Mother, it’s not your birthday.

And for God’s sake, that’s not the mailman’s name.

Episode 4 is early.

Chaos is free.

Next Monday, February 2:

Photo filters. Group delusions.

Real-time Photoshop.

Infinite confidence. Infinite delusion.

https://buymeacoffee.com/ScriptComs

If you’ve trusted me this far, we’re three stories in now.

You’ve met the characters. You know their rhythms. You probably already have favorites—people you recognize, people you worry about, people who make you laugh when you didn’t expect to.

I want you to know something important: I’m serious about this project.

These characters didn’t come from nowhere. Most of them came from love. Some came from loss. Some came from friendships that ended without warning or explanation.

David is real. I worked with him. Every strange, endearing, unhinged thing I write about him is true—or so close to true that I can’t separate it anymore. I don’t know how to reach him now, and I miss him. Writing him is how I remember him.

Stephanie is real too. We don’t speak anymore. It was one of those friendships that was incredible when it worked, and painful when it didn’t. I chose to remember the good version—the brilliant, resourceful, magnetic person she was when the world made sense. You met her in Episode Three.

Alta is also real. She’s my mother—reimagined. I’m going to say this once and then we’ll leave it in the story where it belongs: my mother disowned me. So I wrote a mother who believes her child is extraordinary. You can hear it every time she talks about Felix.

Pumpernickel was family. He’s gone now. Every day I used to ask him, “Are we friends today?” Sometimes he answered. Sometimes he didn’t. Until I stop missing him, I’m going to keep writing him alive.

I have plans for other characters. That’s all I’m saying for now.

If you’re enjoying Found Family 365, likes and hearts matter more than you think.

Next episode drops Monday, January 26: “The Best Birthday Call.”

And occasionally—just occasionally—I’ll break the wall like this and let you see where the stories come from.

The Programming of David

Season 1, Episode 3

Roombas. Furry chainsaws. Ham.

Oh my.

You won’t want to miss this one.

S1 E3 — The Programming of David

Next Monday, January 26:

The Best Birthday Call

Don’t miss it.

You’ll regret it if you do.

You might regret it if you don’t.

Louis Clifford Caldwell Jr.

https://substack.com/@scriptcoms

FOUND FAMILY 365 did it again.

Episode Two of Season One introduces
The Lunch Goblin.

David risks his health, invents rules of engagement,
and creates a full tracking system
for other people’s forgotten food.

This is what happens when workplace etiquette meets spiritual delusion —
and somehow survives.

🎧 Listen. Laugh. Judge quietly.
Then like, share, and review — it keeps the goblins fed.

📅 January 19 — don’t miss the next drop:
“The Programming of David.”

That’s the episode where you finally learn
why cats are just stubborn Roombas
who keep cashing in their unlimited PTO.

📅 January 26 — and every Monday after.
It’s a year-long thing.

New episodes every Monday.

Found Family 365 is an independently produced,
voice-driven narrative series
by a dyslexic American storyteller
who builds worlds with sound, timing, and chaos.

Turn on your ears.
I’m bringing dyslexia.
If you keep up, trust me — it’s funny.
Guard your lunch.

Louis Clifford Caldwell Jr.

https://substack.com/@scriptcoms

FOUND FAMILY 365 — Season One begins with That Hurts.
A weekly audio story released every Monday for an entire year—a Spotify sitcom where the pictures happen in your head. No screens. No homework. Just a hangout with friendly voices.

Built from a dyslexic brain. If I can use dyslexia, you can use your ears.

It’s about the people who didn’t realize they chose each other until it was already done.

Episode One sets the tone: funny first, honest second, emotional whether you asked for it or not.

Like, share, heart, or review—I work faster.
Turn the TV off. Adjust your imagination accordingly.

Louis Clifford Caldwell Jr.
https://substack.com/@scriptcoms

This morning at 11, I had the absolute pleasure of being interviewed by my friend Brandon on Substack, and it was a blast from start to finish. I’m sharing both the video link and the audio version on Spotify so you can jump in however you like.

Brandon is one of those rare people who shows up as a real friend and a great storyteller. If you’re looking for thoughtful writing, sharp observations, or someone who can casually teach you something about baking while telling a great story, go find him. He’ll be right there on Substack, waiting for you to subscribe—calm, curious, and fully himself.

The point of this interview was simple and ambitious at the same time: to talk about what I’m creating, why I’m creating it, and what the heck Script-Coms™ actually are. We get into voice-driven dialogue, found family, storytelling as survival, and building a creative world that makes room for people who never quite saw themselves reflected anywhere else.

It’s honest, it’s nerdy, it’s funny in places, and it meant a lot to me. I’m grateful to Brandon—not just for the interview, but for the friendship.

🎧 Listen to a Script-Com™

Hear what voice-driven dialogue actually sounds like on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NMxbP8LuKd0YbFKveuvNt?si=qYHcMBh0Qu2flgQaczZprg&pi=SYbVNQi8RT-f9&t=220

✍️ Follow Brandon

Smart storytelling, thoughtful writing, and occasional baking wisdom on Substack:

https://substack.com/@brandonellrich?r=5o28sc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

🌀 Follow Louis

Essays, experiments, and the why behind the work:

https://substack.com/@accidentallysideways?r=5o28sc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

🎬 Follow Script-Coms™

Episodic, voice-driven storytelling built like a sitcom and written like a conversation:

https://substack.com/@scriptcoms?r=5o28sc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

Found Family 365 — Young Felix

A Christmas Day Script-Coms™ gift from me to you, my new found family.

Don’t forget: January 5. Mondays.

Found Family 365 — the pilot episode “That HURTS” premieres.

⸻

ALTA:

Felix loved summertime and his three-ring blow-up pool.

He always had a strong personality. I mean—really something. I should know. I’m the mother.

He could make me do one of three things at any given moment: laugh, cry, or hide. Sometimes I’d choke laughing. Once—or was it twice?—I had to crawl under the table.

One time, while visiting elderly patients in a nursing home, you explained stray cat love affairs to a group of nuns. You were very clear about why the screeching was necessary.

So yes. I’ve hidden under tables.

But my son had laser focus. And when he set his eyes and his mind on doing something, he was almost unstoppable.

Almost.

Tammy Wynette is—and will always be—your godmother and one heck of a gal pal. She’d come over in the summers and, for reasons known only to her and Satan, she loved to aggravate you.

She’d park herself right in the backyard—specifically in your inflatable three-ring pool.

The one you were dying to get into.

She knew it drove you crazy.

That’s why she did it.

Well… mostly.

You couldn’t say “Tammy Wynette.” For some reason, it always came out as Aqua Net.

So you’d stand there, ready for the pool, arms planted firmly on either side of your little belly, wearing the cutest swimsuit—no shirt, full indignation—announcing to the world:

“Aqua Net is hogging the pool again.”

Sometimes I’d chase her out myself.

Other times, you’d had enough.

I’d say, “Baby, just say Tammy.”

You’d say, “Tammy Faye! Get out!”

Then you’d point at the hose.

Tammy would just smile at you.

That’s when you grabbed the fly swatter. No hesitation. You took off running. Full sprint. Swinging it wildly.

At that point, I’d have to intercept—wrestle it out of your hands—because you were absolutely prepared to beat the volume and the body out of her hair.

You were tiny.

But you were not playing.

⸻

ALTA:

You know Tammy loves to aggravate you.

FELIX:

Will you ask her to love me less?

ALTA:

Will you stop attacking her with a fly swatter?

FELIX:

Can I have a bigger pool?

ALTA:

This is serious, baby. You can’t go after people and attack them with items.

FELIX:

Aqua Net wants a bigger pool too.

ALTA:

I think I’m being hustled by a selfish country star and the Coppertone kid.

⸻

I love writing Young Felix.

Maybe it’s the same reason a Southern accent makes my ears perk up.

— Louis Clifford Caldwell Jr.

I wrote a sitcom.

More precisely, I wrote something adjacent to a sitcom and refused to wait for television to catch up.

I call them Script-Coms™.

Traditional sitcoms live on TV. They’re expensive, slow, and dependent on permission. If everything goes right, you might get one season a year.

Script-Coms™ share some DNA with sitcoms.

They have a cast.

They have theme songs.

They are written as scripts.

They live and die by voice-driven dialogue.

Here’s where the format breaks away.

Script-Coms™ are published, not produced.

They’re released episodically, not piloted.

They exist simultaneously as script, audio performance, and personal artifact.

I publish the script.

I publish a handwritten Inspiration Behind the Story for every episode.

I cast every character using ElevenLabs voices—performance without a studio.

I release every Script-Com™ for free, in both written and audio form, on Substack and Spotify.

No gatekeepers.

No pilot season.

No artificial scarcity.

The audience doesn’t wait to be chosen—the story just arrives.

Stories that jump off the page and live rent-free in the mind.

For 2026, I’m launching Found Family 365.

Season One and Season Two begin Monday, January 5, 2026, with a new episode every Monday for the entire year.

The first 26 episodes of Season One are already written.

The cast is locked.

Mondays are officially taken.

Every Monday, if you’ve got about ten minutes, you can listen to or read a fast-paced script and give your adult brain something fun to chew on. Script-Coms™ exist as both script and fully cast audio because I struggle with words—but I love stories, and I write for the ear.

Come love a story every Monday.

Let the TV watch you on Mondays.

Additional Script-Coms™ will roll out throughout the year—same universe, different shapes, the same obsession with dialogue that sounds like real people thinking out loud.

And at the heart of it all is Found Family 365.

A modern take on family—where no one is related by DNA, but you’d never know it.

Felix was adopted by Alta.

Stephanie and Felix share an unbreakable friendship.

David is the newest member of the family, still figuring out how he fits—and already essential.

These characters are written to be spoken.

To be acted.

To be tried on by different voices in different rooms.

If you want to perform them, rehearse them, stage them, or just read them out loud with friends, you’re already invited.

I’m a queer, dyslexic storyteller who decided that waiting for permission was optional.

I write for the ear first.

I write characters who feel like people you text too much—and miss immediately when they stop replying.

Sitcoms wait to be produced.

Script-Coms™ are already alive.

— Louis Clifford Caldwell Jr.

https://substack.com/@accidentallysideways

Stephanie:

“The Obama scandal isn’t working this time to protect Trump.”

Felix:

“Tell Melania the next time you see her at pole dancing class to just scream ‘BENGHAZI!’ It’s like the Republicans’ nuclear option.”

Stephanie:

“If they reach for Hillary’s emails again, they’ve officially jumped the shark.”

Felix:

“I would’ve told her myself, but I didn’t want to interrupt the class. She’s teaching it now.”

Stephanie:

“Honestly? I’m not mad. She’s giving me a career option for when this country fully collapses.

Nancy Reagan gave us ‘Just Say No.’ Barbara Bush gave us literacy.

Melania’s out here giving us free pole dancing certification with a focus on upper-body strength and regime change.

That’s the First Lady glow-up we didn’t know we needed.”

🎙️ Script-Coms™: Love, I’m Fabulous
A Found Family Day Movie

Meet Felix—raised in a Catholic orphanage with glitter in his veins and wisdom well beyond his years. Guided by a soft-spoken Southern priest and an impossibly glamorous woman named Alta, Felix navigates faith, fashion, and the fierce art of being yourself in a world that often wants you to shrink.

From runway communion processions to divine fashion interventions, Love, I’m Fabulous is a story of identity, resilience, and sequined rebellion. It's laugh-out-loud funny, quietly sacred, and emotionally rich—where the sign of the cross becomes a promise: Head. Toe. Wallet. Watch.

✨For anyone who’s ever felt “too much” in a world that asks for less—you belong here.