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Follow along as Ishmael works his way through the ranks as an interstellar merchant mariner from the lowest quarter share until he finally earns an owner’s share at the helm of his own company. Along the way he finds a new family, a sense of purpose, and - eventually - himself.
In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman at a book signing. As he recovered in Harlem Hospital, he was visited by an old family friend and Black mystic, Howard Thurman. Their conversation changed the course of Civil Rights history. It was gripping, global, and highly personal.
18 years after the Outbreak, the world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, but many different forms of humanity are still struggling to survive in the aftermath. And deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting.
An unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is true.
For years, Hero Trackers has covered the biggest news in the world of super powered heroics. What we didn’t know—some of the most influential cases all had one thing in common: Vigil. Join us as we uncover who Vigil was and the impact he had on some of the most well-known supers of our age.
A solar eclipse altered the DNA of all human beings in the 1850s and made Black people “unkillable”. Mirabelle, a young black woman, finds herself in a world of supernatural powers fighting the forces of evil to deliver the oppressed into a new age of peace.
Waking up with no memory was just the beginning of her journey…
A social media influencer has mastered the art of uncovering her Internet trolls’ darkest secrets and exacting her own brand of karmic justice. As her journey continues, the line between control and chaos blurs, raising one chilling question: who is really in control?
Follow young wheelchair-user as they navigate their first day as a guide for “Funcouver Bus Tours”. She struggles to stick to the “Funcouver” script when so much of “Canada’s most wheelchair-accessible city” is still so incredibly inaccessible.
150 years ago, the S.S. Cumberland disappeared in the Pacific Northwest. A lifeboat from the ship with four skeletons inside just mysteriously showed up in Marrow Passage. Reporter Daisy Bonham attempts to solve the mystery and find out what other secrets are lurking just below the surface.
Chartrulean was to be the messiah, but he abandoned a life of piety to become what the world needed: a shipbuilder. He helped end a war, but mysterious forces infect his ships, driving him mad. All amidst a delicate game of politics. He is torn between those he trusts and the gods he’s angered.
Phil, 54 and deeply sad, is preparing for the annual hunt. For hundreds of years, the men of his family have led a march in to the woods in search of a mystical pig-like creature. But for Phil it is a time for reopening old wounds and coming face to face with the reason for all his sadness.
A Space Horror series in the vein of DEAD SPACE and EVENT HORIZON, THE VESSEL features a large cast of characters aboard a massive spacecraft. The ship begins to experience strange attacks shortly after one inhabitant is woken from cryosleep.
When he discovers something beneath the static of the worlds’s communication network, an unnamed Observer begins to catalog and record the strange signals that should not exist…
A long-time dweller of the London sewer system has discovered a unique way to become intimate with his high-rise neighbours: listening to their innermost secrets through plug holes, drainpipes and washing machine fittings. They all have one thing in common - they are desperate for connection.
A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a mysterious cult. A mind-bending mystery/thriller from Cryptic Radio.
If you want a person dead, you call a hitman. If you want a monster dead, you call Lincoln Franks. But you better be able to pay the price he asks because Lincoln gets that paper — pay to slay, bitches.
When Peace of Ship opens a new HQ in Brazil, Jemma finds herself in new territory: Interim Head of HR. Her first task? Hire a new CTO. That is, until one candidate ends up dead. Now she must find the killer to save the company. What could go wrong?
An audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas.
What happens when you lose something you thought you’d always have? What happens when it's one of your senses? Bet Kline is deaf. That wasn’t the case a year ago. Now that her life has been upended, she has to figure out how to carve out a new path for herself and navigate her way down it.
Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you.
Son wakes up aboard a spaceship bound for earth in an effort to recolonize. What he discovers, however, will change everything he knows about his world and himself.
Meaney and Llewellyn are cadets in Lead Service, an organization established to police and protect the ever-expanding multiverse. They soon learn that things don’t always go by the book. JUMP LEADS is a science fiction comedy audiodrama series based on the webcomic of the same name.
Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.
They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure.
On a lonely highway between life and the next life there’s one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station serves travelers as they embark on their journey through the celestial spheres.
Follow a Christmas-loving single dad who gives in to his daughter’s request for a certain elf toy - you know the one - and finds himself face to face with an evil he could never have imagined.
A part-time mall Santa who really hates Christmas shouldn’t be working today, but he is. And he’s about to meet a terrible child who will ruin everything. This is not going to end well. But what’s about to happen, isn’t the worst thing he’s ever done…
Invited to document her genius sister's new invention–-a machine that records dreams–Kay can’t resist. How could she know her sister believes there’s something alive in dreams. Something that holds the key to the tragedy that tore them apart seven years ago. Something that can scare them to death.
An orphan with nothing left to lose braves the treacherous desert in order to become a mystical bullet catcher. But when she uncovers a shocking secret, she is propelled on an unexpected journey of grit, purpose, and searing hot vengeance.