Outwardly competent and personable, college lecturer James Hayden nevertheless battles with inner emptiness and although yearning for a profound connection has an equally deep fear of it, opting to skim the surface or avoid relationships altogether, until an enigmatic stranger threatens to lure him into unchartered and potentially treacherous waters.

Written and read by Amanda Adams

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Will Booth’s solitary life becomes tortured when gregarious Matthew moves into the apartment upstairs and shakes Will’s ceiling with incessant music. Gruff Will orders him to stop, but defiant Matthew retaliates, playing the beats louder and louder until Will’s volatile temper boils over. One way or another, someone is moving out.

Written and read by Nicholas Cameron

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A religious crusader obsessed by his bloodline legacy is forced to question his beliefs and actions in the face of an unworldly storm. Meanwhile, his tormented wife grows delirious from a looming presence while his captives, a botanist, a brigand and a cleric ruminate on their coming end.

Written by Christopher Parkinson

Read by Marcus Armstrong

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On her train to work, Nancy has her happy ever after accidentally derailed by her time-travelling future self. The twenty-something cardiologist must learn to listen to her own heart and avoid being railroaded by her mother into dating the wrong guy to stay on track to find

her true love.

Written by Lorna Riley

Read by Simon Bubb

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A mild-mannered soft-play centre owner is forced into a life of crime after a chance meeting with a local gangster. With his failing business being used as a front for a range of illegal activities, he struggles to maintain the rosy veneer of this family attraction, while searching for a way out of his predicament.

Written and Read by Brad Brookes

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When a middle-class woman is imprisoned for fraud, she struggles to establish a presence in her cell to avoid becoming the beta dog. She becomes increasingly worried that her nervous habit of oversharing will make her seem like a pushover to her seasoned cellmate; instead, her chatter betrays her psychopathic tendencies and malevolent past.

Written and Read by Belinda Lees

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It is a normal quiet night at the Red Lion for bartender Amy, until a mysterious stranger emerges from the darkness with impossible knowledge. As the night wears on, Amy must choose whether to trust a man she has never met, or risk everything for the chance of something better.

Performed by Ruth Hayes, Marcus Armstrong & Belinda Lees

Written by Marcus Armstrong

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Whilst house sitting for their parents, Hadley and Ida’s home is intruded by burglars causing them to take refuge in the attic. The twins wake up and realise they are locked in. They will have to put aside their differences and find a way out or, wait two weeks for the return of their parents.

Written by Laura Owen

Read by Ruth Hayes

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Fred and Fiona are tasked with operating the last fax machines and find themselves locked in hand-drawn conversation; but as the company tries to move into the future, a shadowy figure threatens to end their conversation for good.

Written by Marcus Armstrong

Read by Ruth Hayes

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Two short children's stories. A moustache-driven rivalry and an extra-terrestrial conspiracy involving knitting and the Australian Prime-Minister.

Written and Read by Belinda Lees

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