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What began as a nightmare on a dark road ends here, in the place where Brooklyn's Mother Line was born, where it has always known how to finish what men start.

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Staring:

EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

TOBY MEULI as ZANE

MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER

The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

Tanya Ruby

Rotem Fenichel

Rachel Kern

Olivia Rokicianski

Melissa Carrington

Maganda Marie

LaKira Porter

Jessie D

Ivy Moody

ADK Egall

Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night

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With Brooklyn bound and pushed to her limit, Alex escalates, pulling Zane across lines he never thought he'd cross. But the land this house sits on remembers who Brooklyn is, even when she's forgotten. And in the forest, someone else hears the truth, too.

Part THREE of FOUR

E4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Staring:

EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

TOBY MEULI as ZANE

MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER

The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

Tanya Ruby

Rotem Fenichel

Rachel Kern

Olivia Rokicianski

Melissa Carrington

Maganda Marie

LaKira Porter

Jessie D

Ivy Moody

ADK Egall

Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night

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As the party rages and the drinks keep flowing, Zane turns conflict with Brooklyn into a performance for the room. Brooklyn flips the script and leaves the group shaken with the weight of her history. But the ride home is about to put their relationship and that history to the ultimate test.

Part TWO of FOUR

Ep 3 release: July 2

Ep 4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

[email protected]

Staring:

EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

TOBY MEULI as ZANE

MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER

The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

Tanya Ruby

Rotem Fenichel

Rachel Kern

Olivia Rokicianski

Melissa Carrington

Maganda Marie

LaKira Porter

Jessie D

Ivy Moody

ADK Egall

Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night

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When Brooklyn and Zane become the target of a radicalized federal agent, the night of terror drives Brooklyn to finally embrace the ancestral power she has always kept at arm's length - her Mother Line.

Part ONE of FOUR

Ep 2 release: June 18

Ep 3 release: July 2

Ep 4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

[email protected]

Staring:

EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

TOBY MEULI as ZANE

MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER

The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

Tanya Ruby

Rotem Fenichel

Rachel Kern

Olivia Rokicianski

Melissa Carrington

Maganda Marie

LaKira Porter

Jessie D

Ivy Moody

ADK Egall

Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night

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Thank you! 

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🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode contains scenes which are sexually explicit, and may not be suitable for all listeners.

Time skips, jumps, and stops. Mya is everywhere now… too close, too hungry, threatening to devour Kaylee’s entire world. Then… a voice. Familiar. How did she get here? When a simple question shatters everything, Kaylee must make a terrible decision.

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INK - Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by JEFF SCHMIDT - [email protected]

FEATURING:

SYD KILROY as KAYLEE

GRACE LACEY as MYA

RACHEL ADDINGTON as LIV

CARA KLUVER as SYD

MILLY SANDERS as AURA

FAYE HOLIDAY as DENISE

HANNAH TRAUSCHT as ANNA

ROMY EVANS as DANICA

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“Instead of dreaming, now I love. And while loving, I create what I afterwards recognize as a dream.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927

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🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode contains scenes which are sexually explicit, and may not be suitable for all listeners.

Mya has returned to Kaylee, and their reunion is intense, visceral, and blissful. But there’s something else… just under the surface… a need. 

How long can Kaylee play along? What will she lose if she doesn’t? Does she even have a choice?

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INK - Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by JEFF SCHMIDT - [email protected]

FEATURING:

SYD KILROY as KAYLEE

GRACE LACEY as MYA

RACHEL ADDINGTON as LIV

CARA KLUVER as SYD

MILLY SANDERS as AURA

KURT OBERHAUS as CORBIN

MICHAEL URSU as THE DRIVER

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“Instead of dreaming, now I love. And while loving, I create what I afterwards recognize as a dream.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927

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Aura delivers on her promise, giving Kaylee, Liv & Syd an audience with Markos. But things do not go as planned, and now Kaylee finds herself drawn into a mysterious world where nothing is as it seems, and a broken heart tattoo mysteriously appears on her wrist. And somewhere in the ink, Mya’s voice is calling.

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INK - Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by JEFF SCHMIDT- [email protected]

FEATURING:

SYD KILROY as KAYLEE

GRACE LACEY as MYA

RACHEL ADDINGTON as LIV

CARA KLUVER as SYD

MILLY SANDERS as AURA

ANN SONNEVILLE as MARKOS

ALLISON COSSITT as THE NURSE

MICHAEL URSU as THE DRIVER

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“Instead of dreaming, now I love. And while loving, I create what I afterwards recognize as a dream.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927

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One year after losing her wife, Mya, to violence, Kaylee travels to New Orleans with friends Liv and Syd to mark the unbearable anniversary.

But Syd is fixated on finding Markos… local artists rumored to practice ancient inking rituals that transform existing tattoos. Kaylee’s refusal to join the search is thwarted when they meet local mystic, Aura, who promises to bring them to the Markos on one condition.

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INK - Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by JEFF SCHMIDT- [email protected]

FEATURING:

SYD KILROY as KAYLEE

GRACE LACEY as MYA

RACHEL ADDINGTON as LIV

CARA KLUVER as SYD

MILLY SANDERS as AURA

RANDY THOMPSON as ZEKE

KURT OBERHAUS as CORBIN

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“Instead of dreaming, now I love. And while loving, I create what I afterwards recognize as a dream.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927

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After their frightening discovery Kat and Logan take drastic measures to escape what seems to be a deadly trap.

Part TWO of TWO.

Written by Hannah Mescon

Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Featuring:

JESSICA DIGIOVANNI as Kat

MIKKI HERNANDEZ as IRIS

JEFF SCHMIDT as LOGAN

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