Novella Noir — where short-form fiction casts long shadows. Original, gritty audio dramas inspired by classic noir. In these stories, morality blurs, justice is crooked, and no one walks away clean. If you’re drawn to doomed souls, dark cities, and tragic choices, you’re in the right place. These are tales where the only truth is the one you can’t escape.
Novella Noir | Night Correspondent | Noir Audio Drama
ESPIONAGE NOIR
Brussels, 1974. Frank Cahill is a veteran foreign correspondent running a dying wire bureau on borrowed time and cheaper Scotch. When a manila envelope lands on his desk containing photographs of a man who has been dead for five years, he senses something he hasn't felt in years — a story worth chasing.
What follows pulls him deep into the hidden architecture of postwar Europe: false identities, buried ratline networks, and a truth too dangerous for any editor to touch.
But the most damaging revelation isn't what Cahill uncovers about the past. It's what he discovers about himself.
1 May 2026
Novella Noir | Night Shift | Noir Audio Drama
INDUSTRIAL NOIR
The press never stopped at Harlow Metalworks. Neither did the coughing.
Vic Crane has supervised the night shift for eleven years — long enough to know when to look away, long enough that looking away has become its own kind of expertise. When a man goes into the die cavity at 2:16 AM, it's a tragedy. It happens. Metal and men have always had an understanding.
But a dead man had something to say that morning, and Vic told him to come back tomorrow.
Now someone is rewriting what tomorrow looks like — and Vic's own lungs are keeping score.
1 May 2026
Novella Noir | Overnight Rate | Noir Audio Drama
PROCEDURAL NOIR
Mara Voss counts other people's money in the dark. Eight years on the overnight shift at a dying savings bank, running reconciliations nobody reads, flagging variances nobody acts on — invisible by design, invisible by habit.
Then one sleepless November morning, chasing a forty-seven dollar discrepancy, she opens a file partition she was never meant to find. What's inside won't just cost her the job. The city has been conducting business in the margins of her careful, quiet work for years, and now it knows she knows. She has one move. One morning. And nowhere near enough locks on her door.
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