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Unleash The Audio Fiction Hounds!
Issue #51 | 24 Aug 2023
I wasn't the best student in elementary school, but I do remember that there are 52 weeks in a year. That means next week is the one year anniversary of The End! 🥳 Lots of things will be changing next week. Assuming I get all the work done. Working on it!
A big shout out to our latest supporter, Ellen Keating! Your contribution helps keep this train running, Ellen. My deepest thanks. (Want me to say nice things about you? Consider becoming a supporter of The End!)
Let's get into it, shall we?
- Evo
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Featured Audio Fiction
I've listened to every episode of these two shows, and proudly recommend them to you. As with all things in life, YMMV.
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RSS • Trailer
Dramatized scifi comedy from Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC
Life’s not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He’s stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station’s sentient, often malfunctioning operating system Hera. He doesn’t have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcast from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station.
But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life in extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people’s minds. Even the simplest of tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that.
Wolf 359 is a radio drama in the tradition of Golden Age of Radio shows. Take one part space-faring adventure, add one part character drama, and mix in one part absurdist sitcom, and you get Wolf 359.
- Series complete as of 25 Dec 2017
- 4 seasons, 61 episodes
- Listening time: 34h 07m
- 🪐🧑🚀📡
Evo's notes: It takes a few episodes to find its way, but when it does—hold on for the ride! This classic fiction podcast is required listening.
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Dramatized comedy mystery from Queen City Flash
Meet Nolan Blackwell, Teen Sleuth - Girl Detective, and her dog Casper. Nolan has a love of all things Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown. Casper has a penchant for mischief. But not all mysteries are hardbound and soon Nolan Blackwell will have to uncover clues and stare down dangers that threaten to reveal more about her past than she may be ready to confront.
Fans of Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo will delight in this hilarious, opioid-fueled dive into the world of latch-key children and the haunted, dangerous places that meddling leads.
- Season 1 finale released 21 Jul 2023
- 8 episodes
- Listening time: 2h 37m
- Season 2 slated for Jan 2024
- 🔎 🐶 💊
Evo's notes: This one is just goofy fun, with a cast also having a lot of fun. Listen with fun in your heart and you'll probably enjoy it!
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Listen to the companion podcast!
The End Last Week, This Week, and Next Week
Listen to trailers, hear additional commentary, and be mesmerized by the dulcet tones of Evo's voice in this snack-sized companion podcast to The End!
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Look at all these recent finales and finishes! If you can't find something to occupy your time here... well, I don't know what I'll do. But seriously—if these look like something you might be a fan of, give 'em a listen!
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Dramatized fantasy/comedy from Jared Carter
RSS • Episode 1
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On a lonely highway between life and the next life there’s one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station serves travelers as they embark on their journey through the celestial spheres. Meet the Attendant, the Mechanic, and C.A.S.H. Register. Together, they’ll make sure you’re prepared for the ride.
- Season 1 finale released 21 Aug 2023
- 13 episodes
- Listening time: 6h 37m
- Season 2 slated for Feb 2024
- 🌵⚰️⛽
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Narrated post-apocalyptic parody from M.P. Fitzgerald
RSS • Prologue
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Dark humor abounds as a tax agent tries to tame a post-apocalyptic hellscape in this audiobook podcast. Music by Dust Mice.
- Season 2 finale released 21 Aug 2023
- 37 episodes
- Listening time: 11h 33m
- Season 3 is planned
- ☢️🤪🥫
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Dramatized scifi from Faith McQuinn & Observer Pictures | Realm
RSS • Trailer
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In the early 22nd century, the Apollyon virus wiped out 75% of the world’s population, and now most of the world is governed by the International Conglomerate of Research Scientists. An ICRS research scientist may have just discovered an effective vaccine for Apollyon, but the stakes to get the vaccine to the public are higher than she ever imagined.
Black woman creator with a cast of many races and ethnicities
- Season 2 finale released 18 Aug 2023
- 20 episodes
- Listening time: 10h 25m
- Season 3 slated for Apr 2024
- 🦠💉🌐
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Dramatized radio theater from Radio Theater Project
RSS • Episode 1
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The classic story of young orphan Mary Lennox, whose parents died in India during a cholera epidemic. From there, she goes to England to live with her hunchbacked uncle. This is a story of change, where both adults and children learn to become better people.
- Series complete as of 17 Aug 2023
- 3 episodes
- Listening time: 1h 15m
- 🧒🇮🇳🎙️
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Dramatized comedy fantasy from Kier Zhou & The No Returniverse
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A fantasy fiction, comedy adventure, in which two magical researchers are transported to another plane of existence, with only ancient spirits, in the grips of ennui for comfort.
POC representation among the cast.
- Season 1 finale released 15 Aug 2023
- 8 episodes
- Listening time: 2h 48m
- Season 2 slated for Aug 2024
- 🪄👻🍆
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Narrated mystery anthology from Matthew C. McLean
RSS • Episode 1
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An American expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence services, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl.
- Season 1 finale released 9 Aug 2023
- 7 episodes
- Listening time: 0h 55m
- Season 2 is planned
- 🇺🇸🕵️♂️🇫🇷
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Dramtized detective story from Jamie A Marsh
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A retired detective breaks his village’s community when he is encouraged onto the case of a respected member’s murder.
- Series complete as of 11 Jun 2023
- 4 episodes
- Listening time: 1h 39m
- 🔪🫖✉️
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Dramatized YA adventure comedy from Sterling Sulieman
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After a mission to steal a relic from the far ends of Myracula Galaxy doesn’t go as planned… our three sisters, The Trinity Squad, find themselves thrown into their ultimate destiny…To save Myracula.
A POC podcast, with songs!
- Season 1 finale released 31 May 2023
- 5 episodes
- Listening time: 1h 28m
- Season 2 slated for Nov 2023
- 🦹🏽♀️👩🏾🎤🦸🏽♀️
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Presented by Radio Drama Revival,
one of the internet’s longest-running anthology audio drama shows, with
the goal of showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio
fiction.
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Returning on 28 Aug 2023:
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Returning on 31 Aug 2023:
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Hell Gate City, a dramatized scifi comedy from Kevin Berrey & Screaming Panda, returns for Season 2.
• 11 current episodes
• Listening time: 3h 30m
• 🌉🦾🤣
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RSS • Season 2 Trailer
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Murphy's Inc., a dramatized scifi time-traveling heist from Mark Helton & 97toNow Productions, returns for Season 2.
• 6 current episodes
• Listening time: 2h 58m
• 😱🤑🤯
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RSS • Season 1 trailer
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Digital Folklore, a dramatized modern folklore from Perry Carpenter, Mason Amadeus & Realm, returns for Season 2.
• 10 current episodes
• Listening time: 7h 55m
• 🦝🔎👻
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RSS • Season 2 Trailer
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Returning on 15 Sep 2023:
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Mansfield Mysteries, a dramatized comedy mystery from The QuaranTeam Group, returns for Season 2.
• 9 current episodes
• Listening time: 3h 29m
• 🍸🔪🔎
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Project Pulse, a dramatized cyberpunk from Eyes Shut Studio, returns for Season 2.
• 8 current episodes
• Listening time: 2h 01m
• ⚔️🎮♿️
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RSS • Trailer
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Returning on 22 Sep 2023:
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Curdle Holler, a dramatized horror comedy from Rebekah Burchfield and Will Malone, returns for Season 5.
• 24 current episodes
• Listening time: 17h 39m
• 👻🎃🎸
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RSS • Episode 1
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Evo Terra
Benjamin Paddon
Charlotte Underwood
Craig McKinnon
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Anne Baird
Meegan May
Colin J Kelly
Ellen Keating
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Joseph Stephen Leonardo
Gavin Gaddis
Frederick Miller
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Some stats of this newsletter as of 11:49 am 24 Aug 2023
- Total subscribers: 1,590
- Average open rate: 60.57%
- Average click rate: 6.88%
And we're growing! Many sponsorship opportunities are available, including individual support!
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