How Does This End?

Season 2 feels like a milestone because there are a lot of podcasts with only a handful of episodes. This podcast won’t be counted among them, which feels like an accomplishment. I’m also excited for the stories this season. I think there’s more depth to them. They’re also a bit longer, and I think that’s for the better.

But back to the episode. Reactions fascinate me. All of them. Emotional responses to feeling slighted or being in love. Chemical and physical reactions to things and people under intense heat and pressure. Or how my wife, Hallease, reacts to a roach in our apartment: with shocking speed and excessive amounts of insecticide.

Then there are nuclear reactions in space (I know, it’s a rough segue, but just humor me). There’s no need to wonder about that since the U.S. government performed such an act on July 9, 1962 (though the Soviets were conducting their own tests as well). It was called ‘Starfish Prime,’ whose purpose was to discover the effects of a nuclear blast in higher elevations and lower space. The subsequent explosion: temporarily altered the planet’s magnetosphere, disrupted power to Hawaii, created an artificial aurora borealis that cast the sky blood-red across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to New Zealand, and created a temporary radiation belt around Earth’s lower orbit that damaged Telstar the AT&T communications satellite (a first of its kind). There’s an interesting write-up in Smithsonian Magazine and some interesting footage on YouTube.

This episode is called “The Fate of the Caliphur.”

Smithsonian Write Up:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/going-nuclear-over-the-pacific-24428997/

YouTube Footage: https://youtu.be/KZoic9vg1fw

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Season 2 of How Does This End? will be launching this Friday, February 4th and I'm so excited to bring some new stories to you. If you haven't already, make sure to follow me on Instagram @HDTE.mp3 so you don't miss out. Our cover art for season 2 will be provided by Edgar Lushaju, check out his work on Instagram @drawhapa.

Be well, do good and I'll see you on Friday. 

Do better.

Stories are portals to other worlds, timelines, and lives. This one recalls an instance that I wish had played out differently.

Trapped within the folds of our minds there is boundless potential. We are capable of such good. So let’s try to do better.

This episode is titled, “No Cure for Some Ills, and Yet, a Duty to Act.”

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Work. Work. Work…No work. Too much work. Stupid work.

Yeah, I was feeling a certain type of way about work for this episode. This episode was one of two that had only one voice but two characters referenced. Sea monkeys are also referenced.

This episode is titled, “The Effects of Choice, Consent, and Purpose: A Study”.

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A bank vault. The Pope’s nose. Psychics and sports betting.

This episode’s story is the result of letting my mind wander. It’s a cross-section of a bigger story, maybe, but I wanted to focus on dialogue between two characters. I also decided to give voice-acting and accents a try as well. Let me know what you think via Instagram, the website, or patreon.

This episode is titled, “Losin’ it”.

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The timing of this story this late after Halloween is unfortunate, especially since Christmas displays are ubiquitous now. Spooky stories aren’t everyone’s thing, but I just ask that you give this one a shot.

This episode’s story is modeled after my late-night drives back home after working in a North Austin Emergency Department.

The trip home was short, but mercilessly dark and lonely. There was a small grove of trees behind our apartment complex viewable from the road. A world of unknown terrors hid in that tangled grove of gnarled branches and crooked tree trunks.

One of those things slithered out and made its way into this story.

This episode is titled, “Help Needed”.

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In this episode, I mention that not every story can be your favorite. My wife and I are coming back from a family function, which has given me time to reflect, and I think that sentiment is unfair to the story.

I like this story. I love this story.

I would not have put it out if I thought otherwise. I’m not a parent but I assume that every child brings something different to the table, these stories do the same. (There are plenty of duds that are still works in progress or waiting to be put out to the digital pasture.)

It’s not necessarily the best story or the most original, but I think it has something to say and that’s meaningful enough. Thank you for allowing me this informal therapy session.

This episode is called “Hello.”

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Welcome to the first episode of How Does This End? A storytelling space for my short fiction. Today’s episode was inspired by Latif Nasser, a well-known journalist and podcaster. He did an episode of Radiolab called “The World’s Biggest Scavenger Hunt: A Guide To Finding Stories.” In it, he talks about looking through trade magazines for inspiration. I decided to follow his advice and do just that. I stumbled into a rabbit hole of food topics, one of which, eventually became the fodder for the first draft of this story. This is Pay The Piper.

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Hello and welcome to How Does This End? a podcast I've created to find a home for my short-form fiction. My name is Chris Narvaez and I used to be a nurse. Now, years later I've realized that I might be called to do something else. Maybe it's this? Who knows. You're tagging along so I guess we'll both see how this ends. 

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