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The Burnt Planet by William Brittain
A crew of weary explorers finally finds the world they’ve been searching for through years of interstellar decline — lush, fertile, and seemingly abandoned, except for a handful of ragged, violent survivors hiding in the ruins of a bombed-out city. As the scholar aboard finally deciphers what’s left of the… Listen ⇢
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The Trial of Harvey Wiggles by Lyle Talbot
After accidentally running over a groundhog on a sunny drive home, Jerry Humphreys assumes the whole thing is forgotten — until a tiny, fedora-wearing detective shows up at his office with questions, and Jerry finds himself hauled before a groundhog court to answer for his “crime.” Listen ⇢
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Signal Loss & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Eight: Hong Kong
“Signal Loss,” sends journalist Hannah Bennett to a tiny West Virginia town where a strange radio interference has been disrupting life for weeks. She soon finds herself with a story she can’t prove and an experience she can’t explain. It’s a quiet, unsettling look at how far a reporter will… Listen ⇢
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The Invader by Alfred Coppel
A lone alien scientist slips down to Earth on a scouting mission, hoping to prove that this planet is the answer to his dying race’s prayers. Everything goes smoothly until his first steps out among the locals, when things start going very wrong in ways he can’t begin to understand.… Listen ⇢
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Love by Aurea Fenn
A casual date at a neon-lit arcade takes a turn when Olivia wants to try a fortune-telling android, and her skeptical boyfriend Danny can’t resist explaining exactly why it’s a scam. Aurea Fenn delivers a witty, bittersweet short about cynicism, missed connection, and what happens when a machine says the… Listen ⇢
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The Winner & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Eight: Hong Kong
The Winner,” follows an ordinary man named Dennis who improbably wins a full-ownership condo aboard Atlas through a contest — only to find small, impossible details waiting for him in his new home that make the win feel a lot less like luck. Listen ⇢
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Zeritsky’s Law By Ann Griffith
When a Los Angeles housewife’s cat accidentally freezes solid in her deep-freeze and thaws out completely unharmed, it sparks a bizarre new industry: quick-freezing human beings, for a fee, until they’re ready to be defrosted Listen ⇢
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Hail Nedovra by Samantha E Pierce
Inspector Ivan Yegorov spends his days at a border checkpoint stamping papers APPROVED or DENIED with quiet, methodical pride — a devoted bureaucrat serving his nation. But as the day unfolds, we learn the horrifying human cost hiding underneath his routine Listen ⇢
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Breaker’s Yard & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Seven: The Team
During a routine compliance job aboard a decommissioned Navy ship being torn apart for scrap. What Marcus Webb encounters alone in her stripped, powerless corridors is impossible to explain, and impossible to shake. It’s another quiet thread of the unexplained, and our first real look at the man who’s about… Listen ⇢
