Welcome to Minus World, and to our Solstice episode—where the night runs long and the world feels just a little less saturated.

Tonight’s stories drift between greed and generosity, between warmth and the slow pull of the dark. You’ll hear a Wiccan twist on a familiar winter rhyme, encounter a trio of unusual holiday figures with questionable résumés, follow a mouse in an airship on an earnest errand, and—because balance demands it—sit through a Santa slasher that definitely didn’t make the nice list.

Light a candle. Settle in. Winter is listening.