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A young investigator must spend a set number of nights in a haunted house to earn a hefty inheritance.

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Excerpt: "You said it yourself. I'll keep it simple." Kay rose from her chair. "I will investigate thoroughly, find nothing paranormal, report my findings, and then…" She clapped her hands. "…I will collect that hefty inheritance, and perhaps even share a bit of it with my husband-to-be." She tapped a finger on the tip of his nose.

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CREDITSStory: "The Haunted Harpsichord" Copyright © 2018 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)* "Where Am I" "At night" "Dedale" "Witches" "Creepy doll" "Blood and bones" "Dark wonders" "Eternal life" "A dead heart" "The death of love"

Music by Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Ghost Town" "Deceitful Castle" "Labyrinth" "Forbidden Tower"

*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: Digital drawing. Statue of a crouching gargoyle facing forward, wings partly unfolded, sneering with mouth open, showing the outlines of sharp teeth. The eyes are hollow. The right spiraling horn is broken. Both arms are held before the bent legs, the right arm with fist pressed to the ground. The left arm is slightly bent, the hand holding what appears to be the hilt of a sword with a jewel dangling from the knuckle guard. The blade is missing.

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After closing his latest case, a private investigator who specializes in finding missing persons starts experiencing strange changes.

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Excerpt: "Can you put that out?" I asked through clenched teeth.

I was still hunched over the desk, but I could smell it. Her cigarette. It felt as if every particle of ash was boring its way up into my nose, past my eyes, into my skull. When she dimmed the lights, I'd been mostly suspicious and partly curious about what she had in mind. But now I was just thankful. Because it felt as if every pinpoint of light was focusing through the lenses of my eyes and drilling through my brain.

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CREDITSStory: "The Transmutation of Mister Lang" Copyright © 2017 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)* "Monochromatic stain" "Profiler" "Prisma" "Hunter's moon" "Black light (seamless)" "Black light" "Investigation day" "Genetic marker" "Unclassified"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 6" "Level 4" "Level 2"

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

Music by Chris Logsdon and Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Two figures, a man behind a desk, and a woman sitting in front of it in a small dim office. The man is sitting and bent over the desk. His hands are hairy. His left arm is bent before him on the table surface, lying over an open file. His right hand is pressed against the desk surface. His pointed ears protrude from his long hair. The back of his shirt is torn in three places, and hair protrudes from the tears. A desk lamp sits to the left. Behind him, at left, is a bookcase. Behind him, at right, is a window with blinds drawn, partly visible. Foreground, bottom left, a file cabinet is just visible with a label that reads "Case Files" with the "c" not visible and alphanumerics below it. The woman sits on a chair. She's seen from the back and her left profile. She holds her left arm on her lap. Her right hand is raised before her, holding a lit cigarette between her first two fingers. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A man overwhelmed by the good but stressful changes in his life wishes he could switch places with his reflection.

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Excerpt: "If only I could take your place," he said to her. And I felt my gut drop. I banged against the mirror's inside surface and I kept my gaze from straying to the darkness that surrounded me.

I would have given anything to keep my wife from feeling any pain when she gave birth to our children. But I could not have allowed Reflection to take her place.

I should not have allowed him to take mine.

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CREDITSStory: "The Unstrange Face in the Mirror" Copyright © 2018 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)* "What's going on" "The mirror" "Let me out" "An optimist turn of life" "Secret water" "Dark wonders" "Oinions" "For the rest of time" "For your smile" "The truth" "That's my wish for tomorrow"

*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 is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Scan of ink drawing. A man's fractured face from neck up seen in a cracked mirror. The shard at upper right shows half of his face in shadow, wide-eyed and mouth drawn. The shard at upper left shows half his face smiling. A shard at middle shows half his mouth frowning.

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Why and how are the world's bacterial species suddenly banding together?

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: "Ladies, gentlemen, rogues, and sundry, I implore you to focus," Greenfield said.

Doctor Greenfield, a microbiologist, was the northwestern region's representative in the newly formed International Research Consortium on the Planetary Biofilm.

She asked a simple question, a prompt really. "Do we know if the species that makes up this planetary biofilm is dangerous to humans? Or even to animals or plants? Is it infectious?"

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CREDITSStory: "Rise of the Prokaryotes" Copyright © 2018 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)" "You Were Always In the Right Place (no percussion)" "Ground Control" "Forest Bathing" "The Longest Year"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Genetic marker" "Learning punch" "Neon city" "The deal" "Cold case" "Pitch black"

*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 Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from GameDev Market

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrea Baroni at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Three people at right gathered before a monitor at left displaying the planet Earth. An inset on the monitor, seen at a bias displays a scattering of circles or spheres in front of a hazy mass. A few papers lie on the long table supporting the monitor. An office chair is pulled out from the table. A man at bottom foreground, seen from shoulders up, has his hand raised to his chin. Beside him, directly in front of the monitor, stands a woman with arm outstretched to point to the image. Beside her, and behind the pulled-out chair, stands another woman, right arm crossed before her, left arm bent with her hand covering the bottom of her face.

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An explorer gets lost in a spatiotemporal anomaly that was once the treasure vault of an alien pirate.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: It didn't seem like a fool's mission three months ago, this wandering into the deep unknown. Despite all our misgivings about plunging into a newly discovered spatiotemporal anomaly, the expedition seemed like it would be worth it. It seemed like an adventure I could handle when I was firmly wrapped in Landy's arms under a blue sky, standing on green grass.

CREDITSStory: "Anomaly Valley" Copyright © 2018 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" "The ocean takes it all" "To hell" "Haunted" "Deep" "Cold case" "Connecting dots" "Between two worlds" "Retrospective"

Music by ROZKOL "The World Has Moved On" "Fever Dream" "Ambient I-IV" "Go then, there are other worlds than these" "The Apotheosis of All Deserts"

*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 is licensed from GameDev Market Music by ROZKOL and Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Two figures. At left, a young man lies on the grassy ground on his stomach, his arms folded, his head resting on his left arm, seen from knees up, face turned forward, eyes closed. At right, another young man kneels before the other, looking down at him, his right leg folded up, hands resting lightly on the ground. He's wearing a backpack. The grass is purple and the sky is green. At top left, hanging in the air, are bright orbs with hazy glows. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over image.

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The passionate people involved with making movies at Plotz Hole Studios hail from all the many corners of the universe, and beyond.

Genre: Science Fiction

It's the 250th episode. Yay!

Excerpt: Martin Plotz glanced down at the photographs that Trudy had placed on his desk. He took a magnifying lens to one of them and bent over it. He frowned and glanced up at Trudy with the expression that she expected him to have on his face, annoyed but certain disbelief.

"Spider-snake?"

"Yes, the story comes from a reputable news outlet." Trudy flipped through her notebook.

"Let me guess, the Curious Cryptid Weekly?"

CREDITSStory: "The Plotz Hole" Copyright © 2018 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 #1" "Casual Theme #2" "Another World" "Space Discoveries"

Music by TRG Banks "Through the gravitational field" "Smooth jacket" "After midnight" "Keith in 1987" "Interstellar breakfast" "Cigar"

*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 is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A woman seen from the back, standing in a bar of light that extends from upper left corner to lower right corner of image. She's wearing a knee-length skirt and boots and a fancy top. The woman raises her right hand out toward a framed bright glass surface. The surface displays the light gray silhouette of a man, one hand reaching down to a small dog. Upper right, in shadow, some artwork hung on the wall. Below it, partly visible, is some raised surface like a bench or table.

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With his uniquely gifted voice, Nate tries to right a wrong by doing wrong.

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery

Excerpt: As it turned out, Nate was the real deal. When he sang, his voice was like honey and sunshine. The piano player joked that Nate's last name was a fitting one for a man who could make people cry waterfalls worth of tears, whether he was singing a happy and hopeful song or a sad and mournful one. It was Nate himself who cried the first time he read a glowing review in the papers. He'd regretted that his mother wasn't there to read it, to see that her pride and faith in him had paid off at last. The reviewer said that Nate's voice had the power to "unlock hearts." That word. "Unlock." It stuck with Nate.

CREDITSStory: "The Singing Safecracker" Copyright © 2017 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 Jonathan Shaw* "Thoughts" "Welcome to the Club" "Sinning Tavern" "Afternoon Chat" "Encounter of Misdeeds" "Lingering Evil" "Treading the Unknown"

Music by Rafael Archangel "Persistence" "Deep Dive" "Smoke" "So Cold" "Persistence (With Beat)"

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

Music by Jonathan Shaw is licensed from GameDev Market Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

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Episode art description: Digital drawing. At center, a man standing on a stage, seen from waist up, facing front and turned to the left (his right), dressed in a tuxedo, with a pompadour. He holds a microphone up to his face in his right hand. His mouth is open. To the right, along the frame, are two palm trees. Behind the man is a backdrop with a peacock tail design, arrayed around the man. Folds of curtains are seen along the top of frame. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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An unassuming artifact in a small museum might be a powerful mythical object from whence all sound arises.

Genre: Mythology

Excerpt: There was a sound; it was called the "keynote." And just as a keystone holds all other stones in place in an arch, the keynote held all other sounds in place in the world. The keynote was also the sound from which all other sounds emerged.

CREDITSStory: "The Thief of All Sounds" Copyright © 2018 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* "Stars above" "The bard" "A story untold" "Jesters dance" "The ritual"

Music by ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Musical Mathematics" "Awkward Silences (version b)" "Featherlight (remix – vocals by Heather Feather)" "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 Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from GameDev Market Music by ROZKOL and Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by ROZKOL and Lee Rosevere at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At center, a disc with a solid border, inside of which is a script that circumscribes the disc, and a figure in left profile from shoulders up, with pointed ears, mouth open, and eyes closed. A small sliver of the disc has broken off and is missing near top right. Small cracks are visible over the disc's surface. At the disc's base sit three snail shells. Flanking the shells are two birds. A duck in right profile sits in a puddle at left. A songbird in left profile is perched on a branch at right. The bird's head is turned away with beak open. Behind the duck is the funnel of a tornado. The original image is a rectangle. To make it square a border is added at top and bottom, rays of energy emanate from the background of the image and extend into these borders. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" lies over the center of the image.

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The smallest bird in the world embarks on a quest to recover a lost gift left to him by his mother…his true name.

Genre: Fable, Mystery, Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt:

The thunderbird. The trickster raven. The creator heron known as Benu.

He was in awe of them all. And he wanted to learn to acquire their qualities. Cleverness, strength, knowledge. And wings so magnificent that all creatures great and small were gripped with awe at their sight.

But whenever he would voice such longings, he was always ridiculed, for he was so small that all who knew him called him the flea bird, and soon that became his name, "Flea."

CREDITSStory: "The Flight of Flea" Copyright © 2018 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 Jonathan Shaw* "A Dream of First Flight" "Thoughts" "Afternoon Chat" "Midnight Creeping" "Checking Inventory" "A Fight in the Fields"

Music by TRG Banks "The silver bus" "Insideoutworld" "Above the Earth" "A Tale of Wind" "Horse ride 4" "Smooth jacket"

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

Music by Jonathan Shaw is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at jshaw.co.uk and gamedevmarket.net Find more music by TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode art description: Digital drawing. Composite image of various mythological figures associated with birds. Foreground center is a spark of light emitting a glow and a crown of tiny rays. Behind is a curled serpent with a frilled neck and tail facing right, representing Quetzlcoatl. Behind Quetzlcoatl, facing left, is a glowing silhouette of a bird with an ornate tail just visible and a flowing crest, representing the Phoenix. Behind the Phoenix, top half of image, center, is a humanoid figure wearing gold jewelry, with a bird's beak for a nose, outstretched wings, and eyes closed, making the praying hands gesture, representing Garuda. Behind all the figures is the hazy outline of mountains in the distance. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A girl is haunted by a mysterious voice that she can only hear through her headphones.

Genre: Mystery

Excerpt: She scanned his blueprints. She understood the math equations he had neatly written in his notebook, and some of the code he'd drafted. But she didn't really get how it all came together.

"What is it supposed to do?" she asked.

"Eavesdrop."

Vinnie raised her brows. "Listen in on them before they listen in on us?"

Marcus shrugged. "Something like that.

CREDITSStory: "The Lady in My Headphones" Copyright © 2018 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" "Ground Control" "NightTime (No Percussion)" "Forest Bathing" "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Sun and moon" "Investigation day" "Dark web" "()" "Ghost hacker" "13 sins"

*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 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Andrea Baroni and Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A girl seen from waist up, facing forward. She wears a pair of over-the-ear headphones and a hoodie with a star symbol on the front. Her right arm is bent up, her hand resting on her headphones. She's wearing a fingerless glove. Her eyes are wide and looking to the left, her mouth is parted, and her brows are raised.

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