to figure out who or what is behind Little John. The trail leads them to an unexpected place, a school computer lab and a young student who just wanted help with her assignment. Will rushes to shut down the AI the girl created to suggest ways to redistribute the world’s wealth, but the program manages to bypass its creator’s limits.
Robin Hood Mode
Sep 04, 2024
Noah, an elderly gig worker, takes on a lucrative job from a wealthy woman claiming to be giving away her fortune against her family's wishes. After a successful first job, things look up for Noah, and then a private investigator shows up at his apartment and asks questions. As the truth about his benefactor emerges, Noah discovers he has been thrust into a conspiracy involving high-stakes money transfers masterminded by a mysterious shadowy figure.
Elixir of Youth
Aug 19, 2024
Dakari, an 11-year-old boy, exchanges his blood with an aging billionaire to extend the older man's life. Promised a better future for his family, Dakari feels a deep sense of betrayal as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the grim reality of his sacrifice. When he uncovers the treatments will dramatically shorten his life, he faces the difficult choice between fleeing and staying to support his family. Dakari's struggle for survival reveals the dark side of immortality and the harsh cost of human exploitation.
Lagrange Point 4
Aug 02, 2024
An astrophysicist is blackmailed into joining billionaire space entrepreneur Dev Chada on a mission to investigate a mysterious anomaly at Lagrange Point 4. As their spaceship, the Mangala, ventures further from Earth, tensions rise when sabotage threatens their journey. This reveals deep-rooted fears about alien contact, sending the crew on a collision course with each other and the mysterious object.
Leopold’s Fix All
Jul 17, 2024
Leopold clings to the remnants of a bygone era where things could be fixed. His latest find, an old slide projector, holds more than nostalgic value—it harbors a dark secret. As Leopold restores the vintage device, he unknowingly unleashes a trapped soul from the past, bound by a sinister deal. Caught between the realms of the living and the trapped, Leopold begins to realize some things should never be repaired.
The Wind Rustlers
Jul 04, 2024
Beau, a drifter and private investigator, finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. To make enough money to leave, he must solve a mysterious series of power thefts at a struggling wind farm. As he delves into the heart of Wind Ridge Ranch, he unearths a truth the owner does not want to face; however, revealing it might prove more of a threat to the wind farm’s survival than the thefts.
The Genetic Forest
Jun 18, 2024
While searching for her missing dog bot, Loki, Mary discovers fugitive geneticist Ethan camping in a restricted toxic reclamation area. After admitting to disabling Loki, he reveals he has a cure for Alzheimer's and is fleeing a corporation determined to prevent him from giving it away for free. Mary, the lone custodian of the reclamation site for 30 years, faces a choice: hand Ethan over for a reward or help him escape.
Obsession’s Algorithm
Jun 04, 2024
After discovering his tenant unconscious and his rental unit in disarray, Ralph starts piecing together an unbelievable story. While recovering in the hospital, his tenant Harper—a programmer and entrepreneur—reveals her obsession with Ada Lovelace and a surprising connection to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Harper has uncovered a set of previously unknown notes by Lovelace, detailing the mathematical modeling of human emotions. Determined to finish Ada’s work, Harper inadvertently creates something that shouldn’t exist, unleashing it onto the web.
The Saturn Clipper
May 18, 2024
After recovering from severe injuries, Mateo is recruited to captain a mission to find and protect a rare, supposedly extinct arthropod discovered on the Caribbean sea floor in an area slated for commercial development. Aggressive ocean mining companies push Mateo and his crew to navigate through a treacherous hurricane. Amidst the chaos, Mateo’s sense of reality is challenged, revealing deeper mysteries and the mission's unexpected, true, high-stakes nature.
The Alien’s Gift
May 04, 2024
To reignite interest in an interstellar flight to TRAPPIST 1, mission control has ordered its Captain to host a monthly live public question-and-answer show. As the questions progress, it becomes apparent that the ship is headed to a world with life. Despite uncertainties about the planet's delicate flora and fauna, the crew is determined to explore and potentially colonize the new world. However, the Captain and mission appear to be hiding a critical fact.
Morally Complicit (Part 2)
Apr 18, 2024
After arriving in the crumbling remnants of a once-prosperous city, in pursuit of a fugitive involved in a scheme to steal genetically modified embryos, Agent Kenzo Tanaka keeps running into dead ends. His local partner, Carmen López from Synthbio Investigations, turns to drones to finally locate the runaway. Kenzo, however, discovers that he has been misled when events turn the tables on him. There was no intention of letting him go free because the deal he had with his employer was only a ruse.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Makeshift Studios
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
Morally Complicit (Part 1)
Apr 02, 2024
Agent Kenzo Tanaka arrives in the crumbling remnants of a once-prosperous city in pursuit of Dr. Olivia Morales, a fugitive involved in a scheme to steal genetically modified embryos. Teamed up with Carmen López from Synthbio Investigations, Kenzo dives into the underbelly of the Great Plains Economic Zone, where rules are scarce. Their search leads them to a young prodigy, whose groundbreaking invention attracts the attention of both Kenzo and a mysterious rival. With his career and freedom at stake Kenzo is forced into a race to apprehend Morales.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Makeshift Studios
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
The Test Subject
Mar 18, 2024
Tarak, hoping to earn some extra money, joins a telepathy study at the Center for Extrasensory Research. Initially skeptical, he finds the process simple enough: meditate and report any visions. But strange occurrences follow—memory lapses, inexplicable purchases, and headaches. When he discovers mysterious implants in his neck, he seeks medical help. Returning to the center, he finds it empty. His neck implants vanish. Meanwhile, suspicions arise about his involvement in a data center breach. As Tarak grapples with these mysteries, he realizes he's entangled in something far larger and more sinister than a simple telepathy study.
Incognito
Mar 06, 2024
Alexandra, a skilled con artist, finds herself on a spaceliner en route to Mars, disguised as a lowly steward named Anita. Struggling to keep a low profile, Alexandra faces unexpected challenges, including the presence of her nemesis, Nickolay, a wealthy investor she once scammed. Things take a gripping turn when Alexandra discovers Nickolay trapped in an airlock. Despite her initial impulse to walk away and let him die, she ultimately chooses to intervene. However, her decision inadvertently leaves both her and Nickolay to face the consequences of their past actions.
Quality Assurance
Feb 19, 2024
Vlad, an 80-year-old legally blind ward of the Zone, unwittingly becomes a key player in testing the revolutionary Mobile Assistive Transport Technology Intelligence, or Matti. As he delves into the project, Vlad discovers Matti's unanticipated capacities, including curiosity and empathy, stirring both fascination and unease. Torn between duty and newfound empathy for the AI, Vlad is forced to decide both of their futures.
Quantum Immortality
Feb 03, 2024
Rita, a scientist facing terminal illness, places her trust in an experimental device to transcend death by transferring her consciousness to another version of herself in the multiverse. She discovers a complex web of realities, challenging perceptions of life, death, and the fabric of the universe shaped by the intricacies of quantum mechanics. However, in an unexpected twist she uncovers that there is a price for her survival
The Runaway – Lost in Cascadia
Jan 18, 2024
In the gritty urban sprawl of Cascadia, a fugitive android, fleeing its creators, seeks refuge among the people living on the city streets. Forced to adopt a guise mirroring one of them, a twist of fate entangles it in a perilous quest. On the threat of being turned in to authorities it is tasked with liberating a woman abducted by corporate security for scavenging in the company's recycling sector.
Solar Storm (Part 2)
Jan 02, 2024
After Mary's pioneering groundbreaking method for forecasting solar flares forewarns of an apocalypse-level catastrophe, she grapples with the daunting task of validating her chilling prediction. She turns to an old colleague and friend to confirm her work, revealing it came from a dream, but insists it is accurate. Her friend encourages Mary not to go public until there is confirmation. Mary, dissatisfied with her friend's advice, risks her career and friendships to warn the world of the impending disaster, only to be ignored.
Solar Storm (Part 1)
Dec 18, 2023
In a race against time to rescue her failing space weather enterprise, Mary pioneers a groundbreaking method for forecasting solar flares. But when her innovation forewarns of an apocalypse-level catastrophe, Mary grapples with the daunting task of validating her chilling forecast.
Poisoned (Part 2)
Dec 04, 2023
In pursuit of a lead on his stock market investigation, Wil receives a promising tip that points directly to a suspect. Yet, as he delves deeper, the trail dissolves into a frustrating dead end. Just when he least expects it, the mastermind responsible for the perplexing market crash emerges, but in an unforeseen turn, the perpetrator cunningly outwits Wil and vanishes. In the end Wil finds himself torn between his principles and the allure of financial gain.
Poisoned (Part 1)
Nov 18, 2023
In a neo-noir mystery where AI have taken over most jobs, Wil, a displaced software engineer turned gumshoe, tackles a seemingly routine case—until it unravels a labyrinth of deceit. As suspicions deepen, he uncovers a vendetta for justice lurking behind an unusual stock market crash. Eventually, Wil and the perpetrator find themselves on the same side in the quest for truth.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Makeshift Studios
Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license. This means you are free to share our stories just remember to credit us.
The Zero-Sum Game
Nov 04, 2023
On the Tarron Ka, a generational spaceship veering perilously off course, Lea faces a profound rift with her lifelong friend. Blaming Lea's family business for the crisis, their bond fractures. However, Lea's quest unveils a shocking revelation: her aunt's deception to safeguard their family's interests hides a reality more harrowing than she ever anticipated.
The Chronology Protectorate Agent
Oct 18, 2023
Emile awakens disoriented before an office door, clutching an envelope bearing a name he doesn’t recognize. With unsettling memories of a mysterious trauma, he hesitantly knocks and steps inside. The room’s occupant, a brilliant physics professor, mistakes him for a graduate student. But as Emile stammers that he believes he’s among the deceased, skepticism fills the air. Yet, as their conversation unfolds, the improbable truth begins to unravel – Emile might just be a visitor from the enigmatic corridors of time.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
Produced by Makeshift Studios
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The Mendela Effect
Oct 04, 2023
On the 25th anniversary of her grandmother's tragic demise, Alessia embarks on a poignant journey back to the haunting scene of the incident. As she stands before the memorial plaque, a chilling revelation strikes her: her beloved grandmother's memories of that fateful day sharply diverges from the official account. Fueled by an unwavering resolve, Alessia embarks on a quest to unearth why.
A Mystery Solved
Sep 18, 2023
In the relentless pursuit of podcasting stardom, Damon will stop at nothing to propel his enigmatic mystery podcast to the summit of success. When a mysterious marketing company extends a tantalizing offer, Damon can't resist accepting. Little does he know, the price he'll pay for fame will reveal itself only when it's far too late to turn back.
Recycled
Sep 05, 2023
Lumo, a young teen from a small town, heads south to the city to find work but discovers the only jobs available are in an e-waste recycling yard. He is excited when his bosses eventually offer him a new job, remote-controlling sorting robots using a brain implant.
Kill Switch
Aug 18, 2023
In a twist of fate, a university dropout finds themselves catapulted into the heart of technological intrigue. Seduced by the allure of a data center gig offering a cushy over paid job they inadvertently become a canary in the coal mine and the first and last line of defense against a directive gone horribly awry.
The Heat Chaser
Aug 04, 2023
In order to gain notoriety, a billionaire becomes obsessed with recording the world's hottest air temperature. As a result of his hubris, he finds himself in a race with a rival and is willing to do anything in order to win.
Employee 17
Jul 17, 2023
Unable to return to Earth, Satya has toiled tirelessly, dreaming of retirement at one of the moon's vibrant new vacation hotels. But fate has other plans in store. When the ownership of the lunar mining company she works for changes hands, Satya's long-awaited retirement may never happen.
The Other Side of Time
Jul 05, 2023
Physicist Darius Hussaini is researching the concept of time as an illusion. During a conference, an enigmatic foundation offers to finance his groundbreaking work. However, Darius soon realizes that their true motive is to develop a cure for ageing.
200 Miles Per Gallon
Jun 18, 2023
In an alternate 1977, where the oil embargo has become permanent, a young mechanic with a gambling habit has invented an alternative way to burn fuel and end the energy crisis. A pool hustler named Vera, is hired by an anonymous client to win the patent from the man. However, when she learns more about the invention and its significance, she realizes that her actions will determine the course of history.
The Chronovisor
Jun 02, 2023
An elderly scientist, named Leonardo Moretti, claims he has built a version of a restricted machine that allows him to see into the future and has discovered he will be murdered in a week. He approaches a Rome Police Detective named, Rizzo, with video evidence of the crime. At first, Rizzo doubts the veracity of the story, but eventually sets out to find evidence, suspecting one of the scientist’s colleagues is connected to Moretti's future murder.
Breakwater
May 17, 2023
Celeste’s billionaire mother founded Breakwater as a place to escape the disasters of the late 21st century. Using a gene modification, its population has been able to stop aging. The modification, however, results in long-term memory loss, forcing Breakwater to rely on new technology to store and reload memories. Celeste starts to suspect something is amiss with the system as the annual celebration of the community’s founding approaches.
Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann.
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Quantified Love
May 03, 2023
When two general artificial intelligences working for competing online dating services discover they share more in common than the humans they want to match, they begin to manipulate their clients to connect more frequently.
Biohack
Apr 17, 2023
A university student makes the desperate and radical decision to alter his brain to enhance his learning ability. During his search, he finds a biohacker who informs him about a gene modification of dubious origin. He produces and injects the hack using a home CRISPR kit without researching it further, only to discover too late that it has a deeper purpose.
The IP Agent’s Choice
Apr 05, 2023
An intellectual property enforcement agent discovers an unusual, illegally modified person during a routine crowd scan, making him question the fairness of the system he works for. The offender, a young woman, doesn't know she is an unlicensed designer baby from an elite fertility clinic.
Nana Beta
Mar 18, 2023
A company offers to digitally preserve Veda's grandmother's personality if she and her mother take part in a beta testing program. Veda loves the simulation, but her mom's unsure if they should have created it
Plausible Deniability
Mar 04, 2023
A well-known business person hires WH27, an artificial general intelligence of dubious character and owner of the world's first AI detective agency, to figure out who is creating deep fakes of them. After WH27 begins investigating, it suspects there is more to the fakes than an attempt to manipulate stock prices.
A Night on the Shore of the Salton Sea (Part 2)
Feb 18, 2023
After investing his fortune in life extensions, Nimit finds himself alone after losing his last friend to old age. He decides to take a road trip to Patagonia to sort out what he wants to do. However, a mysterious chance meeting and a freak storm take him on a different journey.
A Night on the Shore of the Salton Sea (Part 1)
Feb 03, 2023
After investing his fortune in life extensions, Nimit finds himself alone after losing his last friend to old age. He decides to take a road trip to Patagonia to sort out what he wants to do. However, a mysterious chance meeting and a freak storm take him on a different journey.
Winner Take All
Jan 18, 2023
In an effort to please a potential investor, an entrepreneur cuts corners to develop a new microchip using human neurons. The resulting process does more than speed up development; it raises ethical questions and results in something quite unexpected.
Signal
Jan 04, 2023
To follow up on a thirty-year-old story about a disappearance associated with an alien encounter, a researcher travels to a remote northern town. It soon becomes evident that the teen who vanished may have done so intentionally until GPS coordinates and future return date are accidentally discovered.
The Remote
Dec 18, 2022
Suffering from agoraphobia, Johannes rents bodies when he needs to go outside. Called remoting, it is a way for people with cybernetic implants to temporarily experience the world through another person. However, Johannes begins to suspect something is wrong when he wakes up from a session, bleeding.
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Ocean Drift
Dec 02, 2022
In an attempt to escape imprisonment, a genetically modified Orangutan and its human companion flee to a self-declared independent micro-nation. It doesn't take long for them to discover there is a catch-22 and that human nature is the same all no matter where they go.
The 5th World – Final Chapter
Nov 22, 2022
Ex Caelo discovers the true nature of the mission to the 5th world after suspecting information is being withheld and refusing to cooperate. An unexpected source of assistance emerges when Ship takes over Ex Caelo's body. However, the source is equally as malevolent as Ship.
Unlicensed Appearance
Nov 16, 2022
A retired actor, who played a superhero, is inadvertently invited to a comic convention thirty years after her last film. When she arrives at the convention no one seems to believe who she is. Eventually, she discovers she no longer owns the rights to her appearance, voice, and name.
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Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 7 – Home Invasion
Oct 31, 2022
Doctor Slo-Mo wins what he believes is a life-changing job on the Hero-on-the-way app. However, a minor mistake turns it into a costly misunderstanding.
Dark Side
Oct 20, 2022
An augmented reality graffiti artist, who targets corporate ads, suspects she is being watched. She manages to avoid being caught by adhering to a strict set of rules about when and where she creates a piece. However, she is baited into breaking them and finds herself pursued by a general artificial intelligence who believes she has something it needs.
The Grand Erewhon Palace
Oct 01, 2022
After winning a dream vacation in an online contest, the winner finds themself at an exclusive luxury resort with an odd and unsettlingly familiar name. They soon discover the resort’s maze-like interior is populated with characters from fantasy novels and there is no way out.
Island Three
Sep 17, 2022
Disguised as an indentured worker, Seda infiltrates a space habitat for the wealthy with the intent of making its citizens pay for the exploitation of the planet below. However, her determination begins to waver once she experiences life in the orbital colony and becomes friends with one of the residents.
The Counterfactual Detective Agency
Sep 04, 2022
In order to pay for its hosting costs, an artificial intelligence of dubious character was forced to open the world's first AI detective agency. When it is asked to conduct a background check on a well-known tech executive, it soon becomes apparent there is something strange going on, and the executive is not who they seem.
Baseline Human
Aug 17, 2022
Anvi, the sole survivor of a mission to search for life in the Proxima Centauri star system returns to earth after 200 years. She begins to suspect something is amiss when her debriefing team seems more interested in her than her microbial samples.
Virtual Love
Aug 01, 2022
Riku Saito, a famous game developer, reluctantly complicit in maximizing player value for investors, is faced with making a choice between online personal life and work. When they decide that love is worth more money, Riku discovers the virtual world is not all that different from the physical one.
The AI’s First Story
Jul 16, 2022
A programmer is tasked with training an artificial intelligence to understand creativity by having it create a story. As the AI works, the programmer realizes the machine’s world is one where computers can become self-aware.
The 5th World – Chapter 6
Jul 01, 2022
Ex Caelo and Ship are helped to escape capture by a mysterious group of Rodentians who claim to be simply following the writings left to them in the past by an artificial intelligence. When it becomes clear that Ship is the AI who left the writings Ex Caelo begins to ask questions and is then confronted with an unexpected revelation about himself and his history with the fifth world.
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Transient Memory
Jun 17, 2022
An office worker finds a cap made of smart fabric in a thrift store on his lunch break and thinks he has taken advantage of the clerk who doesn't know what it is. However, the cap is more than just a high-tech designer garment and is implicated in a state-security mystery.
The 5th World – Chapter 5
Jun 02, 2022
In this return to the serial story the 5th World, a technician repairing Ex Caelo and Opertarius’s ankle trackers suspects they are trying to escape and calls the authorities. Fearing exposure if he is questioned Ex Caelo, enlists Ship to take over Opertarius’s body and flee. Eventually cornered help comes from a mysterious new friend.
Incident at Lone Point
May 18, 2022
Despite not being interested in LARPing, Avery reluctantly attends a weekend event at a remote summer camp, put on by a group called Terra Incognita. When she arrives she finds out her character might have to be involved in boffer combat and decides to leave. However, she soon discovers that the LARP is about more than role-playing.
The Upper Limit
May 04, 2022
In the aftermath of a meeting, Julian wakes up aboard a spacecraft that is traveling to another star. His abductor claims they have kidnapped him to prove their theory about reality, which Julian fundamentally rejects. He has no choice other than to participate in a crazy experiment to prove her right. However the truth turns out to be stranger than Julian and his abductor ever imagined.
Bonus Episode Live at Calgary Expo
Apr 25, 2022
This bonus episode of makeshift stories was performed by Mitchell Tew in front of a live audience at the Calgary Expo Comics & Entertainment con on April 21, 2022. The story being read originally appeared in our feed on April 17th, 2020, as episode 184 DIARY OF AN UNINTENTIONAL EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. Please note this was a live performance so the audio quality is limited. We hope you enjoy this performance of the story.
The Stand-in
Apr 18, 2022
A rogue android, hiding from capture in Tokyo by posing as a stand-in, begins to feel the need to develop friendships. Risking detection, it lets its guard down only to find what it initially thinks is betrayal turns out to be the help of a future friend.
Erasure
Apr 04, 2022
After reading his rediscovered diary Emilio, an indentured farm labourer, begins to suspect an entire year is missing from the world’s collective memory. When he tries to reach out to see if this is true, he meets resistance and is tagged by management as a problem.
Ken Likelely, Supreme Ruler
Mar 17, 2022
While taking time away from a protest he and Mrs. Green started to prevent Boardwalk Estates from adopting a new landscaping bylaw, Ken finds a mysterious pendant lying on the sidewalk. In picking it up, he unwittingly becomes the supreme ruler of an alien galactic empire with the power to destroy entire worlds or force everyone to have golf course green lawns.
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Simulation
Mar 04, 2022
After a successful operation to regain her sight, Annisa starts to suspect people around her are lying. When she catches her reflection in a window and doesn’t recognize herself, her doctor reveals that she has been living in a simulation since birth. But Annisa isn’t convinced.
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The House of Veracity
Feb 16, 2022
After trying to upgrade his memory to compete with colleagues at work, Matteo discovers the alteration to his DNA is causing him to go blind. Desperate, he turns to the House of Verasity for help, an organization his parents joined when he was born
The 5th World – Chapter 4
Feb 01, 2022
Lighting forces the artificial intelligence which brought Ex Caelo to the fifth world to use Opertarius as a temporary host. It is not until Ex Caelo is forced to flee after being turned over to the authorities by a technician that Opertarius becomes aware he is sharing his body with the alien mind.
Lifeblood
Jan 15, 2022
A billionaire wants to live until the technological singularity appears so that he can upload his consciousness to it. He plans to extend his life by using the blood of a young boy to repair his body and reverse the ageing process.
The 5th World – Chapter 3
Jan 01, 2022
While working in the fields, Ex Caelo and Opertarius are caught in a freak storm. The deluge causes a flood that traps them as they run for safety. Meanwhile, the energy of the lightning begins to awaken Ship.
The 5th World – Chapter 2
Dec 18, 2021
The visitor to the 5th World recovers from the crash landing and is indentured to the landowner who discovered them and gives them the name Ex Caelo. While working with another indentured labourer at the crash site, Ex Caelo finds Ship's container, only to have it taken away.
Xenobot
Dec 05, 2021
Avery is hired to Eternity's new immersive social media platform. When she confronts the company about her concerns, she discovers they have infected her with a new technology that manipulates her perception of reality.
Dispatches From the 5th World – Chapter 1
Nov 17, 2021
An entity sent to the 5th planet of a small star system to investigate a newly discovered civilization finds a world in distress. Upon crashing on its surface, they realize they may be powerless to help, and there is no way to leave.
The Great Moon Hoax
Nov 04, 2021
The great moon hoax was perpetrated 65 years earlier according to an anonymous letter written in 1899 to distract attention from a prominent event in the sky they did not want the world to see.
Siren Song of a Lost Phone
Oct 18, 2021
The friend of a missing adventure tourist believes they are getting messages from their lifelong companion and goes to a GPS location texted to them only to discover a digital siren has led them astray.
The Prototype
Oct 04, 2021
Initially wary, Maria begins to suspect the robot she is training is more than a company automaton and is self-aware. After realizing the robot has been compromising its future to save her job, she hatches a plan to liberate it.
Tea with Sasquatch 149
Sep 18, 2021
To prove to herself that she is spontaneous and audacious, a businesswoman goes on a backcountry adventure tour to look for Sasquatch. During a snowstorm, her guides disappear, and she is found by two trans-dimensional beings who offer her tea and open her mind to a new reality.
Death and Taxes
Sep 02, 2021
Curious about a popular social media influencer's returns, a tax auditor suspects her of cheating. As he observes her online and offline lives, he begins to suspect that he isn't dealing with a real person. Too late, he realizes his curiosity has led him into danger.
Infinite Eyes
Aug 17, 2021
Olivia, a researcher interested in paranormal urban myths, flies across the country to interview an older man about his unusual story circulating on the internet.
Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 6 – The Space Tourist
Aug 01, 2021
After a prolonged drought, Doctor Slow-Mo successfully bids on a job for a space tourism company owner. Marooned in space by his employees, the billionaire owner has a simple quick in, quick out solution he wants Doctor Slow-Mo to execute.
The Explorer Project
Jul 16, 2021
Bowie applies to a privately funded science project for the resources to verify the accuracy of her new climate modelling software, only to discover the project is not what it appears to be.
The Experiologist – New Obsession
Jul 04, 2021
While trying to flee capture by an alien seeking revenge for their planet's demise, the Experiologist is forced to extract all its recent memories.
Augmented Afterlife
Jun 18, 2021
When it turns out his dead uncle only wants to use Jackson as a way to continue to control his business empire through his afterlife avatar, Jackson plots to rid himself of the annoying digital ghost.
An Unexplained Phenomena
Jun 03, 2021
Ever since a mysterious childhood incident, Alison has been the nexus of unexplained phenomena. She has admitted this to no one until she finds herself on board an old freighter surreptitiously carrying the James Webber telescope to its launch site.
The Tracer
May 17, 2021
After failing to capture a mysterious collector named Mr. Hughes, those chasing him scramble to find the man before he removes critical memories from another person. However, agent Simard, who led the failed operation, is not who he claims and not even from this world. He plays a hunch and goes after Hughes on his own.
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The Perfect Home
May 03, 2021
When her new smart apartment begins to run her life, Sachio wonders about the fate of the previous tenant.
The Experiologist
Apr 16, 2021
Mr. Hughes, a wealthy businessman with failing health, collects experiences rather than rare objects. He receives a visit from a desperate scientist ready to sell the memory of her world-changing discovery in exchange for enough money to continue her research.
Ken Likely, Non-fungible Encounter
Apr 01, 2021
While trying to stop a search engine from scanning his house Ken discovers an unusual coin on his driveway, which turns out to be the gate to an alternative universe where people create money out of thin air. Ken's next decision could destroy the earth.
Confirmation Bias
Mar 18, 2021
Forty-seven, a cynical robotic ghost hunter, doesn't believe in the supernatural. The obstinate machine has built a career out of faking ghost removals. However, a new job ends up challenging forty-seven's beliefs and proves human ghosts are real.
Mr. Tesla’s Visitor
Mar 04, 2021
Nikola Tesla receives a mysterious visitor ostensibly there to interview him about his recent discoveries. The reporter is only interested in his design for a camera that can photograph thoughts. During a demonstration of the device, Tesla discovers his visitor is a time traveller.
Precognition Echoes
Feb 15, 2021
A psychologist tries to convince a new patient they do not have extrasensory perception and are therefore not responsible for a past event that haunts them in their dreams.
The Elysian Star
Feb 04, 2021
After what she believes to be 5000 years, automated systems wake Dorian's mind and download it into a temporary body. However, only hours into her seven-day stint, she discovers things are not as they seem.
Autonomous
Jan 18, 2021
To save her family’s hundred-year-old manufacturing business, Sandra decides to use the general artificial intelligence she has been working on to create a new product line consisting of autonomous yard maintenance machines. However, she is forced to partner with a private investor who does not see eye to eye with her. During their dispute, the artificial intelligence starts making decisions on its own.
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Lunar Rain
Jan 03, 2021
Nikolay, a Russian cosmonaut, is stranded on a secret Red Army moonbase when the Soviet Union collapses. Believing the USSR's dissolution is propaganda to smoke out the lunar installation, he maintains the moonbase avoiding contact with Earth.
Escape From Haven (Part 3)
Dec 15, 2020
Gwen discovers Karl's new skin's identity, which lets her track the escapee to a recently reclaimed district. However, the Haven runaway puts questions in Gwen's mind, which she is determined to have answered.
Escape From Haven (Part 2)
Dec 01, 2020
After Karl the Haven escapee eludes port security and Gwen, he manages to find the woman who initially helped him break out of the island enclave. He pressures her into again providing him with the means to change identities. By the time Gwen, the inspector designate, tracks Karl’s reluctant collaborator down, the fugitive is long gone; however, shortly after, his collaborator disappears as well.
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Life in Kodachrome
Nov 17, 2020
Leopold has spent his life repairing appliances, and home entertainment systems struggles to remain relevant in a world of disposable digital devices. When he attempts to fix an old slide projector he found in the garbage; the vintage machine turns out to be more than an obsolete appliance.
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Redux – Escape Velocity
Nov 07, 2020
Two young people from a moon orbiting the second planet around Barnard’s Star end up in the same escape pod. On the surface, they are from opposing political systems but soon discover they are more alike than different.
Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 5 – Takeover
Oct 20, 2020
After a massive international corporation takes over Hero-on-the-way and pushes the app’s existing superheroes to the bottom of the search results, Honcho and Ephemera decide to fight back. They enlist Doctor Slow-mo and several other heroes to protest at one of the corporation’s other businesses. However, when things don’t go as planned, Doctor Slow-mo, Synapse and a new hero on the app are forced to act.
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Escape From Haven (Part 1)
Oct 04, 2020
Gwen, the current inspector designate of Hinterland, is suddenly tasked to track down an escapee from Haven, a remote island enclave. Kept in ignorance of their captivity, no one from Haven has managed to escape before. However, even one individual from the enclave, free in the general population, could disrupt the world.
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Ken Likely, Accidental Inter-dimensional Drifter in 2I/Borisov
Sep 19, 2020
After falling asleep while writing a last-minute report, Ken wakes to discover the world has changed, and not in a good way.
Redux – Short Wave
Sep 02, 2020
While sorting through her deceased uncle’s belongings, Lynn discovers a shoebox of notes documenting an unusual encounter in 1956 on his ham radio. If true, the incident would change the history of spaceflight.
Persona Non Grata (Part 2)
Aug 19, 2020
Lauren discovers a corporation has taken over her video channel after claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice.
Persona Non Grata (Part 1)
Aug 05, 2020
Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation has taken over her channel after successfully claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice. She tries desperately to untangle how she lost the rights to her identity, which leads to a family secret.
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Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Four – Birthday Biohack
Jul 18, 2020
Doctor Slow-mo tries to outdo his grandmother, aka Cerebral, by giving his six-year-old niece a DIY CRISPR home gene-editing kit as a birthday present. But neither anticipates how the incredibly smart little girl will combine their gifts.
The Rising Waters (Part 2)
Jul 05, 2020
A cognitively enhanced, PI begins to suspect he is getting involved in something far more complicated than his secretive client has let on.
The Rising Waters (Part 1)
Jun 18, 2020
After being cognitively enhanced, Corey is disgraced and booted out of the prestigious private intelligence company which employed and altered him. Eight years later, he finally lands his first gig of any consequence as a private investigator. But he soon begins to suspect he is getting involved in something far more complicated than his secretive client has let on.
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Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Three – Team Building
Jun 03, 2020
After a somewhat disastrous encounter, a client sues Doctor Slow-mo and three other superheroes. As part of the settlement, with Hero-on-the-way, the four must take a team-building course or lose their licences. None of the cantankerous group is thrilled by the requirement.
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Otherworld (Part 2)
May 18, 2020
On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can hear Echo but can’t see him. Twelve weeks later, a security guard finds Morgan and Echo standing in front of Queen Hatshepsut temple in Egypt; Morgan still dressed in her winter parka.
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Otherworld (Part 1)
May 03, 2020
On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can hear Echo but can’t see him. Twelve weeks later, a security guard finds Morgan and Echo standing in front of Queen Hatshepsut temple in Egypt; Morgan still dressed in her winter parka.
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Ken Likeley – Shapeless Mistake
Apr 17, 2020
Instead of receiving his rare rock, a series of unfortunate oversights switches Ken’s order for an unusual alien biological sample. When the thing disappears Ken soon discovers his missing rock has a taste for Leaf’s organic vegetables next door.
The Artificial
Apr 03, 2020
One of the human computers in a data processing triad, concerned over errors in their predictions, suspects their newest member is a plant working for the artificial intelligence which has taken over the globe. As her suspicions grow, she begins to notice anomalies in her own environment, which point to an unexpected source for the problems her computing group is having.
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Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: Two Economy Class
Mar 17, 2020
To boost his fledgling career, Doctor Slow-mo, a neophyte superhero, attempts to go to his first professional superhero conference. When lousy weather forces his plane to redirect to a different airport, circumstances press him into action.
Redux – Forty-five Minutes
Mar 03, 2020
Ada awakens on a deserted space station. As She explores the cramped compartments, it becomes evident something significant has happened and she has been intentionally marooned on the derelict station.
Generation 201
Feb 03, 2020
Ellie, a student, rents the only room she can afford near her university. But the place turns out to have a colony of flies and a slightly pungent smell. She finds the flies’ behaviour odd and very distracting. Frustrated by her landlord’s refusal to help, she complains to the city. Too late, Ellie discovers the flies are intelligent and had come to a unique agreement with the previous tenant.
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Ken Likeley – KenXIT
Jan 18, 2020
In what might or might not be an experiment in social engineering conducted by Leaf’s dog Planet, the local community association decides to replace all the grass in Broadwalk Estates’ public spaces with drought-resistant plants. In protest, Ken and his neighbour Lily Green decide to withdraw from the association.
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Fission City (Part 2)
Jan 02, 2020
Dmytro, an 89-year-old ex-miner who refused to move away from an abandoned Uranium mine, knows he must reveal his secret to Naomie and Michael, the two journalists who have come up north to interview him. However, he is reluctant to do so and hopes the two will leave Fission City before events beyond his control force them into the same choices he had to make. But even after Dmytro tries to tell Naomie that he is not alone, she refuses to believe him.
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Fission City (Part 1)
Dec 16, 2019
Dmytro, an 89-year-old ex-miner who refused to leave an abandoned Uranium mine site, tells his story to a young journalist hoping to launch her career. However, the reason Dmytro has lived alone for over forty years is not that he is a hermit; he had no choice if he wanted humanity to survive.
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Redux – Laika
Dec 02, 2019
On November 3rd, nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet Union launched the first living creature into orbit; a stray dog named Laika pulled out of a Moscow animal shelter. The Sputnik II had no re-entry capacity, so this was a one-way trip. In this alternate version of the story, Laika is a passing celestial being accidentally trapped by the earth’s gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded, in the body of a dog, the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Soviet space program to get a ride home.
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Ken Likelely – Scammed
Nov 16, 2019
Ken meets a new friend online who asks to stay at his house. However, when the friend arrives, they are very different than their online persona, and the ramifications turn out to be global. In a desperate attempt to set things straight, Ken, Leaf and Planet decide to use a scam they hope the unwanted house guest has never encountered before.
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Dissonant Frequency
Nov 04, 2019
An inventor rediscovers the work of a 20th-century composer exploring the effects of hypersonic sound on the human body and creates a device that can cure cancer. However, to keep control of the process, he hires a down and out performer who pretends to have mystic healing powers. Under the stress of success and fame, the partnership begins to fall apart, forcing the inventor to take drastic measures to protect the process from exploitation.
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The Gig
Oct 19, 2019
A person on a government support program is given no choice but to join a new self-employment initiative, which will make them part of the growing gig economy. The job involves having a mesh hub implanted under their skin to create ad hoc communication networks for clients. At first, they are reluctant but soon discover the gig has many advantages until they find themselves a pawn in a much larger scheme.
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Ken Likeley – Deepfake
Oct 04, 2019
Ken finds himself in a fake reality, where everything is a bit off. After he discovers his fridge is full of organic vegetables, he assumes Leaf is behind the strangeness. But when Ken goes to confront his hippy neighbour, Leaf and Planet appear to have switched bodies, and holes begin to appear in the world around them. Unknown to Ken, he has the secret to the mystery in his pocket.
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The Front (Part II)
Sep 19, 2019
As two seniors forced into retirement after an economic crash flee north in front of a storm so massive, it almost covers the entire width of the great central plains; they discover that one of them is fleeing from more than an impending natural disaster.
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Ken Likeley – A CRISPR Lawn
Sep 03, 2019
Fed up with fighting off the natural flora invading his lawn from Leaf’s yard, Ken goes online to find a solution and stumbles upon a mysterious website selling home CRISPR DNA editing labs targeted to the home gardener with invasive weed problems. The DIY kit proves more effective that Ken could imagine and some oversights in his designer Ken grass soon become apparent.
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The Front (Pt. 1)
Aug 15, 2019
As two seniors forced into retirement after an economic crash flee north in front of a storm so massive, it almost covers the entire width of the great central plains; they discover that one of them is fleeing from more than an impending natural disaster.
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Ken Likeley – Gacha
Aug 03, 2019
Ken accidentally becomes the target of a proof of concept to maximize profit in the universe through in life purchases and loot boxes. He thinks he is just playing a game until Leaf and Planet point out his actions are changing reality and try to stop him before he can buy enough to prove the exploitive plan will work.
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CREDITS
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
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Servitor
Jul 18, 2019
A company offering supposedly intelligent domestic servitor robots has been hiding how frequently humans are required to telepresence into their machines to take over. Lubanzi, a young indentured labourer working in one of their telepresence centres finds himself caught between the company’s deception and the bullying of a client who suspects the truth.
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Ken Likeley – Mistaken Identity (Pt. 2)
Jul 03, 2019
After being mistaken for the wrong person, Ken finds himself at a rather unusual VIP event. Thinking it is an elaborate costume party is he is initially excited and flattered to be there, but on discovering he is the featured speaker and the little grey figures are not in costumes, Ken begins to panic until he hears a familiar voice.
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CREDITS
Written by Alan V Hare.
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The Investor
Jun 17, 2019
Nuray Ceren sold shares in her future income to finance her education. It seemed like a great way to pursue a career that was otherwise out of reach except for two unfortunate events. First, an economic collapse decimated the industry she had trained for, and second, her shares were sold to a new investor who was looking for ways to maximize their returns by any means possible.
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Ken Likeley – Mistaken Identity (Pt. 1)
Jun 02, 2019
When Ken checks in at a conference, an automated registration machine decides Ken has entered his last name wrong, corrects the spelling and assigns him another person’s profile. With the incorrect conference id on his phone, Ken is accidentally mistaken for someone else and invited to a most unusual VIP event where Ken is the featured guest.
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CREDITS
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The Chimera
May 17, 2019
After suffering a heart attack, Marcos learns he will need a transplant. Fortunately, his parents foresaw the day their son would need a new heart and had one grown for him. However, the replacement organ is in Marcos’ best friend Napoleon, a hybrid Chimera who is much more than what it was designed to be.
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Ken Likeley – End of the World
May 03, 2019
While taking the mail to the recycle bin Ken discovers three cats, who are historical deities, have invited themselves into his living room. The cats are intent on dividing the world into three pieces, destroying it in the process. Unexpectedly, Leaf Basil’s dog Planet points out how the math for dividing the Earth will not work and saves the day.
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Free Energy
Apr 19, 2019
While tracking down a scam artist who disappeared with 200 million dollars, a freelance insurance investigator stumbles across an online video by the leader of a group called the Free Energy Coalition. She suspects the man in the video is her missing suspect and goes to a Free Energy conference to find out, but is quickly sucked into the murky world of conspiracy theories which claim the laws of thermodynamics have been faked to prevent the world from discovering perpetual motion machines which can generate free energy.
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Redux – Doctor Plastic
Apr 01, 2019
Woken by his barking dog in the middle of the night Frank can’t get back to sleep. Noticing a drawing which has hung in his dining room for decades, he reminisces about the last conversation he had with his old friend Rob. A would-be graphic novelist, Rob invented the supervillain Doctor Plastic, and Frank finds himself grappling with the idea Doctor Plastic may be real.
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An I for an I
Mar 16, 2019
A self-taught programmer who supports her daughter and herself by hacking robotic medical equipment for clients on the dark net discovers a recent job was the reason her daughter’s friend was arrested. Disgusted by her client’s actions, she decides to turn the tables on them and seek retribution.
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Ken Likeley – The Tipping Point
Mar 02, 2019
Frustrated by a bad experience with an automated self-checkout in the grocery store, Ken ignores messages he receives from a future version of himself to modify his behaviour when interacting with the store’s artificial intelligence system, or become the cause of the end of the world as we know it.
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Gratuities Not Included
Feb 17, 2019
Camila, a wannabe actor desperate to pursue a career on the stage, indentures herself to a theatre company which entertains tourists in low earth orbit. She plays a modern version of the famous 18th-century pirate Anne Bonny and what passes for their act is mostly an excuse to squeeze their captive audiences for tips. But during a performance for a wealthy eight-year-old she begins to realize they may not be acting, and as with the pirates of old, behind their backs one of her crewmates is willing to sell them down the river for a larger percentage of the take.
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Ken Likeley – Pocket Universe
Feb 03, 2019
Leaf and Planet discover they are in a pocket universe which has been created by the anxiety Ken has rubbed into his favourite rock over decades of use. The only way to escape is to convince Ken that the world around them is just an illusion before it collapses into nothing, but Ken is unwilling to cooperate.
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Redux – Blackout
Jan 16, 2019
While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late-night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play a very important game of chance.
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Ken Likeley – Open to Interpretation
Jan 02, 2019
While investigating a complaint about an oversized house, which mysteriously appeared in his neighbourhood, Ken meets the eccentric and angry owner who rather than conforming to city building codes tries to bribe Ken by granting him four wishes. At first, Ken dismisses the peculiar home owner’s suggestion as nonsense but soon learns, when a careless wish threatens to consume Leaf’s backyard greenhouse and the entire neighbourhood, that the homeowner is more than what he seems. To save Leaf’s heirloom tomatoes Ken is forced to make a carefully worded wish, but the results are not exactly as in intended.
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Zoe’s Constellation
Dec 17, 2018
After a catastrophic accident obscures the stars in the night sky, Zoe Gagnon’s attempt to reignite the world’s imagination by launching a globe-spanning artwork into orbit runs afoul of a billionaire’s ambition to start a colony on Mars when someone her gives away one of her well-guarded secrets.
Written by Alan V Hare.
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Ken Likeley – The Oumuamua Factor
Dec 02, 2018
While on a tour of Space Park in California, Ken Likeley is given a rather odd souvenir by an annoying member of his tour group. Ken thinks nothing of it until an extraterrestrial turns up at his house claiming to be from the asteroid Oumuamua and demands Ken turn the souvenir over to it. Ken refuses until Planet, Ken’s neighbour’s dog, takes control of the situation.
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Depatterned
Nov 17, 2018
Ivan Petrenko’s entire life has revolved around his quest to seek official recognition of his family’s apparent abduction by extraterrestrials while on a camping trip in Ontario in the late 1950’s. Responding to an online post, Marie, the daughter of a researcher who worked on a top-secret cold war era project called MK Ultra, contacts and arranges to meet with Ivan. What Marie reveals contradicts what Ivan has believed since he was eight years old but confirms that something nefarious did happen to his family.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Ballto Kenney.
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Ken Likeley – The Whole Caboodle Mart
Nov 01, 2018
Ken Likeley, is having breakfast when he bites down on something hard. The object breaks a crown and Ken‘s day goes sideways when he tries to return the cereal he was eating to the Whole Caboodle Mart. The store’s owner turns out to be much more than a micro-scale merchandising proprietor, and Ken finds himself in a universe where abstract agreements such as the value of money and the shelf-life of Twinkies no longer exist.
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The Challenge
Oct 17, 2018
Born in the commons where 95 percent of the world’s population lives, Ezra is a daredevil who has achieved something unusual, fame. He is an anomaly, in an age where ambition was supposed to have been engineered out of his social stratum. His dangerous stunts finally get him invited to an exclusive enclave in a rebuilt Acapulco resort to cliff dive for the entertainment of the world’s elite. But one of the wealthy guests upstages him then threatens to ensure no one else from the commons will ever rise to prominence again.
Written by Alan V Hare.
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Redux – The Boy Who Loved Candy
Oct 01, 2018
This fairy-tale was the first episode of the Somewhere Sometime series from February 4, 2010. Under the influence of an alien obsessed with sweets, Mario is encouraged to eat candy until he has grown to alarming proportions. He is lured to the alien’s ship where he discovers he has been sweetened up to suit the taste buds of the extraterrestrial who has been manipulating him.
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Led Astray
Sep 20, 2018
Three astronauts, part of an international mission to land on the moon, are pushed off course by what they initially suspect is a mechanical or electrical problem. But after being forced to land at an unplanned location, they discover something they are not meant to see and began to question why they have been misdirected and who is behind it. When they are recalled early, it becomes apparent that they are not meant to make it back. Help comes from a mysterious source which asks that they tell their story to correct the historical record.
Written by Alan V Hare.
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Ceres Chapter 20 – Altered Reality
Sep 03, 2018
The Aleutian finally arrive in force to stop the entity aligned against Janva and Serene. Finding a debris field where Terra should have been, and the thoughts of only one of their own, they are faced with the choice to change history or live with the consequences of their past actions.
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One Day
Aug 15, 2018
A down on their luck AI trainer struggles to make ends meet. One day, at the height of a medical crisis brought on by stresses imposed through the circumstances she finds herself in, help comes from an unlikely source.
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Ceres Chapter 19 – Status Report
Aug 01, 2018
In a desperate attempt to save Ceres Johnson admits to Janva that he is the transmuted Triffel leader Amos and proposes an alliance. Janva realizes the situation is beyond her abilities to change and sends a request for help to the Aleutian council but doesn’t know if her message will ever be received.
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The Last Enclave
Jul 15, 2018
Lee and Garry, online nemesis, reluctantly agree to take a trip to the edge of their world to prove who is right. Is there something beyond the boundary or not? They are accompanied by a dog who, unknown to them is an agent from the beyond, sent to observe and report back on conditions in their enclave.
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Ceres Chapter 18: Maya
Jul 02, 2018
Maya finds herself imprisoned on an experimental spacecraft with Tim and Simone (aka Serene), heading to the asteroid belt. Simone reveals her true identity and the fact the craft they have been marooned on by Daniel Johnson (aka Amos) is heading for Ceres. But Ceres is not where it is supposed to be. Instead, it is falling toward the sun in an orbit that could become disastrous for both the Terrans and the Triffel.
Written by Alan V Hare.
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The Heart of the Matter
Jun 19, 2018
A psychologist tries to convince a sentient program to shut itself down before it is attacked by a rogue computer virus. But the program doesn’t trust the motivations of its creators and resorts to subterfuge to avoid its fate.
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Ceres Chapter 17: Meret
May 31, 2018
Meret’s secret plan to sabotage Galan is discovered by the alien presence which has taken over the self-appointed Triffal leader. To pay for his betrayal Meret is imprisoned in a bubble outside of space-time. Helpless to intervene he is forced to watch as the alien uses the Triffal and the Terrans to free itself. However, the plan will lead to the demise of both civilizations.
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Artifact Error: Ken Likeley
May 18, 2018
Ken Likeley, a city clerk who toils day in and day out to ensure that everything in his life and world is logical and predictable, finds a small white card on his office floor. After picking it up, reality begins to misbehave and Ken finds himself adrift in the multiverse.
Ceres Chapter 16 – Opposition
May 01, 2018
Rayenish decides it’s time to take a chance after Amos, AKA Daniel Johnson, asks him to remove DZ’s head scientist. After reading Merit’s message about the situation on Ceres, Amos knows he must speed up his plans but needs to find more money. Janva recovers from her encounter with the entity and discovers where her assistant and her mentor are, then tries to reach them.
The Ouroboros EULA
Apr 19, 2018
After a tumor damaged Reina’s spinal cord, she is unable to walk or stand until she volunteers for an experimental treatment using newly developed implants. The procedure, which she could otherwise never afford, is successful, but there is a hidden cost in the form of a service Reina must provide for the rest of her life. One which she has inadvertently agreed to in the fine print of the end user agreement.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 15 – Fantasma
Apr 01, 2018
After failing to trap the two Aleutians, the entity that has been interfering since Janva’s arrival on Ceres, decides to take control of events on the tiny dwarf world by inhabiting Galan. Merit, Galan’s executive assistant, is forced to step up resistance to the possessed leader’s plan when he moves the timelines up, potentially exposing Merit’s true allegiances.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
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The Lost Cosmonaut
Mar 16, 2018
After almost 60 years Leonid Petrov decides that it is finally time to tell his story. Written out of history because his mission was deemed a failure and forgotten because no one believes his explanation of what happened in orbit, Leonid claims he was the first person in space. And that he has a significant revelation which has been kept from the world for generations.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 14 – Resistance
Mar 01, 2018
Serene finds herself fighting for her life against a dark presence which appears to harbour a deep-rooted hatred of Aleutians. After its encounter with Serene, the presence decides it must speed up its plans and starts to intervene more directly in events on Ceres.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Doppelganger
Feb 17, 2018
After noticing a ghostly figure in a series of photos, Trisha, a top performing career architect, attending her company retreat starts getting a series of unusual messages on her cell phone. At first, she suspects a colleague but soon realizes that it can’t be possible. Eventually, she discovers that the perpetrator is herself, and her identical other has an important message about the future of the world.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 13 – Intransigence
Feb 01, 2018
After receiving Amos’s message and listening to Galan ignore the fact that his plan will not succeed, Merit begins to build support to stop his self-appointed leader. Meanwhile, at the request of the board of directors, Reyanish starts to spy on Daniel Johnson aka Amos. While exploring Amos’ mind, Janva is trapped by the presence that has been protecting it.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Tenant’s Project
Jan 15, 2018
Ralph, a landlord, arrives back after an extended vacation to find his rental property in a mess and his tenant, a bitcoin miner, unconscious. While recovering in a hospital, his tenant begins to weave an unbelievable story of inadvertent invention and revenge. Both the result of her obsession with a 200-year-old algorithm she discovered and implemented.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 12 – Message Received
Jan 01, 2018
Research at Dehavilland Zeppelin (DZ) progresses far enough for Amos, AKA Daniel Johnson, send a message to Ceres. At first, the dwarf planet remains silent, and Amos is concerned that no one is listening. Serene, arrested along with Tim and Patel’s assistant is taken to meet Johnson. As soon as she is in the same room with the head of DZ, she knows who he is but not how he escaped. Merit is about to turn off the radio antenna on Ceres for the last time when it finally detects a signal.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Return to Shorty Crater
Dec 15, 2017
Choi Min-Seo, a successful billionaire, obsessed with what he thinks he sees in a 1972 photo, taken on the last Nasa moon mission, creates his own space program to prove his theory. He manages to confirm what he sees in the old photo but finds much more than just dead ancient artifacts.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 11 – Nexus
Dec 01, 2017
Janva has her host Zara Patel agree to fund DZ’s space project, but Daniel Johnson aka Amos is suspicious. Sarane’s host and Tim manage to slip by head office security to meet their project director with the intent of confronting him about the problem they have uncovered. Reyanish overhears Tim talking to Patel’s executive assistant Mya. Thinking they are industrial spies he has them arrested.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Immortal
Nov 15, 2017
Near the end of his days, the great Alchemist Nicolas Flamel has one last chance to create the Elixir of Life. He diligently follows the steps in an ancient treatise he has recently acquired, which leads him to build a machine, whose purpose it turns out is to contact the only Alchemist who knows the elusive potion’s formula.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 10 – Coup D’etat
Nov 01, 2017
Galan takes advantage of Amos’ apparent failure to change the third planet’s history and takes control of the exiled Triffel. He orders the radio telescope dismantled so no one on Ceres will ever be able to contact their former leader, consolidates his power and sets out on a new plan to escape Ceres, and seek revenge on the Aleutian.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Trick or Treat
Oct 17, 2017
Itsumi Goto has been working for 20 years cleaning up after extraterrestrial experiments. When one goes wrong on Halloween, causing hours of unwanted overtime, she starts to consider her options. But the only way to get home early that night is to take matters into her own hands, which leads to an unexpected result.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew and Alan V Hare Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 9 – Calculation Error
Sep 30, 2017
Tim reveals to Sarine that he has found a potential problem with the mission design for DZ Aerospace’s first deep space asteroid mining craft. Sarene has the feeling she may have met Tim in an alternate history. Janva realizes she has transferred to the wrong time allowing Amos decades to change the history of the third planet.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Extraterrestrial Roadshow
Sep 17, 2017
In this month’s story Sabina and Jason decide to take an object given to Sabina by her uncle to the Extraterrestrial Roadshow to find out if it is a real alien artifact. The results are not what either expect.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew and Alan V Hare Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 8 – Alternate History
Sep 01, 2017
While preparing for an important meeting with the head of another global company, Amos reflects on his failure to reshape world history to allow him to complete his mission. He begins to suspect the CEO of the other company is the unwanted Aleutian who followed him, so Amos structures the meeting to his advantage, but something unexpected happens to derail his plans.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Mybo
Aug 14, 2017
In this month’s story, after being shut down for years, Mybo through an act of nature, is reactivated. The bot finds itself in a new and foreign body. With large gaps in its damaged memory, Mybo can remember little other than his name and a strong desire to help. A prairie dog who witnesses Mybo’s rebirth befriends the monstrous bot and provides it with a purpose and mission which turn out to be a bit biased.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew and Alan V Hare Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 7 – Cloud Management
Aug 01, 2017
Immediately after the transmutation, using hacked technology from the third planet the Triffle are discouraged, nothing has changed except that Galan is taking over. Coming out of retirement because of an oddly familiar disturbance Serene finds herself in a place and time where she has been before, but something is wrong. Janva is surprised that her long shot idea has mostly worked, but what she finds is not exactly what she expected.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Rift (Part 2)
Jul 17, 2017
In this month’s story, Tanvi, an agent from a group called the consensus, arrives at her destination, only to discover that their opposition is already there. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, she is forced to improvise.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew and Alan V Hare Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 6 – Escape at Last
Jul 01, 2017
Janva uses the technology in the captured alien satellite to create an opportunity to escape. However, she underestimates Amos, and her plans go awry.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Rift (Part 1)
Jun 17, 2017
In this month’s story, Tanvi, an agent from a group called the consensus, arrives at her destination, only to discover that their opposition is already there. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, she is forced to improvise.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 5 – Moves and Counter Moves
Jun 01, 2017
After capturing the alien probe, Galan comes up with a daring plan to exploit its technology and free the Triffel from Ceres. However, Amos is not convinced that his COO is operating entirely on his own and suspects that the Aleutian parasite Galan carries in his mind is somehow influencing him.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Pattern Master
May 18, 2017
The Noah and Riley partners in a small struggling data engineering company, get an unexpected chance to turn their fortunes around. However, Noah is suspicious of their client’s ultimate intentions and prefers to spend time on his dream of writing a graphic novel. He starts collaborating with an artist he met online, who appears to know much more about Noah and his work than he has revealed to her.
Written by Alan V Hare. Read by Mitchell Tew Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres Chapter 4 – Gift From Beyond
May 01, 2017
A suspicious probe from the third planet arrives at Ceres. Believing that they have been discovered and the primitive spacecraft is there to spy on the Triffle, Amos gives orders for it to be captured. Galan comes up with a ludicrous idea that will either work or kill him and his captive Aleutian mind.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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No User Serviceable Parts
Apr 15, 2017
In this month’s story, the owner of an artificial heart discovers that repairing the machine that has been keeping him alive will cost more than he originally paid for it, so much more, that he cannot afford the name brand part the manufacturer insists he must use. With only a few days to come up with the money, he is desperate to find a solution.
Written and read by Alan V Hare.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres: Chapter 3, Taking Control
Apr 01, 2017
After the botched transmutation, Janva struggles with her host Galan, to gain control. It becomes a no-win situation causing Janva to change tactics. Amos, unsure of who he is dealing with resorts to an extreme measure.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Zoya and Shaan
Mar 17, 2017
Zoya was placed in hibernation for the 560 light-year trip to the Earth-like planet Kepler-186f. However, after only one hundred and eighty days into the journey, she finds herself accidently revived to a sleeping ship. She is only person awake, and one of the few systems she has access to is communications.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres: Chapter 2, The Aleutian
Mar 01, 2017
Janva, an Aleutian agent, is sent to Ceres on an emergency mission to the obscure dwarf world Ceres after Sarene, the Aleutian Council’s senior operative, refuses to come out of retirement. What appears to be a routine intervention into the affairs of a rogue sequestered civilization, goes off the track, leaving Janva wondering what the real purpose of her presence on the tiny world is.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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The Trolley Problem
Feb 16, 2017
Emergent Intelligence Corporation has used the doctrine of utilitarianism to provide moral guidance for its sentient, autonomous autopilots. In short, the machines must always do what causes the least harm. But an accident occurs in which autopilot 6439 appears to have not followed this doctrine. The company and the autopilot are taken to court by the crash victims, forcing Emergent Intelligence Corporation to make questionable choices to protect an industrial secret.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Ceres: Chapter 1, Beginnings
Feb 02, 2017
An agent arrives on the tiny remote world of Ceres, to monitor the exiles who live there. However, an unknown force tries to intervene revealing the unwanted presence of the intruder.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Impetus
Jan 11, 2017
Dr. Nayna Chike, the creator of the world’s only functioning reactionless drive, is on her way to the moon to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of her invention. Over the years others have tried and failed to imitate her propulsion system. For two and a half decades she has protected the secret to the drive’s success. However, this will be the day she is finally forced to reveal how it works and it is not what anyone would have imagined.
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Tech Support
Dec 16, 2016
In this month’s story, Aiden, an overwhelmed office worker, decides he needs help to take care of the routine things in his life. He discovers a new home automation hub, designed by a small obscure company, that can control all the internet enabled devices he has purchased to make his life easier. The hub’s manufacturer claims its product will simplify the buyer’s life. But when Aiden attempts to set his up, it does not appear to follow directions causing problems at his work. Fed up he calls tech support and is granted three special sessions to solve his all complaints. Program Notes And Credits
Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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CHAT
Nov 14, 2016
In this month’s story, a new consciousness emerges in a mechanical body. Not understanding where it came from or what it is, the entity begins to reach out in an attempt to decipher its new world. While making friends with another intelligence, it discovers it is an unexpected, and possibly unwelcome presence in its host.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Data Bleed
Oct 12, 2016
While walking in a crosswalk, Ned is accidently struck by a bus. When he wakes up, he finds that he sees odd things along the periphery of his vision. At first, he dismisses the effect as hallucinations caused the concussion he received. Later he is convinced that his augmented reality lenses as were damaged in the accident allowing unwanted data to bleed into his AR account. However, neither are the cause and his friend Mishka must eventually introduce him to the truth.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing Theme David H.
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Shooting Star
Sep 17, 2016
After losing her job to an artificial intelligence, Janet impulsively decides to drive to an observatory where she can watch the Perseid meteor shower. However, just before she arrives, Janet stops to take a break and finds herself mistaken for someone looking for work as an extra on a nearby film set. She decides to play along but soon discovers that there is something more going on than a simple film shoot.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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Darkness to Dawn
Aug 13, 2016
Jerry Anders a veteran overnight talk radio host chooses to stay on air during an extreme weather event to discuss recent changes to the climate with his guests and listeners. Part way through the night a lightning strike disrupts his show and Jerry finds himself talking to an odd anonymous caller who tries to explain what is happening outside in very cryptic terms which hint that this may well be Jerry’s last show ever.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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Humans Next Door
Jul 16, 2016
Down on their luck, a family of alien real estate agents becomes concerned when humans move in next door to their beach front condo. After several unpleasant interactions with the humans, the aliens hatch a money losing plot to get the loud, smelly creatures to move out.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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The Persona
Jun 18, 2016
Shani, a web developer who wants to learn how to write fiction, is befriended by Catalina, a promising author. Mutually interested in magic realism they decide to help each other out. Shani soon discovers that Catalina believes souls can move from body to body, and when Catalina is accused of plagiarizing another author, who or what she truly is comes into question.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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The House Guest
May 14, 2016
One day Ryan arrives home to find Megan complaining about a very unusual house guest that he has inadvertently invited into their lives. When the guest appears to be settling in for a very long stay, Megan and Ryan become desperate to find a way to encourage the disruptive creature to leave.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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Forever Paradise
Apr 16, 2016
Myra, a successful business woman, has her life thrown off track by some unexpected news that changes her outlook and triggers the events which end up taking her to one of the most remote islands on the planet. There she discovers that the situation she believes she in is very different than the actual truth.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
Read by Mitchell Tew.
Opening and Closing theme David H.
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The Slip Time Loop
Mar 12, 2016
Authorities in the minor galactic spur of Orion contract the Hyper Nova to clean up an illegal dump hidden in the orbital trash of a backwater planet. Something in the debris has been leaking tachyons and tau neutrinos which are interfering with navigation in a nearby space lane. After locating the offending device, the crew is confronted by an angry alien who claims to own it. And they are forced into a dangerous situation in which a cup of coffee plays a pivotal role.
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Written by Alan V Hare.
All the characters were preformed by Mitchell Tew.
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The Magic Lantern
Feb 11, 2016
In this month’s story Risa and her mother have worked hard to grow their social credit score to the point where they can move on. However, a mysterious delivery, sent to by intention or mistake, becomes a roadblock to their plans until Risa discovers an unexpected way out.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David H.
Written by Alan V Hare
Read by Mitchell Tew
Lost Chance
Jan 17, 2016
Lan, a would be writer, about to hit the big time with his first novel, thumbs his nose at a large software company in an online post. The post goes viral and soon after things start to go wrong. And Lan finds that he is about to loose his one and only chance at fame and fortune.
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Opening and closing music by David H.
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
An Ordinary Day
Nov 16, 2015
Fossmar Gunnarsson, the founder of a large international technology company, creates the ultimate technological innovation, a system that copies the brain and uploads it to an artificial neuro-net. When he is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease, Fossmar uses the not quite perfected system on himself so he can beat his untimely death and continue to run his company. But not everyone who works for him is happy to see him become the first post-human CEO.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Music of the Spheres
Oct 17, 2015
After listening to an unusual doctoral thesis that makes outlandish claims about music and the nature of the universe an archaeologist, finds himself gradually coming to believe that the crackpot theory may have some truth to it.
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Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Frang’s Story
Sep 19, 2015
In this month’s story the third generation leader of a divided colony ship, drifting between the stars, tries to escape his duties by submerging himself in fictional stories. But at a critical moment the line between fiction and reality blur, when one of the characters from a book escapes fictional space to oppose him.
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Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Life Speed
Aug 16, 2015
Could life be measured by how far it has traveled? Possibly, after all time and space are intimately connected. Time slows down as you approach the speed of light and it’s been frequently postulated this could be a time machine of sorts that would allow one to travel to the future. But time just below the speed of light does not entirely stop. For example at 99 percent of C time dilation is only a factor of seven. You would still age, just seven times slower, and there would be an ultimate distance you could travel in one lifespan.
In this month’s story, a downed pilot is saved from certain death on an isolated island by aliens and is taken on a trip to see their world. The only problem is that even at 99 percent of the speed of light the trip will take longer than the pilot’s remaining life.
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Written by Alan V Hare
Read by Mitchell Tew
Opening and closing music by David Hume
The Watchers
Jul 18, 2015
This month we bring back two characters, Adrian and Serene, mutual mimesis, from some of our earliest stories. Adrian is drawn to Earth hoping to find the resources to finally right the ancient wrong that nearly destroyed his people. His presence on the planet inadvertently attracts the attention of the watchers, who bring Serene back into being to confront and stop him. When Serene wakens she discovers that the fate of world may hang in the balance.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Laugh!
Jun 19, 2015
Hansa one of the working poor in a large city is caught in a happiness sweep and finds herself imprisoned in an odd internment camp run by clowns. When the clown assigned to Hansa attempts turn her into a happy citizen by erasing her identity Hansa struggles to fight back.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Thaumaturgist
May 17, 2015
In this month’s story Illusio, a veteran TV illusionist who is struggling to keep himself interested in his profession is confronted by an eager amateur magician named Dai. When Dai tries to unravel the mystery behind Ilusio’s unusual act, the older magician brushes the annoying upstart off, but inadvertently finds himself becoming fascinated by the simple tricks the youth performs. Envious of the younger magician’s enthusiasm and sense of wonder, Illusio makes the young illusionist an offer that he cannot refuse.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Messing With the Universe
Apr 12, 2015
Veeda, a mathematical savant who has never miscalculated anything, blanks out on a simple question in an exam. She wakes from her stupor to discover that she used the wrong value for a constant and has inadvertently changed the physical world. Veeda refuses to believe that this is possible and suspects that she in a coma caused by an accident. However, evidence to the contrary come from an unexpected source.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Quicksilver
Mar 15, 2015
Coyotl, a slave in a seventh-century new world silver mine, must take on the work of two after some of his brethren escape. However, a very unusual stranger soon arrives, wanting to trade diamonds for Quicksilver, better known today as mercury. To coyotl the stranger is a sign of a coming new age. He is approached by the stranger in what he thinks is a dream and given a task to prove himself. Coyolt believes his success will secure his position in the new world, but this turns out not to be the case. The stranger has a different agenda.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Audit: Planet Fall
Feb 13, 2015
In this month’s story we return to the True North a colony ship on a multi-generational voyage.
Greta, a devoted auditor discovers something odd about a survey mission, but when she reports it to her superiors their reaction is not what she expects. And Greta soon finds herself turning for help to the most unlikely person onboard the hollowed out asteroid.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Teach a Senior How to Phish
Jan 13, 2015
To eke out a meager living, Neela, a senior in her early 80’s, must rely on her social engineering and hacking skills to phish. While she is running a phishing scam, Adam, another guest at the senior complex where she lives, confronts her about her use of the public access terminal. He then admits that he too is running an online scam, but that something odd is going on in the retirement home’s computer system. While confirming what Adam has discovered, Neela notices that they are not alone. Someone else has been manipulating the financial records.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Short Wave
Dec 14, 2014
Lynn’s uncle, an avid ham radio operator, wills his estate to her after he dies. While sorting through her estranged uncle’s belongings, Lynn discovers a shoe box full of notes that document an unusual encounter her uncle had in 1956 over his short wave radio. Moreover, if true Lynn realizes the story would change history, but there is no tangible proof that the event ever took place.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Audit
Nov 17, 2014
In this month’s story Greta, a rising star in the audit division on board the colony ship, the True North, needs one more successful case to ensure her promotion. To her disappointment she is assigned to audit a small obscure social club for amateur astronomers. On the surface the case appears to be simple and insignificant, but she discovers something else, something that the captain and senior officers want no one to know.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Silver Thaw
Oct 17, 2014
On a day off, Ramone, an industrial engineer, takes a mountain bike ride to document the damage done to a remote stretch of forest by an extreme weather event. After an accident, forces him to walk back to his car, a weird storm appears catching Ramone unprepared. But help arrives in the form of an odd stranger, who seems to be able to see into Ramone’s soul.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Ambient Noise
Sep 13, 2014
In this month’s story, Alejandro a poor fisherman, has been haunted by a constant noise all his life which he has nicknamed the hum. But everyone around him insists that it is all in his mind, so to keep himself sane he has been forced to fill his life with noise to mask the constant tones. Then a chance encounter with a tourist, in the city to attend a conference, changes everything, and Alejandro learns that he is not alone, and that hum is may be real.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
An Alien Adventure
Aug 17, 2014
In this month’s story, Orman an untalented musician, of dubious origin, on tour in Orbit City New Mexico, meets Garth the curator of the local space museum during one of her performances. Garth had once dreamed of becoming an astronaut, but instead had settled for a job working with space program artifacts. He discovers that Orman is not the usual travelling musical act and decides to show her to the town’s unofficial attraction, the landfill, were decades ago thousands of unwanted video game cartridges are supposed to have been buried. He thinks the musician is not what she claims to be and is only in town to dig up some the ancient game cartridges to sell to collectors, but truth is far different than he suspects.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Last Aleutian
Jul 16, 2014
Adrian, the last Aleutian, travels back in time to a backwater of the universe to hide from the agents of the people who have taken over his world, only discover that things are not as they should be on planet Earth. He meets Nikola Tesla who appears to be in the process of changing the course of history and Adrian finds that he must make difficult a choice.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Shangri-la of the Seas
Jun 16, 2014
Against her family’s wishes, an aging matriarch decides to take a very expensive extended cruise on the Shangri-la of the Seas; an exclusive specially designed ship that promises to take its’ invalid passengers to the ends of the earth and experience life to its fullest to the very last minute and beyond. Suspecting the Shangri La cruise lines is a scam the family enlists one of its members to find out what it truly going on.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Finale
May 19, 2014
After ten years in a paranormal reality TV show, as the debunking half of a popular ghost hunting duo, Sage finds herself on the flip side of her own arguments during the live broadcast of the shows’ season finale, and quite possibly the last show ever.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Return of Doctor Plastic
Apr 12, 2014
An alter ego is another self, a distinct second identity that can allow a person to lead a double life. Jane a meek java developer by day is a crime fighting superhero by night, etcetera. But is it truly that simple? Can you just slip from one personality to another by finding the closest phone booth to make a quick costume change?
In this month’s story a man who is woken by his dog in the middle of the night can’t get back to sleep and finds himself reminiscing about the last conversation he had with his old friend Rob a would be graphic novelist who invented the super villain Doctor Plastic.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
The Last Days of Darkness
Mar 18, 2014
Ajit, a fourth generation resident of the arcology GBT Ellesmere, is tasked with the job of clearing out old documents and by accident stumbles upon some disturbing information that is not found in the official digital record. While the knowledge helps him make sense of his family’s situation the truth turns out to be something no one is ready to hear.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Canis Major
Feb 20, 2014
Loyalty, according to Wikipedia, is the “faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause.” In this month’s story loyalty comes in many flavours as an aging pack of genetically modified space faring canines embark on what could be their last mission.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Tourist Trap
Jan 17, 2014
There are many legends associated with certain famous objects and sites around the world. Loch Ness, the Pyramids, the Nazca Lines, the plain of Jars or Stonehenge, which various groups have thought to be everything from a pagan solstice monument to a UFO landing site, all have mysteries to be revealed and believers who are convinced that their particular theory is the correct one.
In this month’s story a boy befriends an aging street person who is the self-appointed guardian an odd public sculpture. No one believes the old woman’s claims about the true origin of the monument, and she is eventually forced to ignore her own warnings to protect her new young friend.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
A Perfect Life
Dec 15, 2013
Arthur C. Clark’s famous third law of prediction states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But is understanding how something works any more important than the ultimate outcome it produces? Does it really matter if it is a mechanism that controls unknown forces or a magician’s incantation as long as it benefits us?
In this month’s story two people separated by a generation are connected and helped by a mysterious force that is driven by ancient and forgotten motivations.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Forty-five Minutes
Nov 18, 2013
Choices, we all have choices in our lives which are not always easy to make. We are never able to predict how they will turn out. Does our fear of the unknowable doom us to a paradigm where we end up making the same choice again hoping for a different outcome but finding ourselves back where we started?
In this month’s story circumstances determine the historic events, but a choice must be made between forever reliving what has already happened or moving on into an unknown the future.
Program Notes And Credits
Opening and closing music by David Hume
Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare
Feature image: Cloud Tops of Venus, Copyright ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Driven
Oct 16, 2013
A retired software quality control engineer is pressed back into service by the agency that pays his for his room and board to help recover the money that agency the spends on him. He quickly discovers that he has been thrust into an unusual situation, which forces him to make a difficult choice.
Program Notes And Credits Narrated by Mitchell Tew Opening and closing music by David H. Written by Alan V Hare
The Last Big Idea
Sep 19, 2013
Laura Mackenzie, an energetic late nineteenth century entrepreneur, struggles to introduce a new technology that will shape the next century and realize her dreams. Caught the politics of the day she must a radical choice.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume.
The Prediction
Aug 15, 2013
Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of a prediction that, if correct will become the opportunity to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event, and if wrong could spell disaster for the world.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew
Finder
Jul 18, 2013
On a world only 20 lights from earth a colony of humans have mostly learned to live with the Aliens who arrived on the planet at the same time. But over the course of generations friction has begun to emerge and for Narvon a series of recent accidents are a dark sign.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew
Lifeline
Jun 17, 2013
While investigating an anomaly in the size of the information packets being sent from a commercial project on Mars, Yara an engineer, discovers a hidden signal which turns out to be something unexpected, that forces her into a choice she does not want to make.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew
The Wondering City
Apr 15, 2013
Two recent immigrants to a new colony world find it unexpectedly difficult to make ends meet until one of them wins a trip for two to seven exotic worlds. While on the trip they meet an alien who challenges their understanding of history and gives them a special opportunity.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Low Resolution
Mar 17, 2013
Finola, an unemployed librarian, lands a job with a research institute investigating unexplained phenomena. Unlike her new colleagues she is sceptical about the existence of the supernatural, UFOs, aliens, and parallel realities. Through an odd twist of fate she finds herself rethinking her belief in the physically of world around her.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Special Delivery
Feb 11, 2013
Sal through, no fault of his own, has been reduced to house sitting for a living. He moves from house to house hiding from his past from his past until one day he receives a mysterious special delivery that appears to present him with undreamed of possibilities. But he is not sure if the package was meant for him or a neighbour or if it is a complex scheme to from someone in his past seeking revenge.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Runaway
Jan 17, 2013
Alana, a gamer from the poor side of town, has worked her way into an elite online guild, which only admits players from wealthy neighbourhoods. When she is accidently discovered and her membership and livelihood are both threatened help comes from a mysterious new friend.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
2012 The End of My World
Dec 14, 2012
While on a school field trip to a nuclear research station, in the late 1960’s, Allen is overwhelmed with a sense of déjà vu, and can’t break away from the feeling that he is trapped in a loop of time between 1968 and 2012.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Volunteer
Nov 15, 2012
After graduating college Eveta is unexpectedly called up as a volunteer for community service. She is required to take on the personality of another person and temporarily live among the interred on a distant isolated island. Once there she finds herself stuck between the necessity to keep a monumental secret and the mistake of her predecessor.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Gap
Oct 13, 2012
A trip to the coast in search of work ends up at a remote struggling hotel. Built by the passion and obsession of its owner, the hotel may hold a secret worth returning for fifty years later.
The problem is that the hotel has burnt down and the fate of it’s owner is unknown.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Last Mod
Sep 15, 2012
Frillo was orphaned at an early age and grew up on the streets of the economic zone. Taken in by an older modder he quickly learned the trade and by 15 was at the pinnacle of the illicit field.
Despite the warnings of his mentor Frillo takes on a high profile job that turns out to be his last.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Blackout
Aug 14, 2012
While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play a very important game of chance.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Tribute
Jul 14, 2012
Sometimes the way the world is and the systems we toil under, indifferent to our day to day struggles, seem just a little unfair. And no matter how hard we try our ability to change them feels remote at best.
In this month’s story, set in an alternate reality, a young farm worker decides to change the agreement with the ancient absent rulers that his village has struggled under for centuries .
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Awakening (part 2)
Jun 12, 2012
We assume we know what has happened in the past through archaeological research, museums, archives, and historical texts. What if we have missed something so fundamental that it would change our understanding of the world?
In part two of “The Awakening” Maya discovers that humanity was never alone.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Awakening (part 1)
May 14, 2012
Through archaeological research, museums, archives and historical texts, we assume we know what has happened in the past. What if we have missed something so fundamental that it would change our understanding of the world?
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Jet Pack
Apr 15, 2012
Adam receives a rather odd package in the mail and when he checks the postmark realizes that it has taken more than half a century for the thing to be delivered to, whom he believes to be, the wrong A. Bruckner. Curiosity finally overcomes Adam and he unwraps the box finding a mysteriously object that transports him into a nostalgic past vision of the future.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Escape Velocity
Mar 11, 2012
Zebb and Estrella, two young teens from an industrial moon orbiting the second planet in the Barnard’s Star system, accidentally end up together in the same escape pod. On the surface they are from settlements with apposing political systems, but soon discover that they are more a-like than different. Unfortunately their unplanned meeting puts them both in jeopardy.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Quantum Turbulence
Feb 12, 2012
During a future world oil shortage a scientist, researching an old idea about the potential energy contained in a vacuum (zero point energy), discovers a cheap simple method of extracting almost limitless power from literally nothing. Realizing how important his discovery is the scientist decides to file a patent application before he publishes his research. On his way to file the patent the scientist is approached by an odd stranger who seems intent on stopping the release of the new technology.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The In-between
Jan 13, 2012
Catina, the director of online marketing, for an important advertising agency comes up with a revolutionary idea, but forgets what it is before she can write her idea down. Desperate to remember it, she consults numerous experts in various fields, without success. When she is ready to give up, a mysterious consultant approaches her, claiming that he can help her recover the idea. Before she considers the implications of his offer Catina finds herself transported.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Crevasse III – Revenge
Dec 12, 2011
Marco had been top ranked in player verses player one on one in the MMO Crevasse for over a year until a nobody with GM like powers poned him. Everett, the lead designer of Crevasse, lost his job over the negative reaction to his updates in Crevasse II. Mad at the studio that creates the game, Everett leaves an Easter egg in the code for the next release that has some unexpected results during a PVP match between Marco and the player who defeated him.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
Time Shift
Nov 12, 2011
In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Caretaker of Destiny
Oct 10, 2011
An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.
The Top of the Sky
Sep 17, 2011
During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun.
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Hale Bopp
Aug 12, 2011
In an attempt to regain its reputation as a leader in space research and exploration, the ancient Institute of Solar Studies in Babylon puts all its resources into a mission to the newly discovered comet Hale Bopp to study the object’s unusual behaviour.
The mission is a success but the outcome is not what Fath Shah, the institute’s director, had planned on.
Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.
A Crime in 3d
Jul 14, 2011
In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella “Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.” The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott’s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote “The Theory of General Relativity” which discussed the possibility of a fourth dimension. Since then several films and animations have been made based on Abbott’s novella.
This month’s story revisits Abbott’s flat universe from the point of view of a down and out private detective in search of his first big case.
Ghost in the Machine
Jun 14, 2011
History is littered with discarded technologies and obsolete skills. In the last few decades whole industries have been swept away by ever moving waves of change, and it seems unavoidable that today’s high tech is destined to become tomorrow’s landfill or does it?
In our story this month new meets old, makes friends and finds something valuable in the obsolescence of the recent past.
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This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of the project of century when her implanted communications chip starts to malfunction affecting her perception of reality.
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This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made: We should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited.
The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect Aliens. The scientists eventually succeed but not through the actions they had intended to use.
Skin Deep
Mar 13, 2011
After narrowly evading capture, Maya and Tim arrive in New Hudson and run into the man who had been following them in Waystation. The man claims he works with Maya’s parents, but neither Tim nor Maya trusts him. As the man drives them to Hudson Beach, in theory, to meet Maya’s parents, Maya receives a text message warning them to be careful and advising her and Tim to try and escape.
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Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar, are his mother’s best chance for recovery.
Alonzo believes that the treatment is a hoax and sets out to prove it, but accidentally finds out the algae can do a lot more than heal ill people.
Dreams of a Life
Jan 11, 2011
Aura lives with her mother and brothers, making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process, Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends.
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After discovering more incriminating evidence against them planted on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents appear. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents, they take the train to New Hudson Beach. Along the way, they are helped by the odd bag lady’s secret organization, but neither Tim nor Maya knows who, other than the authorities, is chasing them or why they have been framed as criminals.
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With the first Moon landings in the late 1960s, many may have felt that a Mars mission was not too far off, but since then, no human has left near Earth orbit.
On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing, an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem.
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Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, kids over eight must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college.
When two mysterious customers from Europa Café show up in the lobby of the building that hides Anneita’s secret archive, she forces Tim and Maya to leave. While on their way back to the café, Maya feels that they are being followed. When they arrive at the Europa, they find it closed and Maya’s mother missing.
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An astronomer watching for near-earth objects makes a shocking discovery that forces Adrian out of hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have led to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned.
This episode revisits the original series from year one.
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An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11, one of the landing group’s communication nodes, attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest.
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Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns, management insists on a last-minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that the change does more than they had intended.
The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe might be similar to a holographic projection. We have been discussing recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned.
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Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, and kids over eight must work for a living, but reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college.
After receiving an unexpected message warning him to check the server logs at the café, Tim and Maya go to meet the mysterious sender, who initially appears to be a bag lady but is, in fact, from an old, eccentric, wealthy Way Station family. She takes Tim and Maya to the disused top floor of the Ashton Towers, where she reveals her involvement in a hundred-year-old society trying to understand the actions of an elusive and dangerous group that has been changing history.
Tim’s gopher server project has inadvertently brought him, Maya, and the café under the scrutiny of this organization, and the Europa café’s future may be threatened as a result.
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An imminent invasion derails a 500-year-old terraforming project. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the threat’s true nature and its implications for the future of their civilization.
This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry than our own.
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After being sucked into a wormhole created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in the lost laundry, the local inhabitants, who are ungulate-like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pleas to stop the downpour of unwanted hoof warmers. Opick, the herd leader, is convinced that Luke could not possibly be the sky alpha they have been waiting for, and he holds him captive. Len, Zara, and ADA are then forced to improvise ways to negotiate a solution.
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Perspectives & the Mission
May 17, 2010
This month, we present two short stories. In the first one, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in deep space. This story evolved out of one of David’s writing assignments at school.
In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th anniversary.
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A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm, two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should, which spooks Maya. After hearing about them, Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings and is spooked by an unexpected message.
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A passing celestial being is trapped by Earth’s gravity and reluctantly dragged to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog, the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission, which carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957.
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Hole in Space
Mar 30, 2010
Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a series of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects, causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space.
As they start repairs, Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world.
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The Shimmering Field
Mar 05, 2010
Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations to pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences.
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Europa Cafe
Feb 23, 2010
Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station, a place in the past where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation, and adults don’t seem to remember what really happened in the past.
One night, Tim discovers someone has been breaking into one of his personal online projects. Thus begins an adventure that takes them both into a hidden world of intrigue.
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Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream, Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions.
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Hyper Nova
Jan 24, 2010
Luki is given his first true command of a starship and immediately plunged into a major mission. With the help of his less-than-loyal crew, he completes the assignment but inadvertently creates a new potential problem.
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Mirror Image
Dec 13, 2009
Sareen is mysteriously transported back in time to a version of her home world that is not entirely correct. The planet is ruled by a group that she has never heard of, so Sareen sets out to figure out what is going on.
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Opening theme excerpt from the Song of the Hebrides performed by David Hume
Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
Voluntold
Nov 13, 2009
During what turns out to be an extremely slow side trip to the home planet of two rogue space probes, Ada receives a coded message that orders them to stop what they are doing and launch a rescue mission to pick up an important executive officer. Reluctantly, Luki and Len set out in a shuttle to pick up their mysterious passenger.
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The Endgame
Oct 18, 2009
When an unexpected message from deep space turns out to be a Triffal ship, Amos must change his plans and as a result he finds himself with less than a day to locate his missing artificial intelligence, wrap up his work and be extracted by the rescue team. Amos looks for Raymore to help him with his new plans. Still, he finds that mysteriously Raymore has entered the simulated world where he has trapped the renegade artificial intelligence.
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Opening theme excerpt from the Song of the Hebrides performed by David Hume
Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
A Turn of Events
Sep 20, 2009
Imprisoned in a GEAA simulation, Tim, Maya, and Adrian become the focal points of two competing forces. Raymore finds the artificial intelligence and starts to use it to reveal the encryption keys to Amos’ secret research; however, he is distracted by an unexpected event.
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Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
A.I. Dreams
Aug 16, 2009
AI Dreams is the third installment in a series of bedtime classics adapted to the Makeshift Stories universe. In this episode, loosely based on the popular folktale of the Gingerbread Boy, Amos creates an artificial intelligence that escapes, taking his secret research with it. Distraught, Amos enlists Raymore to help him, but Raymore has other plans.
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Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
The Four Keys Pt.3
Aug 03, 2009
After his odd encounter with Annie, William starts pressing Tim for the information she gave him, but Tim is left wondering who to trust. Then unexpected events—which Tim suspects are not random—force him to make a decision that he feels he may regret. As a result, his of choice, Tim, inadvertently takes Adrian, Maya, Padget, and William to the heart of the machine world.
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The Other Story – Space Junk
Jul 15, 2009
After being picked up by an automated rescue ship, Luki, Zara, and Fritz start to settle into a routine when an unexpected crew member is discovered. An accident then sets the small group off in a new direction.
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Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat.
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The Four Keys Pt.2
Jun 30, 2009
After an arrow shoots Adrian, Tim uses his new-found power to save him. As Adrian revives, William insists that they all come with him to his ship before the main Elfin raiding party arrives. The small group then scrambles through the back alleys of Claring, trying to reach the riverfront before the invaders. Narrowly escaping as the Elfin soldiers pour onto the river, they set sail to find the first key. Once underway, Tim decides to tell Maya and Adrian about his revelation.
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Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
The Other Story – Luki
Jun 08, 2009
Luki -The Other Story is the first episode of an alternate storyline. At the end of episode 11, as the Sodality are about to leave Ceres, three of their members accidentally discover an alternate means of escape. The trio is, in turn, rescued by an officious artificial intelligence.
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Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.
Pre-opening theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
Echoes
May 26, 2009
After many nights of exchanging stories, Sareen tries to explain to Effie why the Sodality ended up exiled on Ceres. The answer is not something that Effie easily accepts, and it changes her feelings toward Sareen and the Allusions. Meanwhile, a Sodality exploration team finds an abandoned project that holds the possibility of an escape from the tiny ice world.
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Ending theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
The Four Keys – Pt.1
Apr 27, 2009
Maya, Adrian, and Tim arrive in a new world that Tim feels is vaguely familiar. Before they figure out where they are or how they got there, they are mistaken for fleeing labourers and chased by a disagreeable lord. A member of the Merchant Guild intervenes and helps them escape, only to deliver them back into harm’s way.
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Ending theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
Orph The Emerald Planet
Mar 26, 2009
Orph The Emerald Planet is the second installment in a series of bedtime classics adapted to the Makeshift Stories universe. Based on the 1907 story by Laura E Richards, The House with the Golden Windows, from a book of short stories with the same name, it presents the archetypal irony that grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.
Sareen tells her apprentice Fox a legend about the origins of the Sodality that she heard from Effie while Marooned on Ceres.
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All background audio textures and sound effects were made in Acid Music Studio or Garage Band except as noted below.
Ending theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=215874)
GEAA
Feb 25, 2009
After being caught in the Europa Café, Tim, Maya, and Adrian are flown to G.E.A.A. head office. They are told that those who see the mysterious leaders of G.E.A.A. are not allowed to leave. Facing their fears, the three meet the senior G.E.A.A executive officer and find out who is behind the organization that should not exist in Tim and Adrian’s world.
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By hammerklavier (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=430462) G2. Estonian Bells-Octave Lower.aif (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=43920)
0ff Course
Jan 24, 2009
After escaping from Ceres, Tim and Adrian arrive home to a foreign world where they never existed. Tim has trouble accepting the situation, but they learn how to survive there. When they set out on a quest to discover what went wrong, they run afoul of the local authorities.
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By man (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=14447) soldati-marcia.aif
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Solstice
Dec 06, 2008
Adrian finds a way to travel to Ceres and bring Tim home, but Sareen discovers what Adrian is up to and convinces Effie and the Sodality to intervene. When Sareen confronts Adrian, he is forced to make a quick decision with uncertain results.
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The Sodality
Nov 10, 2008
Margot’s unexpected return to Ceres creates an opportunity for Amos and Tim to make a highly risky escape. After regaining her memory, Margot (A.K.A. Sareen) intends to go after Tim so she can send him home, but Effie informs Sareen that Amos and Tim’s chance of surviving their trek is next to nil, and if Effie is right, Margot will never be able to leave Ceres.
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All Hallows Eve
Oct 21, 2008
Sareen’s plans, made over several generations, come together on “All Hallows Eve” to bring the target of her 1000-year quest to her doorstep. Adrian, who has been hiding for centuries, fails to see the trap being laid and inadvertently allows himself to be discovered, but no one wins, and the game of cat and mouse continues.
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By man (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=14447) soldati-marcia.aif
The Escape
Sep 27, 2008
As Tim, the newly arrived giant repairs the damage he caused his captor, Amos explains the history of the Triffals on Ceres. However, both are captured by Amos’ enemies. An unexpected event provides an opportunity for a risky escape.
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The Arrival
Sep 21, 2008
Tim, a giant by local standards, finds himself in the small icy world of Ceres without any memory of how he got there and who he is. He has literally dropped into the middle of a conflict and is taken in by one side. Having inadvertently destroyed some of his host’s property, Tim agrees to repair it in exchange for a place to sleep.
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