Storyfeather

After death, some souls go to reward and some to punishment. Then there are the ones who just need to do some "community service" to atone for minor wrongs.

Joe is a spirit tasked with counting the breaths of the living, but his new apprentice isn't content with just counting.

Genre: Fantasy

CREDITS

Story: "The Accountant of Breaths" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Editing, Episode Art: Nila L. Patel

Music:

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

Music by Kai Engel "Snowmen"

Music by ROZKOL "Palaver"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Cosmic Drifting" "Curiousity" "Tech Toys" "Universe Calling" "I Bet You Wonder Why"

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

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, and ROZKOL at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

"We're fascinated by cats, aren't we? Cats on the internet. Pictures, videos, memes. Cats in our homes. Ancient civilizations shaped statues of cats out of gold, ebony, and bronze. They have been associated with magic, with evil. They sometimes seem aloof and uncaring. Sometimes charming and playful. Sexy. Dangerous. Mysterious."

The man in the cerulean blue suit at the front of the lecture hall paused. "Cats."

Cats…so mysterious. One minute they care about humans. The next minute they don't. An ancient myth might shed some light on this mystery. A rare myth about how cats were the first beings to possess intelligence and consciousness.

Hear all about it in this episode.

Storyfeather Shared Universe: This story shares details and concepts with a Season One story called "The Last of the Nine Lives Cats."

Weird that I write so many stories about cats. I consider myself a dog person.

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Mythology

CREDITS

Story: "The First Days of Moonlight" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Editing, Episode Art: Nila L. Patel

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

Music by ROZKOL "Palaver" "Ambient I-IV"

Music by Lee Rosevere "You're Enough (version a)" "Not Alone" "The Nightmare" "Slow Lights" "Baldachin" "All the Answers"

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

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

I wasn't afraid it would hurt me on purpose. But I was afraid of it in that way that one is afraid of a mountain or a dark forest, or any force of nature that is immense and unknowable.

Mira is a contract field investigator, and her job is to investigate the strange and the otherworldly. When planning her vacation, she stumbles upon something even stranger than a ghost, alien, or fairy.

What is it that she's found? You can find out in this episode.

Genre: Fantasy

Storyfeather Shared Universe:

The character of Mars Dietrich recurs in a few other podcast episodes. He was first introduced in the Season One episode entitled "Nocturnal." He is also a main character in Season Two's "Olatrogon."

This episode makes a minor reference to events from the Season Two episode entitled "The Rainheralds."

CREDITS

Story: "The Waters Are Deep" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Editing, Episode Art: Nila L. Patel

Music:

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

Music by Lee Rosevere "Thoughtful" "Start the Day" "Under Suspicion" Music by TRG Banks "After midnight" "Cigar" "Lake in the woods" "Horse ride 4"

Music by Nctrnm "Parade"

Music by Komiku "Frozen Jungle"

Music by ROZKOL "To the Water's Edge"

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

Music by TRG Banks and Komiku is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net

Find more music by Lee Rosevere, TRG Banks, Nctrnm, Komiku, and ROZKOL at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com

Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

Ever since humanity has taken to the sky, there have been forces at play that seek to bring us back down to the earth. And forces at play that aim to keep us airborne.

The Chief Engineer of a ship on a mission of exploration discovers deliberate malfunctions and a surprising source of sabotage.

Find out what the engineer discovers and what it means in this episode.

Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction

CREDITS

Story: "The Singing King" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by TRG Banks "Insideoutworld" "After midnight" "Non-stop to Insideoutworld"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Universe Calling" "Cosmic Drifting" "Tech Toys" "Thoughtful" "How I Used To See the Stars"

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

She was never seen. Neither face nor form. Some say it was because she was so beautiful that the queen and king feared she would inspire terrible and unrelenting envy. Others said the opposite was true. She was hideous, deformed. She was never heard. Neither wit nor word. Some said there was no princess, and therefore, no suitable heir. For the queen and king had had another child, but he was only a son.

High up in the mountains live an extraordinary people who deserve to be ruled by an extraordinary ruler. Who are the people? Who is their ruler? What is their story?

Find out in this episode.

Genre: Fantasy

CREDITS

Story: "The Sovereign of Bevoneberg" Copyright © 2015 by Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

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

Music by Philipp Weigl "Like Starlight through a Veil"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Featherlight" "It's A Mystery" "Decompress" "Snakes" "Not Alone"

Music by Philipp Weigl and 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 TRG Banks, Philipp Weigl, and Lee Rosevere and at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

I was tired. My eyelids felt heavy and they burned a little. I hadn't slept well again. I wanted nothing more than to lie down. But I couldn't sleep and maybe wouldn't unless I started making progress, real progress, in making sense of my senses.

A patient recovering from brain surgery experiences extraordinary aftereffects to his sensory perception. What are these aftereffects? And can he trust his perceptions?

Find out in this episode.

Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction

CREDITS

Story: "Mortesthesia" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by ROZKOL "Fever Dream" "Palaver"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Knowing the Truth" "Start the Day" "I Bet You Wonder Why" "It's a Mystery" "Thoughtful" "Betrayal" "Places Unseen"

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

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

The king was cruel, both to his daughter and to her suitors. For he was not content for her to be wooed by gifts or by lineage. He devised a contest, a deadly contest, for all who wished to try and win the princess's hand. She would one day be queen of a rich and prosperous realm by the sea. And the one who stood by her side would share in those riches and that prosperity

A humble wood-carver is a prince's proxy to face a deadly contest to win the hand of the mysterious princess of the kingdom-by-the-sea. Will he succeed? Or will he fail?

Find out in this episode.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy

CREDITS

Story: "The Prince's Proxy" Copyright © 2015 by Nila L. Patel

Music:

"Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by ROZKOL "The Apotheosis of All Deserts" "Palaver" "Cold Breath in the Alleyway"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Under Suspicion" "Waves of Sleep" "Snakes" "I Believe in You"

Music by Komiku "Sad walk with sad melodica" "Frozen Jungle" "Tension"

Music by ROZKOL and Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by Komiku is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

The lady was born with fingernails the color of blood.

All the men wore beards in the far, far south where the town lay covered in snow for half the year.

A highborn lady's unusual birthmark and a young lord's unacceptable facial grooming habits form the basis for common practices. Red nail polish and mustaches. How did they come to be?

Find out in this episode.

Genre: Fantasy

CREDITS

Story: "Two Tales of Twisted Tradition" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel

Music:

"Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by TRG Banks "Packed lunch" "Lake in the woods" "Horse ride 4" "The silver bus" "Father Green" "Goodbye Machineryhead"

Music by ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV"

Music by ROZKOL 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 TRG Banks and ROZKOL at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

Sally had been blindfolded and brought to a few different "undisclosed locations" because the sites that held the instrumentation needed to study him needed to remain confidential. So he didn't even ask where they were. She wished he had. She would have told him, even though she'd been instructed not to.

He deserved the truth about his condition. And he deserved to hear it from the person who had pried the most into his life.

Twenty years ago, a sailor lost at sea answered a dare, and to this day, he is haunted by the aftereffects. What really happened to him?

Find out in this episode.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Storyfeather Shared Universe: Turns out the title character of this story has a direct link to a story from Season Two, "The Midnight and the Derelict." Please, check out that story if you like this one.

CREDITS

Story: "The Song That Haunted Sally" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel

Music:

"Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Cosmic Drifting" "Waves of Sleep" "It's A Mystery" "Night Caves" "Universe Calling" "Heat Haze" "All the Answers"

Music by Nctrnm "Parade"

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

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

People hire me to find things for them. I have a special skill that may not seem like a big deal at first blush, but if you think about, you'd realize just how useful it can be. Like now. I don't have a gun. I don't know how to fight. But I'm on the run from guys who seem to have more firepower than the army. And so far, I'm staying a step ahead of them. And it's all because of the nose.

When a man gifted with a keen sense of smell is tasked with finding a stolen item, he finds something even more extraordinary than his gift.

Find out what he discovers in this episode.

Genre: Mystery

CREDITS

Story: "Bloodhound Brody" Copyright © 2016 by Nila L. Patel

Music:

"Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions

Music by Rafael Archangel "Persistence" "Deep Dive" "Thinking" "Smoke" "So Cold" "Persistence [With Beat]"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Slow Lights" "Curiousity" "Heat Haze"

Music by Lee Rosevere and ROZKOL is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License

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

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]