Reality Dispatch

Reality Dispatch

By Jim MinnsFictionScience Fiction
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Reality Dispatch episodes

  • The Mistake

    This is an account of the writing process of today’s fiction and the horrible realization that came with a little post-fact googling.



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    3 min
  • A Meanness In The World

    Helen Starkweather was the mother of Charles Starkweather. This is a fictional account of a day in her life.



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    4 min
  • Jupto Bowed

    This story is not based on anything other than an attempt to summon the unconscious into receiving and then re-transmitting something that the netherworld would like to have submitted on file for us all.

    The original short story can be found at jimminnsfiction.substack.com



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    7 min
  • A Communication

    This is a fictional account of a scene from this documentary by The New Yorker - A Look Inside a Taliban Courtroom | Swift Justice | The New Yorker Documentary -



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    4 min
  • The Tree

    Based on - ‘COMO’ in the Dictionary of Sydney by Helen McDonald - https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/como#:~:text=The%20earliest%20inhabitants%20of%20Como,on%20their%20explorations%20in%201795.



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    3 min
  • Day 2003

    Based on this - THE MARKED MAN

    An innocent man’s exoneration after 37 years in prison revealed a rash of serial killings in 1983 Tampa. By Christopher Spata AND Dan Sullivan - https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2024/05/29/florida-tampa-killer-trial-murder-dna-mystery-innocent-prison-released/



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    3 min
  • Painting The 'X'

    Based on The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Daily entries from the 17th century London diary - https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1665/06/07/



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    4 min
  • What Was Once Unthinkable

    Based on: Inside Rikers Island, the jail 'ready' to receive Donald Trump after he was found guilty in hush money trial - By Phoebe Tonks, Fiona Leishman, Mansur Shaheen - 31 May 2024 - Mirror.co.uk

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/inside-rikers-island-jail-ready-32929416



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    4 min
  • Dog Eat Dog

    This is fiction, based on: “Even as the judicial system finds Trump guilty, his attacks take a toll” - Washington Post, May 31st, 2024 (By Sarah Ellison and Josh Dawsey)



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    4 min
  • Samuel's Oath

    This is fiction - Based on: Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home - New York Times, Jodi Kantor Aric Toler and Julie Tate, May 22 - 2024



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimminns.substack.com
    5 min

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Short stories, written by Jim Minns

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