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An ordinary mouse was once chosen to receive a great honor that came at a great cost.

Genre: Fable

Excerpt: I could not see the edge of the knife, but I felt the promised bite of the blade at the base of my tail. Courage is a strange thing. For when you think you have it, you are wrong. And when you think you don't have it…you are wrong.

When I stepped ever-so-carefully onto that dais where the Ritual was to begin, I thought I had all the courage I would need.

I was wrong.

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CREDITSStory: "The Blinding of the Mice" 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 Mystery (loop)" "Holy Hymn (loop)" "Holy Gregorian Chant (loop)" "Exploration Cave (loop)" "Locations Medieval Tavern Song" "Locations Village (loop)" "Locations Court Song"

Music by Andrew Sitkov ((MuzStation Game Music)* "Medieval Theme 2 (Looped)" "Medieval Track #2 (looped)" "Medieval Track #1 (looped)" "Medieval Theme 3 (looped)"

*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

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A medical doctor, a supernaturalist, and a philosopher investigate mysterious tracks that appear in the snow.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: The three special investigators arrived a few weeks after the tracks were first seen. They each hailed from a different part of the country. Each had a different expertise. The supernaturalist. The medical doctor. And the philosopher. And each had been briefed on the happenings in the town.

But as was their practice, according to the root training that they shared, all three investigators sat in the mayor's office, and entreated him to tell them in his own words what was happening in his town.

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CREDITSStory: "Mysterious Tracks in the Snow" 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" "Ice Cavern"

Music by Andrew Sitkov ((MuzStation Game Music)* "Medieval Theme 5 (Looped)" "Ice and Fire"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Thoughtful" "Decompress" "Puzzle Pieces"

Music by Rafael Archangel "So Cold"

Music by Kai Engel "Snowmen"

*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 Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Music by Lee Rosevere and Kai Engel is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

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A mother uses myth to teach math and math to teach humanity to her three children.

Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Isra stood before the whiteboard in the drawing room, or as she called it after repurposing, the lesson room. Or as her three children had designated it, Room Seven. Their friends always talked about what room they were in, or how so-and-so teacher was in charge of a particular room number. So they wanted a room number.

Libby and Dom sat back in their seats, knowing what was to come because they recognized the prompt. They kept their notebooks open, but set their pencils down. But little Irene still sat in the "row" in front of her brother and sister, with her back straight and her pencil poised.

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CREDITSStory: "Lesson Number Undefined" 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" "Level 7" "Mystical Town (Loop)"

Music by Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Mystical Forest" "Ice Cavern" "Ancient Ruins"

*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 Benjamin Carr is licensed from GameDev Market

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Upon the insistence of a loved one, a person decides to undergo a life-altering elective surgery.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: She says that I have always lived in darkness. But I'm fine with it. I don't need the light. I don't even necessarily want the light. I'm not doing this for me.

I'm doing this for her. Because she wants me to see the world the way she sees it.

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CREDITSStory: "I Surgery" 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 "Cosmic Drifting" "Musical Mathematics" "Tech Toys" "Awkward Silence (version b)" "Awkward Silence (version a)"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Lyrics Voices #4" "Lyric Voices #3"

*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 Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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A finalist in a cookie contest recalls a classic locked-in-a-bakery-overnight dream for inspiration.

Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Finally, I am there. In front of the platter. I can smell the soft scent of vanilla and brown sugar circling around and through the overpowering scent of the chocolate. Butter, cocoa, milk. I reach for one of the cookies, and find that they haven't quite cooled all the way. There is just a touch of warmth left in them. And I know what that means.

So I begin to slowly split the cookie in half to watch the extravagant amount of chocolate chips and chunks pull apart in a satisfying melted ooze.

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CREDITSStory: "I Dreamed A Cookie" 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* "Whimsical Town" "Whimsical Town (Loop)"

Music by Jonathan Shaw* "Checking Inventory"

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

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Humorous Exploration (loop)" "Locations House (loop)" "Locations Happy Village (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, Jonathan Shaw, Andrew Sitkov, and Albert Fernandez is licensed from GameDev Market

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Note of Caution: Episode contains heartbeat sound effects.

The human heart becomes the supreme object of fascination for a race of artificial beings.

Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt: They are not our creations. We did not build the androids. They came from the stars, and when they began to trust us, they pointed to the sky and showed us which star. And when we began to trust them, we let them into our hearts.

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CREDITSStory: "When The Androids Asked For Hearts" 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 TRG Banks "After midnight"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 1" "Level 4"

Music by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "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 Andrea Baroni, Albert Fernandez, and Chris Logsdon is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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A scientist finds a unique egg and eagerly awaits the day it cracks open and reveals the mysteries within.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: Beneath the vault of the sky lies our entire world. We know there is more world out there, beyond the sky, but most of us will never see or know that world, not for ourselves.

We are contained within a shell of protection from the myriad forces and matters in the cosmos beyond that would most certainly kill us. Instantly.

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EPISODE CREDITSStory: "This Egg Is Not An Egg" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, 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)" "Fast Lanes Light Rain (No noise)" "Forest Bathing" "Ground Control" "You Were Always In The Right Place (No percussion)" "Forest Bathing (loop-intro)" "Fugue For One Synthetic Heart"

*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 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Lachenhut flew out toward the creature first. Overclock and Keo hovered in the air, at the ready, but hanging back as our red-capped leader had requested.

I watched it all through that little drone's cameras. Silly, I had called it, ever since Overclock overproudly announced he had built something for the team. And yet, Max Speed was there for his team, when I could not be. I was laid up at headquarters, my powers drained, while my team faced the biggest challenge they had ever faced together. Biggest, in every sense of the word. Trudging toward the city was a giant creature with the head of a fly and the body of…a person almost. All we could tell was that it was a living thing, not some kind of machine. And it had just appeared out of thin air in the eastern harbor and started making its way to shore.

A robot, a power-shifting merman, a redcap, a brilliant drone, and a strong-man who's lost his strength face the biggest threat their city has seen.

Genre: Science Fiction

Tags: Anodos City, chromollage, faere folk, Keo, Lachenhut, Lorgnon, Max Speed, Mister Sarcomere, Overclock, redcap

Literary Influences: I took the name Anodos from a fairy tale written by George MacDonald, Phantastes, in which the main character is a young man named…Anodos. I read the story long ago. I don't recall understanding any of the subtext. I just remember it as a story of someone wandering through another realm.

CREDITSStory: "Heroes of Anodos" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Heroes of Anodos" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

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

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "The Superiority" "Abstract Experimental Track #2 (looped)" "Unknown Terrain" "Dark Side" "Prepare for Battle" "Casual Arcade Track #3 (looped)" "A&C Percussion Loop #3 (Fast Version)" "A&C Percussion Loop #3"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Prisma" "Ghost hacker" "Paradigm" "Lost in the maze"

*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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Note of caution: This episode contains sound effects of real-world firearms (from minute 49 to end).

"I'll need the ether regulator. Hand it to me, won't you?"

"Umm…"

"It's the device with the controls for wireless manipulation of extraplasmic conductance."

The young journalist's eyes widened and though he was afraid to admit to the inventor that he did not know which one of the devices laid out on the laboratory bench was the ether regulator, he was more afraid of handing her the wrong device.

When Doctor Miratio checks her cabinet of past and future invention one day, she finds something amiss.

Genre: Science Fiction

Tags: Agnes Prester, healing machine, Miratio, molecular rifter, Prester, Raziya Miratio, Webb

CREDITSStory: "Doctor Miratio's Cabinet of Imminent Invention" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Doctor Miratio's Cabinet" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

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

Music by TRG Banks "Through the gravitational field" "Non-stop to Insideoutworld" "Cigar"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "The myst" "Prisma" "Trust me" "13 sins" "Investigation day"

Music by Chris Logsdon* "Level 2 (Loop)" "Level 4 (Loop)" "Level 6 (Loop)" "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 Nicholas Jeudy and Chris Logsdon 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 Nicholas Jeudy and Chris Logsdon at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

Over the last three hundred years, elaborate guesses have been made about the nature of the treasure aboard the Arcadian. It was only after news spread of the ship's loss to a freak storm as it passed through open and unclaimed seas that the rumors of what it carried began to spread along with the news of the wreck.

Captain Stella and his deep diving crew have just accepted a mission to recover an unidentified treasure from one of the most mysterious shipwrecks in history.

Genre: Science Fiction

Tags: Arcadian, Astrogleam, Captain Stella, Chief Officer Parker, Dr. Regis, pirate, seventh element, shipwreck, treasure

CREDITSStory: "The Lost Treasure of the Arcadian" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Captain Stella's Descent" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

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

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Undead crew" "Pirate attack!" "Here we go" "Sirens" "Shadow tunnel"

Music by Jonathan Shaw* "Treading the Unknown" "Afternoon Chat" "Lingering Evil"

Music by Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Labyrinth" "Underwater Temple"

*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, Nicholas Jeudy, and Benjamin Carr is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Benjamin Carr at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at jshaw.co.uk and gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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