Storyfeather

A student fascinated with conjoined twins uncovers the lives of two brothers whom history only remembers as fortune tellers called Two-Man.

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: I didn't know much about conjoined twins, but when the professor in my embryology class mentioned the accident in cell division that led to the phenomenon, I remembered my first dream in life. Before I dreamt of becoming a Noble-prize-winning biochemist. Before I dreamt of meeting the love ofmy life. Before I dreamt about traveling the world. Before I dreamt about having a dog. When I was just a kid.

I remembered wishing I were a twin.

CREDITSStory: "Inseparate" 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 Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Crystal Caves" "Ancient Ruins" "Fire Dungeon"

Music by TRG Banks "Lake in the woods" "Father Green" "Goodbye Machineryhead" "Great Aunt Henrietta"

*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 is licensed from GameDev Market 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 Benjamin Carr at 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. A poster of twin men conjoined along the top half of their heads, so that they share an eye, but have separate noses and mouths. They are seen from knees up and hold their arms out in a flourish. They wear matching coats that flare just above their knees. Above them is a banner that reads "Two-Man." Below them are written the following sentences on separate lines: "They see into other worlds. They see into other times. They also make wood furniture." Below these lines is another text box that reads "Fortune Tellers."

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For as long as she could remember, Frieda had been haunted by a general trend of weirdness.

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: I'd lock myself up if I thought I was really a danger. I'd have myself committed to a psychiatric hospital. I would. To keep from hurting someone. I don't want it to come to that. But I'd do it.

CREDITSStory: "Flickering Frieda" 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)* "You Were Always in the Right Place" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart (no percussion)" "Forest Bathing"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 3 (Loop)" "Level 7" "Level 6" "Level 4"

*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 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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

Episode art description: Digital drawing. Two women at center, seen from waist-up. The woman at left faces forward and looks slightly to the right. The woman at right stands with her body facing back, but slightly turned to her left. Her face, seen in three-quarter profile, looks forward. Her eyes appear to be glowing. Behind both and above both are the silhouettes of hanging lights. The colors of the image extend into the top and bottom quarters of the image, which are borders added to make the whole image square. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A researcher studies a common-looking flower with an uncommon origin.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Does the flower remember who built it? Is it trying to tell me? Is that why I've kept having these dreams whenever I consumed the formula?

The dreams of the man who made the flower?

I never thought I would be one of those scientists who experiments on herself, but after all, it's just a bottle of flower juice.

CREDITSStory: "Panfloria Magnifica" 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 Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "You Were Always in the Right Place (no percussion)" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart (no percussion)" "Forest Bathing"

Music by TRG Banks "After midnight" "The silver bus" "Interchange"

*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 TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Andrea Baroni at 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: Scan of colored pencil drawing. Composite image. Right corner, flower with five petals, small figure sitting in center, and long leaves emerging all around. Left corner, a cluster of the same flowers, smaller, sitting at the base of a tree that lies along the left margin, its large wide leaves bending down. Left foreground, behind the flowers, a desk with a bottle of spilled liquid. A tiny figure sits at the front edge of the desk, facing forward. A woman in a laboratory coat stands behind the desk with her hands gripping either side, facing forward. She looks to the left (her right) at a tiny figure hanging from a tree leaf with her left hand. The tiny figure's right arm is bent, and her hand covers her face. Behind and to the right of the woman in the lab coat is a depiction of herself without the coat, her head tilted back, drinking liquid from the bottle that looks like the one on the desk. Behind and to the right of this is a depiction of the same woman with lab coat on again, facing away, looking at a projected image of a cluster of spheres, her left hand on her hip, her right hand pointing up at the cluster. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A magician creates for his empress a powerful elixir that can only work on one person, but the empress desires to share the power with her people.

Genre: Fantasy

Excerpt: It is said the magician imbued the empress's soup with a secret elixir that granted strength of mind, of body, and of character.

The soup had to be eaten once a day. Its effects would grow, until the one consuming it obtained powers that even the magician could not predict or fathom.

CREDITSStory: "Gammas Forever Soup" 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)* "Exploration Mystical Place (loop 1)" "Cue Nature 2" "Locations Medieval Tavern Song" "Battle 1 normal (loop)" "Battle 2 Evil (loop)"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Ice and Fire" "Medieval Theme 5 (Looped)" "Peace in My World (final theme)"

Music by TRG Banks "Lake in the woods" "Interchange" "Father Green"

*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 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 Albert Fernandez and Andrew Sitkov at 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. At center, bottom third, a man seen from waist-up, facing forward, sitting at a table. His gaze is cast down at a steaming bowl of soup. His right hand is holding a spoon raised to his open mouth. Right behind him is a glowing silhouette of a man with hands on hips, head in profile facing right. Behind and left, a tall woman stands with elegant decorations in her bound hair. Behind and right, an older woman stands holding a cane in front of her, one hand over the other, resting on top of the cane. Behind all are vague curtains swept loosely open. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A floundering molecular biology researcher is captivated by a seemingly common creature in a marine biology article…a sea slug.

Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt: "They live in the mysterious depths," I said. "The deep depths."

"That's pretty deep."

CREDITSStory: "The Mythical Slug" 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" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart" "Forest Bathing" "Fast Lanes Light Rain" "March of the Waking Lights" "NightTime" "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 Andrea Baroni is licensed from GameDev Market

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

Episode art description: Digital drawing. At center, a worm-like creature curled into a partial s-shape tilted to the left. The creature has two feathery antennae and thin spiny appendages along the length of its body. Behind the worm is another translucent wormy shape. Watermark of the word "storyfeather" lies over the image.

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A sheriff investigates the mysterious quakes that have beset her small town.

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: The rumblings were so quiet at first that official records conflicted on the date they actually started. People thought they were imagining them. They only happened at night. And they were only felt in their town of Acton.

Influences: Elements of this story are homages to one of my favorite movies from my youth, "Tremors." (Haven't seen in it a while though. Wonder if it holds up.)

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CREDITSStory: "The Brontide Beast" 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 Rafael Archangel "Persistence" "Smoke" "Deep Dive" "So Cold" "Persistence (With Beat)"

Music by Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Wasteland Ruins" "Mystical Forest"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Prisma" "Trust me" "Pitch black" "Deep lands (Part 2)"

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

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

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Benjamin Carr and Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by Rafael Archangel at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode art description: Digital drawing. At center, a range of hills with an opening and a path leading away. Behind the hills is a night sky shimmering with colors like a nebula or an aurora borealis. Above, glowing objects fall at an angle from upper right to lower left, like a meteor shower.

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In our first excursion into the greater cosmos, humanity may have stumbled upon an epic discovery, one so rare as to be mythical.

Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Did it give off useful energy, that dark glittering rock? Did it hide astounding beauty? Was it anything we could make use of?

Or should we let it be?

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CREDITSStory: "The Black Dwarf Star" 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 "The Nightmare" "Cosmic Drifting"

Music by Philipp Weigl "Like Starlight through a Veil"

Music by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "Fast Lanes Light Rain" "Forest Bathing" "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (no percussion)" "Cozy Afternoons"

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

Music by Lee Rosevere and Philipp Weigl is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by 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 at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by Philipp Weigl and Lee Rosevere at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode art description: Digital drawing. Foreground bottom, silhouette of figure sitting cross-legged facing forward on the very peak of a mountain. Behind the figure's head, centered, is a bright white sphere radiating light. Behind the white sphere, spreading from upper left to lower right is a wispy, netlike formation. Behind the formation is a giant glowing red sphere, set slightly to the left. Peeking from behind the red giant, to upper right, is part of a glowing yellow sphere. Behind all is the star-filled darkness of space.

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The crew of a salvage trawler comes upon a hundred-year-old satellite and must determine if it is a piece of space junk or a valuable artifact.

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt: "From this far out, it looks to be about…a hundred or so years," Jiang said. "Largely intact."

Thurston turned to her. "And no one else has claimed it yet? That's unlikely."

"What should I do, boss?" the pilot asked.

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CREDITSStory: "The Salvage of Core 925" 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 "Start the Day" "Decompress" "Everywhere" "Thoughtful" "Cosmic Drifting"

Music by Rafael Archangel "Thinking" "So Cold" "Deep Dive" "Forgotten"

Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket (part of music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.)

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

Episode art description: Digital drawing. View through the window of a spaceship. Support beams between the three main window panels angle away from center to edges of frame. At left a seated figure seen from behind and from shoulders up, right hand perched over a console with index finger out, as if prepared to press a button. At right, a standing figure seen in left profile from waist up, arms crossed and looking out at the object beyond the window. The object is a satellite with two dishes connected to a boxy central structure and two receiver antennae. Extending toward the satellite from somewhere out of right frame is a robotic arm.

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

A team dispatched to a tiny island to investigate the source of a strange signal makes an unexpected discovery.

Genre: Mystery, Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt: "That volcano was supposed to have consumed everything, including itself. But we're seeing something. Something is giving off enough of an energy signature for several terrestrial and even a few orbital detectors to register the signal."

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CREDITSStory: "The Caves of Hephaestus Island" 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 Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Ice Cavern" "Crystal Caves" "Ancient Ruins"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 1" Music by Lee Rosevere "Decompress" "Start the Day" "Here's the Thing" "Night Caves"

*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 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 Benjamin Carr and 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. The dark silhouettes of four people standing before a passage or opening inside a cave. Foreground, two partial figures from shoulders up at either edge of the frame. Mid-ground, two figures seen from mid-thigh up. The figure at left is holding up a flashlight. The light illuminates the stone walls of a cave. Above the figure at right flies at butterfly. To make the overall image square, the rectangular drawing is set in front of a glowing circle against a black background to give the illusion of a flashlight glow, whose arc is seen above and below the drawing.

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

A captain and her crew investigate the fate of those who set out on a mission to study an intriguing cosmic chemical.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: I heard someone calling…calling to me.

"Captain?"

Is it the voice of the woman on the other side of the airlock window?

"Captain!"

Or is it the voice of the ghost that's trying to possess me?

"Captain…"

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CREDITSStory: "Mission ICE 19" 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 Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Abandoned Spacestation"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Atmosphere Bounded Screams (Loop)" "Atmosphere Deep Dark (Loop)"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 7 (Loop)" "Level 2 (Loop)"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio) "Profiler" "Prisma" "The myst" "Unclassified"

*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, Nicholas Jeudy, Albert Fernandez and Chris Logsdon is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Benjamin Carr, Nicholas Jeudy, Albert Fernandez and Chris Logsdon at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]