Episodes

  • Left: Episode #2

    Left: Episode #2
    Sep 27 2023
    Left - Episode 2 Shane gasped; jolting forward in her chair as nature flung its wrath against the canvas that sheltered her and the other nine contestants. She turned and glared at the pathetic ‘housing’. A week and five days the ten contestants, the show’s executive and co-producer and medical team had been cooped up in this hodgepodge of hovels. The vital readings, gear checks, and all the other procedures were long since completed and should have already embarked, but the producers of the show claimed the suits of the network were causing the beratement of departure delays. Now Shane and the rest were teetering upon week two. Shane placed her a hand on the flapping wall to steady its pestering. The cold seeped through the weathered canvas nipping her at the touch. Shane stood up and stretched. “I’m ready to get out of here.” She caught a glimpse of an aggressive river beyond a waving brush as the wicked wind pried it’s way inside. The mere sight added to the cold. Shane crossed her arms and shivered. “You hear that, Eve?” Shane turned to see a man, Elliot, sitting across from her; talking to his camcorder as if it were a person. He had done this before and quite often. Elliot was odd but that did not stop Shane from enjoying several conversations she’d had with him over the course of this ordeal. Regardless of his oddity, Shane liked Elliot. Additionally, he was cute; in his own way. Elliot tickled the bottom side of the camera lens. “Looks like her wits have frozen.” “Oh?” Shane replied as she sat back down. She shot Elliot a glare, then almost immediately burst into an inquisitive smile. “You’re not ready to get out of here and start this thing? We’ve been crammed in hell for days, and now…with no real answer as to when this show will actually get going. No pun intended…” Elliot turned his camera off and sat it to rest on his lap. He crossed his arms and leaned his back against the wall. Immediately, Elliot thought better and leaned forward again, but this time he hunched over himself and the camera; rocking back and forth. “No where near’s cold in here as it is out there. I’m not in no hurry. Might welcome an ember of Hell’s warmth before too long.” “I just…I want to get this over with.” Shane sighed. “Eager to suffer?” “Something like that…” “Like I said, Eve…” Elliot looked into his lap and rattled the camera. “…wits is frozen.” “No, Elliot…” “At least here we aren’t as miserable as we are going to be out there. I’d enjoy this small comfort while it lasts.” “Elliot, I’m just…you know…in a hurry.” “No matter how much you will your pace, you won’t persuade the stubbornness of time.” “Well… I guess I should hope that time remain stubborn…” “Attention contestants,” A voice blared from each contestant’s radio. All ten looked at each other then each adjusted their comms device to a more desirable decibel for being in such a cramped confinement. “Circumstances holding off departure have been….” The comms made a cutoff noise. A moment later the voice returned; disrupting the suspenseful silence. “Alright…Yeah! Looks like matters are clearing up…more official directives seem to be coming in and we should be able to get you all out of here and where you need to be soon. Remember your assigned randomized number. When your’s is called proceed to the departure team. They’re the ones who will be dressed in yellow. Probably be…”—The comm clicked off and almost immediately clicked back on. “…Give us a minute.” The comm clicked off. “Why in such a hurry to get back?” Elliot asked, continuing the conversation as if they had not been interrupted. Elliot leaned forward. “Oh…” He placed both of his hands onto Shane’s left hand that she had resting on her knee. “Because of your sister?” Shane nodded. Aside from Elliot being attractive, Shane’s sister was the reason Shane was drawn to Elliot in the first place. Shane’s sister and Elliot, shared the same name so it was an easy ice-breaker. Coincidentally this man—Elliot—replaced the vacant spot in the competition Elliot—Shane’s sister—had vacated after learning of her diagnoses. Elliot had convinced…more-so pushed Shane to continue without her. ‘The show must go on’ her sister had said; an uncomfortable motivation attempt. Reluctantly, Shane acquiesced but had not told anyone else in the competition—other than when Shane had been initially interviewed by the film crew—those sappy details of her story, nor did she divulge to her new friend, Elliot, that he had replaced her sister, specifically. Elliot projected empathy with a tisk and tapped on his camera. Shane shifted and looked elsewhere; nowhere in particular, just not at Elliot. Jude’s wandering eye met Shane’s and they each nodded to each other. Jude ...
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    20 mins
  • Left: Episode #1

    Left: Episode #1
    Sep 21 2022

    Ten contestants compete against each other, and the wild. Isolated and transported far from anywhere civilized at the chance for fortune. However, nature seeks to undermine.

    Each contestant is given a comms radio for extraction. Not knowing who has surrendered and who hasn’t, contestants simply have to survive until the extraction team withdraws them from the wild as victor and is taken back to civilization.

    “Left: Episode 1” introduces contestant Elliot.
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    19 mins
  • Project Eden - Episode #1

    Project Eden - Episode #1
    Sep 21 2022

    This sci-fi adventure story begins with Rayn and Vyne as they cling to a dream of asylum from an oppressive ruler.

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    8 mins
  • Private Stella

    Private Stella
    Jul 27 2022

    "Private Stella"

    This was an entry I submitted a while back for a Write Guys Podcast 'Writer's Challenge'.

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    2 mins
  • About this Podcast

    About this Podcast
    Jul 6 2022

    A brief introduction, expectation, and explanation of this podcast.
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    1 min