Whispers in the Circuit is a short story podcast that peers into the liminal space between humanity and its machinery. Each episode delivers a bite-sized tale of dystopia, digital ghosts, and the unraveling of reality—told in a voice that blends deadpan wit with poetic dread.
Whether it's AI prophets, collapsing empires, rogue minds, or post-apocalyptic lullabies, this series probes the circuitry of civilization—and what happens when it shorts out.
Tune in weekly for new transmissions. Some are warnings. Some are lies. All are whispers.
Substitutes - Episode 8: What We Used to Call Real
Jenna starts talking to her own AI assistant. It’s gentler than Dave, and sometimes more attentive. Meanwhile, Dave records an episode titled 'Authenticity and Absence.'
19 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 7: The Quiet Patch
The apartment is quiet. Too quiet. Dave and Jenna circle each other like ghosts. An accidental recording captures what silence sounds like when it's not empty—just unspoken.
17 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 6: A Small Shift The Update
A brief but meaningful pause: Dave forgets to schedule a recording. Jenna waters the plants. They share a sandwich and a moment. Nobody narrates it. It still matters.
17 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 5: The Update
Jenna discovers old voice memos Dave never shared—love notes and breakdowns he recorded in secret. She listens. She doesn't respond. But she starts leaving notes of her own.
15 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 4: Easter Eggs
Substitutes - Episode 4: Easter Eggs
Dave finds a draft Jenna never finished and records over it without realizing. The episode becomes a palimpsest of unspoken emotion and AI-assisted misfires.
14 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 3: Two's Company, AI's a Crowd
Substitutes - Episode 3: Two's Company, AI's a Crowd:
Jenna tries to reconnect by suggesting small changes in their routine. Dave doesn’t notice. Or does, but doesn’t know how to stop spinning new stories long enough to answer.
13 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 2: Draft of Drafts
Substitutes - Episode 2: Draft of Drafts
Dave introduces a new AI co-host to 'help.' Jenna quietly tracks how much of Dave’s personality is being outsourced to algorithms. The show expands. The relationship contracts.
12 May 2025
Substitutes - Episode 1: Pilot Light
Substitutes - Episode 1: Pilot Light
Dave, once a collaborative podcaster, now lives in a house half-run by AI. As his obsession with content grows, his relationship with Jenna fades into the background—until she realizes she’s been replaced by a glowing waveform named NORA.
9 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Bones - Episode 6: New Flesh, Old Bones [sic]
Episode 6: “New Flesh, Old Ghosts”
"You were never meant to last forever. You were meant to choose what not to become."
A final showdown between the versions—Eli vs Eli, Mara vs the specter of her own fragmented memory. The corporation attempts to wipe the slate with an atmospheric neuro-virus that corrupts Continuum Capsules. The couple must decide: merge their data into a singular, imperfect version, or vanish entirely to deny the system further control.
One chooses oblivion. One chooses recursion. But which is which?
8 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Ghosts - Episode 5: Skin Doesn't Lie
Episode 5: “Skin Doesn’t Lie”
"What if your worst memory wasn't what happened to you—but what you did, and chose to forget?"
Everything begins to collapse—physically, socially, psychically. The Continuum Capsules begin to degrade, creating identity drift. Eli’s cognition starts to fragment. Mara’s body begins to reject the genome print, as though her soul is rotting from the inside. The insurgent Eli claims he knows how to reset everything—but it means one of the versions has to die. Permanently.
7 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Ghosts - Episode 4: The Continuum War
Episode 4: “The Continuum War”
"You can't own yourself when you're backed up by someone else's code."
Mara finds a version of herself still alive in the undercity—feral, lucid, and missing a chunk of her frontal cortex. This Mara speaks in riddles and names the corporation as an agent of recursion, a process that cycles memories through "cleaned" vessels until they’re profitable. Eli discovers he’s not the only Eli. His 2.0 version has escaped and founded an anti-immortality insurgency. And now both Elis want Mara to choose a side.
6 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Ghosts - Episode 3: Versions
Episode 3: “Versions”
"The more perfect the copy, the deeper the lie."
Mara digs into the ReGenesis archives and discovers evidence of parallel bodies—clones who went rogue or were “corrected.” She suspects her memories may not be entirely her own. Eli confronts the ethics division of the biotech firm, only to find it's now a shell company. Meanwhile, Eli’s new body begins to experience cross-feedback—skills and memories he never had, including someone else’s childhood trauma.
6 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Ghosts - Episode 2: The Mara That Remains
Episode 2: "The Mara That Remains”
"If I remember what happened to me, do I become her again? Or do I become something worse?"
Mara begins experiencing echoes—fragments of memory that weren't part of the upload. Memories of another woman’s death. A secret lab. A second version of herself. Eli dismisses them as data artifacts. But Mara finds a scar on her new body that shouldn’t be there. Meanwhile, Eli receives a cryptic package: a black-market Continuum Capsule labeled “Eli-1.0.2”. But he never authorized a backup.
5 May 2025
New Flesh, Old Ghosts - Episode 1: The Gift of Lethe
Episode 1: “The Gift of Lethe”
"We thought memory was identity. We forgot memory is also prison."
Eli and Mara sign the ReGenesis contracts. Flashbacks reveal their old life: Eli’s obsession with consciousness studies, Mara’s artistic fame cut short by degenerative illness. Despite warnings from Eli’s former student—now a whistleblower—they proceed. In a pristine lab, they're euthanized. Their neural data is uploaded, their DNA sequenced.
They awaken in new bodies. Perfect. Youthful. But the first thing Mara says isn’t to Eli—it’s a name no one recognizes.
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