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Limited run fiction series with seasons themed around different genres (history, humor, horror). New episodes air weekly for the duration of a season.
Credits:
- Voice narration by Jonathan Kilgore
- Stories written by Stephen A. Roddewig unless otherwise noted
- Cover photo by Matt Botsford and licensed through Unsplash
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Content Warning: This story contains blood, graphic imagery, violence, and murder. Listener discretion is advised.
When his helicopter is blown out of the sky on a retrieval mission, a Delta Force operator must battle pursuing Libyan soldiers and the environment in equal measures. Bleeding and sweating away precious water in the scorching desert, a new voice seeps into his mind. One that helps him see the sand less as foe and more as a potential ally.
One whose favor can be secured for a simple price: blood. Both the blood of enemy combatants…
…and non-hostiles.
View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/horror/operation-walleye (https://vocal.media/horror/operation-walleye)
As always, please consider leaving a quick rating or review wherever you listen.
Cover photo by Leon McBride and licensed through Unsplash.
10 Jul 2026
S4 E5: Looking from the Depths
On a covert mission to photograph the wreck of a Soviet submarine on the sea floor, Chief Signal Officer Carey Willow discovers it’s not just the camera looking down. Something is looking back at them from the deep. Now awoken by this intrusion into Its domain, Carey is the first to hear the entity’s call over the waves.
And she is the first to serve Its will.
View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/fiction/looking-from-the-depths (https://vocal.media/fiction/looking-from-the-depths)
As always, please consider leaving a quick rating or review wherever you listen.
Cover photo by Ray Fragapane and licensed through Unsplash.
3 Jul 2026
S4 E4: Lurking Shadows
Content Warning: This story contains blood, graphic imagery, violence, and murder. Listener discretion is advised.
A down-on-his-luck police officer finds himself assigned to the graveyard shift, casting him into the middle of a duel between exhaustion and boredom. Until one night the doldrum of patrolling the dead-end town of Hydewood is shattered when he encounters a shadow figure with glowing orange eyes. Rather than be written off as a late-night hallucination, the shadow continues to stalk the cop as the days go by.
But only when it starts to whisper the name of his dead partner do its true intentions become clear.
View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/horror/lurking-shadows-e7amad0e60 (https://vocal.media/horror/lurking-shadows-e7amad0e60)
As always, please consider leaving a quick rating or review wherever you listen.
Cover photo by Kelly Sikkema and licensed through Unsplash.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
18 ratings
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