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A private investigator who thinks she's chasing a thief realizes that her case may be linked to her own uncanny past, and a truth she may not be ready to face.

Genre: Mystery

Excerpt: She didn't let me into her house, but she did give me the trash bag with the broken shards of the mirror. And she did agree to take a picture of the mirror's remnants with my camera. (She frowned when Iteased her not to steal it.) My phone had a better lens than that old camera, but this wasn't the first time someone didn't let me in somewhere, but did agree to take pictures for me.

I nodded to myself as I reviewed the pictures. I would be able to put the shards back together again. And compare them to the other mirrors I'd reassembled. I could already guess what I would find.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Adventitious: 1) Associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part 2) Botany, Zoology. Appearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place, as a root. (source dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "All the Mirrors Are Broken" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Cold case" "Genetic marker" "Connecting dots" "In search for" "Under the mask" "Neon city"

Music by TAO AND SOUND* "80s Synth Ambient 01 C"

Music by RAFAEL ARCHANGEL "Smoke" "So Cold"

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Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Tao and Sound is licensed from GameDev Market Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal LicenseSound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A woman seen from the left, crouching and picking up a shard of glass. She wears a knee-length coat which flares down from the waist. More shards of glass lie on the floor. She holds a small notebook in her left hand, and wears a ring with a stone on her right hand. At top left, glass shatters outward from left to right above her head. On the wall or surface behind are faint elemental symbols.

Every year on her birthday, the daughter of a mage receives a key that unlocks a different world in her enchanted triptych.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy

Excerpt: When I was born, a clever mage, who was also my mother, made for me a triptych: three panels, attached in a row by hinges, depicting paintings of our home. The middle panel depicted our capital city, where we lived. The left panel depicted my mother, her hands raised as if in the casting of a spell. The right panel depicted the Arx, the great tower of knowledge where mages learned their trade. The flanking panels were each half the width of the middle one, so they could be folded inward, and the image could be hidden. And strangely, my mother had built a lock into the triptych. Once folded, the triptych could be secured. I did not know why it would need to be locked. There were no secret or blasphemous things depicted in the paintings, as far as I knew.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Triptych: (Fine arts.) A set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like. (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "The Magic Triptych" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "A new day begins" "Peacefull place" "Imagine" "The village" "Oinions" "Into wild lands" "City" "Emblem" "Shadow forest" "Home" "Immortals" "Oinions (second part)"

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A collage made of three panels, the center one being square and bigger than the two rectangles that flank it, which are of equal size to each other. From left to right, a long stem flower with six petals and two long leaves running alongside the stem; the front half of a turtle swimming at right, and strands of seaweed and fish swimming behind the turtle; and the bright silhouette of a tall tower with several openings and protruding sections, and the silhouettes of trees on either side.

A student seeking to learn the craft of enchantment is challenged to pass through a forest filled with strange obstacles.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Mythology

Excerpt: "Wait until you are within the borders of the forest before you open the box, else you have failed before you have begun."

With those words, the schoolmaster turned away and left Naji alone before the borders of the forest.

Naji entered the forest with no other possessions but that box, as the test required. He carried no water, no food, no clothing but what he already wore, no bedroll, nothing to trade or barter with.

But that is what he had chosen. A box.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Who knows what I could have been thinking? I certainly don't remember, and I didn't write it down this time. But did you know that the Dutch word for "butterfly" is "vlinder"? There's a Vlinder in this story.

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CREDITSStory: "The Forest of the Dasollagi" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Lonely Day" "Elders wisdom" "The forest" "Ancient gods" "Deep lands part 2" "Kingdom rises" "Infinite land" "Creatures of the night" "The edge of nightmare" "Back in the village" "The bard"

Music by JONATHAN SHAW* "Cold Sanctuary" "Treading the Unknown"

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At bottom, center right, a figure seen in dark silhouette walks a forest path toward a simple cabin. Bordering this path is trees and shrubbery. The right side is in shadow. Light shines through the trees from top left. Along the left of frame, a faint shadowy figure extends a long-fingered arm toward the person walking to the cabin. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. The image is made square by adding borders at top and bottom that copy and extend the edges of the original image in grayscale and shadow.

Two cousins decide to visit the mysterious isle of giants, and to steal portions of treasure small enough to escape a giant's notice, but large enough to make their fortunes.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: "We will live in their house, as mice live in ours. Wes hall never want for anything. One slice of their bread could feed us for half a year." Slubber slapped me on the back. "Cousin, I have always thought you clever, but this is beyond clever. This is true brilliance."

"Mice. What if there are giant mice?" Strangely, the thought had not occurred to me, as many useful thoughts had not. "Or worse yet…cats?" What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Slubber: to perform hastily or carelessly (dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "A Tiny Man in a Giant Land" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by BENJAMIN CARR (Scythuz)* "Dwarven Settlement" "Miscellaneous Battle Theme 3" "Deceitful Castle" "Crystal Caves"

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "A bank in the inn" "Jesters dance" "Into wild lands" "Infinite land" "Written in stones"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Benjamin Carr and Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Scan of ink drawing, digitally colored. A person at right and facing left, partially seen from waist to forehead, holds the handle of a Y-shaped slingshot in the extended left arm. The right hand stretches back the sling portion, which contains a stone, and a small human figure lying with their back on the stone. In the background is a sunny blue sky, with a light scattering of rain, and to the left, rocky terrain obscured by fog that extends to bottom edge.

ALERT: This episode contains a fictionalized depiction of a panic attack and heartbeat sound effects. Please listen with caution. A patient checks into the hospital for a simple procedure and experiences remarkable side effects.

Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Excerpt: It was a simple procedure.

A simple procedure.

I would be admitted to the hospital overnight. I had to be fasting. Except for some clear liquid that the nurse would have me drink every four hours. It contained some stuff that the doctor called "fixers." She explained that they were meant to help boost the efficiency of the procedure and help my recovery go faster. Then she joked that they would "fix" me.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Fantod: usually "the fantods." A state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets

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CREDITSStory: "A Simple Procedure" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by LEE ROSEVERE "All the Answers" "Heat Haze" "The Nightmare" "Here's the Thing"

Music by CHRIS LOGSDON* "Level 8" "Level 6" "Level 7"

Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)* "Slightly Across (No Percussion)" "March Of The Waking Lights" "Night Time (No Percussion)" "Forest Bathing"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrea Baroni and Chris Logsdon is licensed from GameDev Market Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. View around two sides of a corner. On the left wall are two elevators with a man stepping away from the far elevator. The man holds a bouquet and a balloon. On the right wall is a painting and a floor vase containing a plant. The right wall is connected to another wall. At right foreground are two women and a girl. One woman and the girl stand against a counter and one woman stands behind them. Transposed over all this are the translucent distorted edges and outlines of the original image.

A lone astronaut and a ship's artificial intelligence spend two decades trapped in a spatial phenomenon from which there is no escape.

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: What if you knew that you only had twenty-five years to live, safely and surely, but you would be alone, watching your death approach, unable to escape it? And what if you knew that whatever you did or accomplished in that time would most certainly never be known by the rest of your people? So you won't be leaving behind a legacy of observations and musings. Not even raw data collected by the sensors will make it out. What would you do? Who would you be?

Do you think you'd last?

Do you think I will last?

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Futilitarian: 1) believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified. 2) a person who holds this belief. (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "Happy Anniversary, Forever" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "()" "Haunted spaceship"

Music by ANDREW SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)* "Unknown Terrain" "Space Discoveries" "Time for Adventures"

Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)* "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)" "Cozy Afternoons" "Forest Bathing" "The Longest Year (No Percussion)" "The Longest Year"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy, Andrew Sitkov, Andrea Baroni is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A face seen in left profile from chin to forehead vertically and nose to cheek horizontally. The face is looking upward, mouth parted and brows drawn in. Reflected in the iris and the background are images of phenomena in space, like stars and nebulas.

Andie Ogami is hired as a spy by a wealthy family because of her ability to astral project.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: "How do you feel?" the technician asked. She was holding one of those astral scanners toward my head.

I blinked a few times. "Strange…uh, disoriented." My lips felt dry. I licked them and glanced over at the chair where I'd left my handbag. I had some balm in one of the front pockets.

"Here," the technician said, handing me a pad and pen. "Write down everything you remember in as much detail as you can provide. Remember your training, all five senses in one section, emotions in an-other. If you have any thoughts and impressions and speculations, you can record them in the last section."

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Otiose: being at leisure; idle (source: dictionary.com)

I mentioned in the outro that I needed additional help brainstorming this story. So I rolled my Story Cubes. STORY CUBES(I'm not being paid to endorse these or anything. I just really like them, and actually use them.)

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CREDITSStory: "Astral Andie Is Angry" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "As it happened" "Learned punch" "Master" "Trojan horse" "In search for" "Fist of fury" "Mindhunter (seamless)" "Virtual reality" "The deal" "Men in black"

Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)* "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)" "Night Time (No Percussion)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrea Baroni is licensed from GameDev Market

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A woman, seen from waist up, lying down on a cot near a window with closed blinds. The view is angled so her head is at top right. She wears a long sleeve sweater over a collared shirt. Her short hair lies at her left side. Her right hand lies over her stomach. Her left hand at her waist. Her eyes are closed and her face is expressionless. A glowing waking version of her face with brows and mouth drawn down appears vertically above her neck as if the ghostly face has risen from the sleeping face. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. The format is made square with borders above and below that repeat or blur out the original image.

A guest at an extravagant hotel gets lost and stumbles upon a strange secret.

Genre: Mystery, Fantasy

Excerpt: I noticed the magician when he slipped in behind the last person to enter the golden-walled elevator, and I sucked in a breath. I held it, half-subconsciously, as if it would make me invisible to him. It did not. I started feeling thudding of my heart as soon as he started turning to people, one at a time, handing them scraps of paper, touching their hands. I exhaled when he turned to me and handed me a scrap of paper too. He grinned and told me what I was supposed to do the next time he called upon me.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Gloaming: twilight; dusk (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "Lost and Found at the Hotel Gloaming" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by ANDREW SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)* "Casual Theme #3" "Casual Theme #1" "Story at Night" "Hidden Fear" "Peace in My World (final theme)" "Magic Within" "Scary Theme #2 (Version 2)" "A&C Percussion Loop #3"

Music by ALBERT FERNANDEZ (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Humorous Exploration (loop)" "Exploration Cave (loop)" "Holy Cathedral" "Cue Nostalgic Story"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrew Sitkov and Albert Fernandez is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Partial slightly angled view of a wall of compartments, like ornate safe deposit boxes, bearing an art deco pattern of layered scales. One box is fully visible. It bears a plate at its bottom right corner that reads "1443." At bottom center is the handle to the box, an art deco pattern of fanned out diamonds. Above the handle is the lock. A key sits in the lock and that key is being held by a hand whose bottom half is covered by a sleeve which extends out of frame to the right. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" appears along the left edge of the main box. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. Borders at top and bottom with a messy stamp of the layered scales pattern make the final image shape square.

Strange happenings in one household trigger a police investigation that reveals a deeper mystery.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: A few days later, Reggie mentioned seeing a "weird-looking dog" in the backyard when he came home from school. He looked it up and realized that what he'd seen was a fox. But if there had indeed been a fox in the yard, it had run off by the time Reena went to look. She'd never heard of any fox sightings in the town proper. But aside from a few jokes at dinner about wildlife passing through their backyard, the Songs had no further concern.

Then, items began to appear. An old-fashioned lantern lying outside in the yard. A rake that no one remembered buying. And one morning, Reena came downstairs to find a stack of plates in the kitchen that didn't belong to the family.

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Intertemporal: Describing any relationship between past, present, and future events or conditions. (source: Wiktionary)

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CREDITSStory: "The Mystery on Marigold Drive" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Silent walk" "Monochromatic stain" "Cold case" "Virtual reality" "Prisma" "Profiler" "Investigation day" "In search for (seamless)" "Unclassified" "Do or die"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A street map with a few labeled elements and denser detail in the middle, which shows a grid of streets. At top center is a green area labeled "Exeter Park." At bottom center is another green area, unlabeled. One of the streets curves down into a body of water labeled "Dragonfly Lake." Just outside the grid, in each other cardinal direction is a circle. The circles are labeled "Circle North," "Circle East," Circle West," and "Circle South," according to their position. Radiating out from the center of the map is a web of cracks or tears. One of these cracks terminates at upper right on a house symbol on a side street labeled "Marigold." Other parallel streets nearby are labeled "Olive" and "Park." The original image is a horizontal rectangle. Borders are added to the top and bottom showing faded portions of the map to make the final image square.

A woman seeking medical treatment for what seems to be a travel-related infection in her foot becomes involved in a grander mystery.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: "Is there such a thing as hallucinogenic moss?"

Seyyal raised her brows as she asked the question, and watched her cousin's fork freeze in mid-air. They were having their usual monthly brunch and catching up with each other. And Seyyal had already somewhat updated Yalanda about the subject that had been occupying her mind since she'd gotten back from vacation, her left foot.

Yalanda set her fork down and leaned forward. "Okay, am I about to get the real story about your vacation?"

What's the Word (that inspired the story)?Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: "The Cavern Traveler" Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)* "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)" "Slightly Across (No Percussion)" "Forest Bathing"

Music by LEE ROSEVERE "All the Answers" "Night Caves" "Featherlight (remix – vocals by Heather Feather)" "Decompress" "Thoughtful" "Waves of Sleep" "Baldachin" "Awkward Silences (version a)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrea Baroni is licensed from GameDev Market Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Black silhouette of a figure seen from the back standing at the mouth of a cavern. The mouth has a rough trapezoidal shape. Light shines into the cavern from outside. The cavern has smooth walls. Some trees and shrubbery are visible outside. To the left of the silhouette is a translucent mirror image copy of the silhouette. The two figures are connected and overlap at one foot, below which is aglow. The original image is horizontal and rectangular. A border was added at top and bottom to make the shape square. A version of the original image was magnified and color-shifted.