Storyfeather

An abandoned factory that was once filled with a life-saving technology is haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Back in the day, people called it the "organ factory." The irony is that we have actual organ factories now. Fabrication technology has spread farther than preservation technology ever did. But there was a time when all we had was organ preservation. A time when anyone who could extend the life of a donated organ by even just a bit could save lives that would otherwise have been lost.

And it was during that time that Alectrona Fabron invented the technology that made it possible to store almost any organ indefinitely.

CREDITSStory: "The Strange Chamber" 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" "March of the Waking Lights" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion loop)"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Song Visiting Her Forest" "Exploration Technologic Place (loop)" "Atmosphere Persecution Danger (Loop)" "Atmosphere Deep Dark (Loop)" "Exploration Dark (loop)" "Holy Hymn (loop)"

Music by Ficus ProSound* "Investigations (Full Version)" "Escape Room (Full Version)" "The Jigsaw (Full Version)"

*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, Albert Fernandez, and Ficus ProSound is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode art description: Digital drawing. Two figures. At right, a person seen from behind and the left side, wearing a hoodie, holding up a small black disc in the left hand, stands in front of a chamber seen at an angle. The chamber has clear walls, a woman lies on a pillow within, covered by a blanket from waist down. An opaque connecting section of the chamber obscures the woman's face. Below the clear walls, panels, buttons, and controls are visible. The acronym spelling the word "kiss" is seen along the top edge of the control panel. The inside of the chamber is bright, but the room is dark. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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When a small town is chosen by chance to receive a visit from the leader of the realm, they must present a great spectacle to show they are worthy.

Genre: Fantasy

Excerpt: The Sovereign is coming to our town.

We must have entertainments ready. We must have feats to display.

We must demonstrate the strength and wit and spectacle that she expects from her people.

We must do this all the more because we were not chosen for our merit. We were chosen by chance.

CREDITSStory: "The Chosen by Chance Dance" 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 Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Locations Happy Village (loop)" "Humorous Exploration (loop)" "Locations Medieval Tavern Song" "Locations Village (loop)" "Exploration Mystical Place (loop 1)" "Trailer 1" "Locations Court Song"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Casual Theme #2" "Casual Theme #3"

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

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

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Episode art description: Digital drawing. Four figures wearing dresses in various dance poses on a plain stage. The figure in the foreground appears to be mid-twirl. Her long hair flows behind her to the left. She wears a headband. Her left arm is bent above her head. Her right arm is bent and held up at shoulder level in front of her. Background left is a young girl also wearing a headband. She's standing facing left. Her right arm is held straight up. Her left arm is held straight in front of her. Background right is a woman with a ponytail, holding the same pose, only facing right. In front of her is a little girl who holds both her arms above her head, slightly bent. One of her feet is held on tiptoe behind the other. In the sky above them, there are bright sparkling lights. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A malfunctioning beauty product gives whole new meaning to the term "vanishing cream."

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: She was usually too tired to do more than close her eyes and sit through the commercials, telling herself that at some point, she should set up one of those systems that would allow her to skip them. And that's how she ended up hearing the commercial for Prosopokaf's Fusion Cream again and again…And that's how she ended up ordering a jar of the stuff, just to see.

CREDITSStory: "Prosopokaf's Fusion Cream" 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)* "Ground Control" "March of the Waking Lights" "Fast Lanes Light Rain" "Slightly Across (no percussion)"

Music by FicusProSound* "The Jigsaw (Loop 6)" "Investigations (Full Version)" "Following Clues (Full Version)"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 6 (Loop)" "Level 7 (Loop)"

*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, Chris Logsdon, and FicusProSound is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At center a head with short wavy hair seen from neck up facing forward. The facial features are absent. At left and right are square panels displaying heads with facial features representing people of different ages and complexions. All are facing and looking forward. Clockwise from top left, a little girl with a fair warm complexion and straight hair with straight fringe of bangs, a man with a light cool brown complexion and short cropped hair, a young woman with a darker warm brown complexion and short slightly wavy hair and bangs swept to the side, and an older man with a warm light brown complexion, cropped hair and a walrus moustache. The image is bordered with an alternating pattern of squares from center outward.

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When a terrible creature stalks a little boy's nightmares all the way into adulthood, he uses his imagination to summon an unlikely ally.

Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Horror

Excerpt: I woke up one day soaked in sweat, gasping for air, sobbing, and not knowing why my chest felt so tight and so cold. I watched my bedroom door, expecting my parents to rush in. They must have heard me screaming, I thought.

But I hadn't screamed or cried out in any way.

Something was stalking the hallways of the house in my dreams. The house that was my house but not quite.

CREDITSStory: "Hideous Horace and Beautiful Boris" 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 Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Mystical House (Short Loop)" "Mystical House (Looped)" "Story at Night (Looped)" "Evil is Near" "Ice and Fire (peaceful part)" "Hidden Fear" "Magic Within (looped)" "Secrets of Kingdom (looped)"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Deep lands (Part 2)" "Demon at the door" "Pitch black" "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 Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At center, two boys, who appear to be twins, seen from chest up, facing forward. The boy at left holds up his right hand, pointing forward. He appears worried. The boy at right holds up his left hand, palm down. A glow appears beneath his palm. His expression is inquisitive. Creatures surround the boys. From right to left, a creature that looks like a pig with long ears, head facing forward at bottom right corner. A creature that looks like three tubes with fluke-like mouths open. A creature that looks like a raccoon with five eyes curving around its snout, its head visible between the boys. A creature that looks like a gumdrop with a face, mouth turned down, eyes wide. A creature with a bird head and two spiraling horns at bottom left corner. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A sculptor working through a creative block notices something strange about the sculptures molded from a particular brand of clay.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: They say that a sculptor doesn't create what she sculpts. She only reveals what is already there in the medium. I was not finding that to be true. Either there was nothing to be revealed in the lump of clay that sat on the workbench before me, or I didn't have the skill that a real sculptor is supposed to have. The skill of sight. The skill to see what it is that is seeking to be revealed in the medium.

Come on, I thought. Reveal yourself.

CREDITSStory: "Cloaked in Clay" 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 ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV" "To the Water's Edge"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Start the Day" "Night Caves" "Under Suspicion" "Thoughtful"

Music by ROZKOL and Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A clay sculpture of a griffin looming over a man lying on the ground. The griffin, a mythological creature with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle, is seen from left flank, facing to the left, looking down at the man. The tail is curled into an "s" shape. The left wing extends at top of image, behind the tail. The right wing is curved down toward the man. The left paw, whose bottom part looks like an eagle's leg and claw, pins down the man at his waist and chest. The man raises an arm against the griffin. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" appears over the image.

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A mural painted by an anonymous artist inspires both dread and wonder.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: On the wall of a poorly kept apartment building was painted a vast mural of a forest in the midst of winter, the trees laden with snow, the ground, likewise. The sky a crisp and sharp blue. The mural had appeared overnight at the start of winter. And it had greeted me every morning since then. The first time I'd walked past it, I had stopped to gaze at it, and appreciate it. It was one of the few lovely sights I saw on my far-too-early mornings before I arrived at work.

But on that day, something new happened.

As we all stood and gazed at the mural, it…changed.

CREDITSStory: "The Eleventh Arm" 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 Chris Logsdon* "Mystical Town (Loop)" "Level 6 (Loop)" "Level 7 (Loop)"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Awkward Silences (version b)" "Featherlight" "Betrayal" "Featherlight (remix – vocals by Heather Feather)"

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

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

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At center, a woman seen from mid-calf up, standing and facing forward. She has eleven arms, all bare, ten emerging from her sides symmetrically, the eleventh bent across her waist from her right side. A different object or energy is held by or hovers over each hand. From top right clockwise, a five-petaled flower, a glowing orb, a drop of blood, a stylus or gouge, a lightning bolt, a wheel, a pen, a scroll, a rainbow flame, a pendant of a colorful eye. Above the hand of the eleventh arm floats a feather. The woman has long hair and wears a dress with an ornate collar and short sleeves. A watermark of the word "Storyfeather" appears over the image.

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An ambitious freshman believes her research project will uncover a hidden historical mystery.

Genre: Mystery

Excerpt: Sometimes a thing isn't good or evil in itself. The sequence is a thing like this. It becomes good or evil when you touch it. If you are good, it becomes good. If you are evil, it becomes evil. But we humans…we are both. What happens when we touch it?

Sam lay her fingers on the page where those words were written. The man who'd written them had been dead for almost a century.

CREDITSStory: "Sam and the Sequence" 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 Chris Logsdon* "Level 1" "Level 6" "Level 2" "Level 7"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Exploration_Dark (loop)" "Exploration_Technologic Place (loop)"

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

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Albert Fernandez and Chris Logsdon at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A young woman seen in left profile sitting on the ground in the aisle of a bookstore or library. She's looking down at an open book or magazine in her lap. Her left leg is stretched out. Her right leg is bent. On the bookcase opposite her, a tentacle descends from upper left. Silhouette of a shadowy little figure stands on the bottom shelf at bottom right. From the shelf just behind her, a book is pulled out with an image of a vampire lady's head on the cover. The suggestion of a shadowy figure peeks from the edge of the case in the background behind the young woman.

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One monkey's mischief alters the course of four other animals' lives.

Genre: Fable

Excerpt: Long ago, when the world was young, and in some ways smaller than it is today, and in other ways, greater than it is today, there happened a moment of mischief.

CREDITSStory: "The Serpent Who Sang Like a Bird" 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 Lee Rosevere "Early Morning Song (Finch Duet)" "Under Suspicion" "Puzzle Pieces" "Heat Haze" "Curiousity" "Snakes" "The Secret to Growing Up"

Music by TRG Banks "The silver bus"

Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Lee Rosevere and TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Three animals sitting on branches amid vines. At left a colorful snake is coiled over a thick branch. To the right, a monkey. And between and just above the two, a bird is perched on a thinner branch. The monkey, the bird, and the branches are all colored gray. The vines are green.

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A woman caught in the middle of an ecological attack becomes a subject of interest for the group who is responsible.

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: Chloe glanced again at the handsome man who was lingering at a sculpture. The sculpture was a caryatid, a column shaped like a woman, in this case, a celestial being. He gazed up at the stone carving of the heavily robed Herald of the Gods. The Herald too seemed to gaze down at him. She pointed up to the heavens with a hand that held a scroll, the scroll upon which was written the spell that brought the world into being.

CREDITSStory: "Neotrillium" 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)* "NightTime (No Percussion)" "March of the Waking Lights" "Forest Bathing"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Awkward Silences (version a)" "Snakes" "Heat Haze" "I Bet You Wonder Why" "Decompress" "I Believe in You"

*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 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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

Episode art description: Digital drawing. Foreground, bottom left corner, a woman seen from the back, shoulders up, wearing a tank top. Her face is turned down and to the right, and her hair is swept over her left shoulder, so she could look at a tattoo on the back of her right arm. In front of her is a caryatid statue of a woman draped in voluminous robes tied at the waist, facing downward. Her raised left arm is bent back, her hand propped under a column behind her. Her right arm is raised straight up. Her right hand holds a scroll, and her index finger is pointing up. A large sphere is set on top of the column. Right above the statue's head, vines sprout from a central spot. The vines entwine the sphere, drape down, and reach out in all directions, some moving off frame. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A brilliant architect impresses an ambitious aristocrat with more and more wondrous constructions.

Genre: Fairy Tale

Excerpt: So charmed was the aristocrat that by the end of their discourse, he began to speak familiarly with the architect, as he would only typically do with a young man of his own station.

He challenged the architect—dared him even—to build a magnificent monument to him from the twigs and branches on the floor.

CREDITSStory: "The Architect and the Aristocrat" 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 TRG Banks "The silver bus" "Lake in the woods" "Father Green" "Packed lunch" "Swanhead"

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

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Episode art description: Digital drawing. A tree with a tall trunk and a bushy top, sprouting branches, and scattered six-petal flowers. One flower at top right glows. A wooden spiral staircase curls around the trunk, which appears to be patched with plates attached with rivets. Wiry tangles hang the whole length of the trunk. The hazy shapes of plateaus and a tower on the right appears in the background. The silhouette of a small figure stands at the foot of the staircase. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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