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Latest Episodes

“Rose” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
May 04, 2017

Hey guys! All I’m going to say about this one is it’s about an old lady named Rose. And it’s another one that’s barely science fiction. And it’s shorty. That’s it. Here we go. Enjoy!

“Tick Tick Tick” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
April 06, 2017

Last week I got a tick on me, and of course I freaked out, and did the whole doctor thing, they have to check your blood, check the tick, etc. And I started thinking: here’s this tiny little thing, hardly even there,

“Out of the Blue” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
March 03, 2017

Hey, Rob here. I just read an article in The New Yorker titled “Did the Oscars Just Prove That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?” about the recent spate of odd or unlikely occurrences, and it was full of awesome “what if?

“Purgatory” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
February 06, 2017

I don’t want to give anything away before you listen to this next story, so I’ll just set it up by saying our protagonist, Tom, is a desperate guy, at the end of his rope, and that the end of that rope might not be as cleanly cut as he expected.

“Horatio Breathed His Last” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
January 03, 2017

Horace Cho is the author of the way-too-popular science fiction series The Horatio Chronicles. After over thirty novels in the series, Horatio the Hero begins to take on a life of his own. Harmless, right?

“Quick Fix” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
December 07, 2016

This story was originally the pilot for a new low-budget sci-fi TV series called Quick Fix – sort of a mashup of Quantum Leap, Star Trek, and little bit of Where the Hell is Tesla? thrown in. What happens when two routine,

“November 8” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
October 27, 2016

I think it’s easy in the 2016 election to get obsessed with the news, and all the ups and downs, the role that technology and the media play now – and I have for sure. So I guess it’s seeping into my subconscious,

“End Game” • Written and Narrated by Rob Dircks
September 20, 2016

The phone felt heavy in Mark’s hand. Laden with possibility. Packed with enough distractions to get him through the weekend at his in-laws’ lake house up in Fleming. It would provide his escape from their incessant growling at each other,

“Today I Invented Time Travel” • Written & Narrated by Rob Dircks
August 31, 2016

Before the short story, I have to give you the setup: I was so excited to be invited to the Queens Library Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author's Evening (reading from my novel Where the Hell is Tesla?) that I decided to write a short story just for the night.

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