Tales From the Blue Line – The Midnight Janitor

The exhausted staff of a hospital’s chaotic night shift comes to depend on an unsettlingly silent, unscheduled janitor nicknamed “Saint Squeegee,” who materializes exactly when and where messes, accidents, and minor crises erupt, leading the nurses to believe he is either a guardian angel or a cleaning ghost.Read more

Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield

Exiled Martian dictator Marcius Kemble, maddened by defeat and banished to frozen Pluto, believes he has secured an escape ship from the mysterious native inhabitants, only to discover too late that his vengeful return to the inner solar system is foiled by a fatal design flaw: the ship is made of mercury and will melt under the heat of the sun.Read more

Tales From the Blue Line – The Phantom Channel

The late-night technician at an outdated TV station discovers a mysterious phantom channel that broadcasts a live, eerie feed of their town, only to realize the footage isn’t showing the present, but the immediate, inevitable future, with predictions that quickly turn from strange coincidence to terrifying catastrophe.Read more

The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson

Bored with the comforts of 25th-century civilization, a famous adventure novelist and his bride convince a drunken friend to use an experimental teleportation device, the Cosmic Express, to send them to the primitive, wild jungles of Venus, where their romanticized notions of “back to nature” are instantly and miserably crushed.Read more
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Darren Marlar

Professional voice artist, humorist, podcaster, story teller, radio personality, loving husband, ultra plus-sized male underwear model.

Keith Conrad

Podcaster, writer, Cubs fan, space geek, Beacon of restraint & self-sacrifice in a squall of car-crazies.