Some stories begin with love. Some begin with loss. And some begin the moment everything falls apart.
Scarlett After Dark is a podcast about desire, secrets, obsession, and the lives we live in the dark.
Season One: The Unraveling follows one woman’s raw, unfiltered descent through a marriage coming undone, forbidden longing, heartbreak, reinvention, and the truth waiting beneath it all.
Every episode reveals a new chapter. Every season tells a new story.
Because this show isn’t just mine. It's yours too.
Got a story that lives in the dark? We want to hear it.
She had a plane ticket, no money, no job, no home. And the absolute unshakeable certainty that she belonged in New York City.
Episode 15 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 28 and 29 of The Unraveling — the final chapter. The painting sold to pay bills a judge had ordered someone else to pay. Her mother's jewelry, gone. Everything accumulated, everything chosen, everything given with love — systematically dismantled until what remained was just the person holding none of it.
And she was still here. Intact. Loudly, inconveniently, stubbornly intact.
David woke something in her she had let go cold. He didn't do it kindly. He did it the way fire does things — without asking permission, without staying to see what grows in the ash. He was the catalyst. The revelation. The most specific, maddening, infuriating person she has ever been unable to say no to.
But the unraveling is over. At least this phase.
Now she rebuilds. 🖤
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31 Aug 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 14 - Chapters 27
She packed her bags. And flew to Wyoming with nothing but time and the particular silence of a state that doesn't care about your problems.
Episode 14 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapter 27 of The Unraveling — the stillness after the storm. Wyoming in winter. Long walks going nowhere. The court date that resolved nothing. And David, still there, still rent-free, still the first thing she thought about in the dark.
She wasn't healed. She wasn't over it. But something had hardened in her — not cruelly. In a survival way. New York was waiting. She had built herself once from nothing. She knew how to do it again. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
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24 Aug 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 13 - Chapter 26
California was supposed to be a fresh start. It wasn't.
Episode 13 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapter 26 of The Unraveling — the mistake she saw coming and made anyway. A friend's couch. An untrained dog and five weeks of paper towels and no windows. A job that was never going to happen. And Heather, who chose a man she'd never met over a friend who needed her.
Then came Karen. The cigarette. The couch at midnight. The moment she finally said: go fuck yourself.
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
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17 Aug 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 12 - Chapters 25 & 25
She spent her fifty-seventh birthday alone in a stranger's house that smelled like cat pee.
This is what the bottom looks like.
Episode 12 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 24 and 25 of The Unraveling — rock bottom, in the quietest, most undramatic way. No explosion. Just the slow, specific inventory of everything lost. The jewelry sold. The painting that hung in her firstborn's nursery, gone. Her father's voice coming back when she could least afford to hear it.
And then: New York. Dreaded, necessary, inevitable.
She had built things before. She would have to build again. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
Follow us on Instagram @scarlettafterdarkofficial (Link in bio).
10 Aug 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 11 - Chapters 22 & 23
Her mother died. Her marriage was over. Her daughter wasn't speaking to her. She got in the car and drove.
Episode 11 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 22 and 23 of The Unraveling — the year everything came apart at once. Grief that arrived without warning and stayed without permission. A Christmas that should have been ordinary and wasn't. A dog she never wanted and loved anyway, gone too soon.
And then: North Carolina. A road, an audiobook, and the first quiet she'd felt in months.
Some losses don't announce themselves. They just accumulate until you have no choice but to move. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
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3 Aug 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 10 - Chps 20-21
They went on one last family vacation. Nobody said it was the last. They didn't have to.
Episode 10 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 20 and 21 of The Unraveling — the family still technically intact, everyone playing their roles. A beach. Kids laughing in the water. And a woman sitting at the edge of it all, knowing exactly what she was about to do and doing it anyway.
Then home. A daughter who became a stranger. A bedroom door with a lock. A knife on the nightstand.
That's where they had gotten. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
Follow us on Instagram @scarlettafterdarkofficial (Link in bio).
27 Jul 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 9 - Chps 18-19
The goodbye email was supposed to free her. She sent it hoping that would be the thing that finally did it.
It wasn't. It never is with him.
Episode 9 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 18 and 19 of The Unraveling — the aftermath of the goodbye. The silence that followed. A body still awake and a heart that hadn't gotten the memo. She hadn't been chosen. She wasn't enough. Or she was too much. Either way, the result was the same.
This is what it looks like when you do everything right and still can't get free. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
Follow us on Instagram @scarlettafterdarkofficial (Link in bio).
20 Jul 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 8 - Chps 16-17
She put him out to sea. Let him go. Felt something close to peace for the first time in years.
Too bad it didn't stick.
Episode 8 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 16 and 17 of The Unraveling — the Florida Keys, the quiet, and the fall back in. And then: the confrontation. Five years of things she never said, finally said. A 90-minute phone call. A video. The goodbye email she wrote and almost meant.
He wasn't going to disappear on her again before she finished.🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
Follow us on Instagram @scarlettafterdarkofficial (Link in bio).
13 Jul 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 7 - Chps 14-15
They sexted everywhere. The bath. The bedroom with James down the hall. In his bathroom at dinner with his kids. Neither of them knew how to stop.
Episode 7 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 14 and 15 of The Unraveling — the avalanche. Every boundary dissolved. Every line crossed. And then, without warning: a "Congrats" text. He was back with his wife. Just like that.
She scrolled in the dark. Consulted an astrologer. Waited for a sign that never came clearly enough.
He still lived rent-free in her head. Fully furnished. No signs of vacating. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
Follow us on Instagram @scarlettafterdarkofficial (Link in bio).
6 Jul 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 6 - Chps 12-13
Nine months of nothing. Then a small waving hand emoji lit up her phone. She nearly ran off the road.
Episode 6 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 12 and 13 of The Unraveling — the silence finally broken. David Rose, back from the dead, like he never left. A SoHo hotel. A key card. The moment she knew she should say no and didn't.
Some people you're supposed to be done with. And then they text. 🖤
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
29 Jun 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 5 - Chps 10-11
That summer she was the most desirable she'd ever been in her life. And the one man she wanted was nowhere near her.
Episode 5 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 10 and 11 of The Unraveling — a San Francisco summer spent waiting for a man who wasn't coming. The separation in full swing. The house half-empty. A body fully awake and absolutely no one to do anything about it.
James got the body. David got everything else.
This is what longing looks like when it has nowhere to go.
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
22 Jun 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 4 - Chps 8-9
He was aloof. Hot and cold. Impossible to reach. Disappearing without warning and reappearing like nothing had happened.
Her father. The original wound. And the blueprint for every man she'd let keep her waiting ever since.
Episode 4 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 8 and 9 of The Unraveling — the chapter where she finally names it. And then: solitude. The marriage legally separating, the house going quiet, and desire filling every room her husband vacated.
This is where the obsession stops being about David and starts being about something much older.
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
15 Jun 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 3 - Chps 6-7
She came home from San Francisco and did the thing she should have done years earlier.
She asked for a divorce.
Episode 3 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 6 and 7 of The Unraveling — the moment the marriage becomes official wreckage. The therapist who saw it in two sessions. The thing she finally said out loud across a room she could no longer share. And James, falling apart in the only way he knew how — by running.
This is what the end looks like before it looks like an ending. Not a door slamming. Just two people finally stopping the pretense.
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
8 Jun 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 2 - Chapter 4 & 5
He slept with me in the morning. Accepted the coffee. And by afternoon sent a text saying he was having "a bit of a moral hangover."
Episode 2 of Scarlett After Dark covers Chapters 4 and 5 of The Unraveling — the red flags she saw and ignored anyway. The second trip to San Francisco. Drawing on his back in the dark. An anxious Christmas at home, pretending everything was fine while her phone stayed face down on the counter.
This is what the beginning of obsession looks like. Not dramatic. Not obvious. Just a man who knew exactly how much to give — and exactly when to pull back.
Scarlett After Dark is a serialized autofiction podcast. New episodes every Monday.
5 Jun 2026
The Unraveling - Eps. 1 - Preface + Chapters 1-3
Some stories begin with love. Some begin with loss. And some begin the moment everything falls apart.
Scarlett After Dark is a podcast about desire, secrets, obsession, and the lives we live in the dark.
Season One: The Unraveling follows one woman’s raw, unfiltered descent through a marriage coming undone, forbidden longing, heartbreak, reinvention, and the truth waiting beneath it all.
Every episode reveals a new chapter.
Every season tells a new story.
Episode 1: The Unraveling Begins
Preface + Chapters 1-3. The night that started everything. A dinner, a rooftop, a man she couldn't walk away from. Scarlett Stone introduces herself — and the story she's been carrying for six years.
Because this show isn’t just mine. It's yours too. Got a story that lives in the dark? We want to hear it.
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