Reality Dispatch

Reality Dispatch

By Jim MinnsFictionScience Fiction
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Reality Dispatch episodes

  • Outnumbered In Bullets, But Not In Guts

    Doc Holliday is dying from Consumption - but still finds the strength to assist his friend Wyatt Earp on what would be a very consequential morning.Based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral



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    4 min
  • To Fly

    A fictional account of Noel Gallagher’s thoughts some months ago…

    Based on this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/27/oasis-reunion-confirmed-for-uk-and-ireland-tour-in-2025-liam-noel-gallagher



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    6 min
  • Tallis Fantasia

    The fictional account of 16th Century Musician Thomas Tallis’s writing of the tune that would become ‘Fantasia on a Theme’ - That can be heard here:



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    6 min
  • Zero Gravity Spheres

    Based on a speculative account of Astronaut Ken Bowersox’s moments following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/stranded-space-nasa-doesn-t-142109496.html



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    4 min
  • The Water From The Well

    Based on these quotes from Stephen King on the subject of death and mortality: https://www.azquotes.com/author/8052-Stephen_King/tag/dying



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    5 min
  • Writing The Last Temptation

    Nikos Kazantzakis weeps openly as he attempts to complete the Novel ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’.

    Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Temptation-of-Christ/Nikos-Kazantzakis/9780684852560



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    4 min
  • The Visitor

    Raphael receives a visitor in Florence in 1503.

    Based on this: https://monalisa.org/2012/09/07/the-influence-of-leonardo-da-vinci-on-raffaello-sanzio-da-urbino/



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    5 min
  • Dialogue

    Loosely based on the trial of Socrates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates



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    5 min
  • Politically Inactive

    The story of the motivation behind Tim Walz’s political activism. Inspired by an interaction he had with security present at a rally for then-President George W. Bush in 2004 as heard on New York Times’s The Daily Podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/podcasts/the-daily/tim-walz-vp-democrats.html



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    6 min
  • A Letter From Wyatt

    Wyatt’s final letter to Cyrus, December 23rd, 1553. He writes from an undisclosed prison, held for an unnamed crime.



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    4 min

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