The Randoverse

Old perspective. New eyes.

Written across years, from my childhood notebooks to late-night fragments, The Randoverse returns with a new collection of original short fiction about impossible neighbors, unexpected sweetness, distant friends, and the strange things we carry with us long after we thought we’d left them behind.

Some stories changed.

Some waited.

Some just needed me to catch up.

A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees continues.

New stories (to you). New sounds. New worlds.

Same impossible little universe.

The Randoverse: Volume Two.

Welcome back.

I’m glad you could make it.

-Jash Saunders

The Randoverse is an original fiction podcast blending short stories, speculative fiction, surrealism, magical realism, nostalgia, dark comedy, horror, science fiction, and immersive audio storytelling.

A man takes to the river with a few unlikely traveling partners.

The road ahead is rough. The water’s unpredictable.

But the company? Better than he expected.

The Prospect is a story about what happens when you head out looking for one thing and end up finding something else entirely.

🎵 Featured Song: Good Company — Jesse Waldman

Every Greek play has that one moment:

the stage still, the chorus watching, the hero stuck between choices.

That’s this story.

The moment that isn’t a moment at all. Just the wait.

🎵 Featured Song: Choo Choo Parker Rose by Cowboy Supernova

A man.

A bucket.

Nothing unusual, until the moment it is.

He isn’t searching for meaning.

He isn’t searching for anything.

But sometimes life taps you on the shoulder anyway.

Pails in Comparison is a quiet story about the instant something everyday tilts…

and you notice.

🎵 Featured Song: Small Town Pride — Nick Loux

I wrote West Wings in 2015, wanting to try my hand at a modern fable. Something simple on the surface, but carrying a small oddness underneath.

It follows a creature who ends up somewhere he never expected to be, carried by forces bigger than he understands, and changed in ways he won’t recognize until much later. A story about motion, chance, and the odd, wind-tossed places we sometimes land. And the feeling only home can bring.

This, is West Wings.

🎵 Featured Song: “Sloop John B” — HillTopTrio

A desk rests in the middle of a field. Untouched by time.

When I first wrote this story in 2010, I was experimenting with something more classical: long notes of description, soft edges, a bit of romantic prose inspired by the music I grew up hearing at home. I wrote it to feel like Little Bear meets a chamber piece. Simple, calm, and strangely alive.

This episode is an invitation to wander through that space: where wildflowers lean in, memory lingers, and even the ordinary can feel orchestral.

🎵 Featured Song: “Troy” — Lost In Japan

There’s a strange truth about kids:

they exhaust you, confuse you, test every nerve you have…

and somehow, sometimes, you still wish the days would slow down.

You don’t always know what to do with that feeling while you’re in it.

You usually understand it later.

This is my poem written for The Randoverse called “Steal Your Steps”

🎵 Featured Song: “Restless” — A. Wesley Chung

From The Randoverse —

Volume 1: A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees.

Written by Jash Saunders

Dedicated to my Mom, my Dad, my kids, and my Family.

There was something unusual about the mailbox at the edge of town.

It asked questions. Or rather, something beneath it did.

In this tale of strange interruptions and small awakenings, we explore what happens when routine meets curiosity… and whether you’re really listening when the world speaks.

🎵 Featured Song: “Change Takes Time” — Nick Kingswell

From The Randoverse —

Volume 1: A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees — by Jash Saunders

Three voices. Three eras. Three winters.

This intermission takes you on a quiet journey across seven centuries. From a medieval lament, to a wandering German poet in the seventeenth century, to an American winter in the 1800s. Each poem notices winter in its own way, but all three remind us that people have been trying to make sense of this season for a very long time.

Featuring:

• “Winter Wakeneth All My Care” — Anonymous, c.1325

• “On the Winter Journey” — Paul Fleming, 1630s

• “Snow-Flakes” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863

Each piece stands on its own, separated by a brief pause — a moment to adjust to the next voice and the next century.

🎵 Featured Song: “Born in the River” — Ziv Moran

From The Randoverse — Volume 1: A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees.

There’s a town nearly gone now.

It’s pond dry.

Its seasons confused.

Its memories scattered in strange little objects left behind.

At the rim of the dry pond sits a small figure who feels something familiar returning as a storm gathers in the distance. A pull toward a life it can almost remember.

A quiet, surreal story about time, loss, and the ways places come back to life.

Since I was young, tiny physical details have always felt emotional to me. Dust caught in sunlight, or the kinds of small moments I rushed past as a kid but feel strangely heavy with meaning when I look back now. That sense of retroactive significance shaped this story.

A huge thank-you to my friend and gifted songwriter, Justin Morgan, for allowing his beautiful track to be part of this episode.

Follow @insidepitchclub and @thisisjustinmorgan to discover more of his work.

🎵 Featured Song: “Drought of ’09” — Justin Morgan

From The Randoverse.