The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

J Curcio
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  • Fiction
  • Semiweekly

Forgotten, forgetful gods (of a sort) walk among us. The Fallen Cycle Mythos is a serialized mythpunk fiction podcast created by James Curcio with a rotating group of creative collaborators. The larger transmedia project spans illustrated novels, comics, music, tabletop RPGs, and audio fiction. Each Cycle tells its own story within the larger mythos. For the full story, begin with Cycle 1, Tales From When I Had A Face. To start with Party at the World’s End, begin with Season 5. Discover more at FallenCycle.com.

  1. Episode 1

    "How To Disappear Completely" s6, e1 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Fiction Podcast

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. A single bulb swings in a hotel room that looks like a crime scene — which, more or less, it is.  Mike checked in as a freelance web developer; a week later he’s broke, strung out, cornered, and holding a small object that every cartel on three continents wants back. Every exit he reaches for falls apart in his hands. Then there’s a knock at the door...  Season 6 of the Fallen Cycle Mythos opens on the night Mike stops running from his life and looks for a way to cash in. A drug-soaked noir overture about debt, dumb luck, and the strange comfort of becoming no one, “How To Disappear Completely” is a new perspective into everything that follows. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  2. Episode 2

    "Wandering Stars" s6, e2 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Fiction Podcast

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Somewhere on the endless American interstate, a tour bus the size of a whale carries a band that is becoming something closer to a religion. Babylon plays for crowds that arrive like pilgrims, and behind the throbbing bass and the body paint, its members are starting to suspect their dreams are bleeding into one another — and into something far older. Meanwhile, a federal agent named Trevino sifts through the wreckage they leave behind, certain it adds up to more than bad music and felony theft. “Wandering Stars” follows the Fallen Cycle's mythpunk rock cult as it grows: live-television ambushes, desert initiations, and a prophet who talks about the apocalypse the way other people talk about the weather. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  3. Episode 3

    "Stray Bullets" s6, e3 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Fiction Podcast

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Not everyone riding with Babylon signed up for a religion. Some are just kids who ran out of other options, traveling in packs across a country that already failed them, doing what they have to. One of them is beginning to understand exactly what kind of thing she’s become part of — and quietly looking for the exit. When Lilith and Jesus peel off for a midnight joyride, a routine stop at a roadside diner turns on a single ugly word. “Stray Bullets” is about how violence finds the people who go looking for it and the people who don't — and how one tired federal agent learns that the cleanest way to hunt a movement is to invent the war you need to justify the hunt. Their gonzo roadtrip gets decidedly darker. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  4. Episode 4

    "The Birth of the Syndicate" s6, e4 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Fiction Podcast

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Rewind to 2007 — before the band, before the bus, before the bodies. A burned-out corporate infiltrator called Bradley the Buyer spends his days gaming the stock of the pharmaceutical giant that employs him, and his nights wondering why the whole world feels so deeply, structurally wrong. The answer arrives in a boardroom — and it’s a great deal stranger than he bargained for. “Birth of the Syndicate” is the origin story of the conspiracy at the heart of this story: one man’s terrible, brilliant idea that corporations are bodies, that bodies get cancer, and that a few well-placed cells can bring a giant to its knees. This is where the long con began — and where the “gods” get their funding. Audio Edition Credits This fiction podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  5. Episode 5

    "Rushmore" s6, e5 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Serialized Fiction

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. A heartbroken hitchhiker named Dennis just wanted a ride to Rapid City. What he gets is a stolen car and a one-way trip to the strangest gathering in America: Babylon, playing beneath the stone faces of four dead presidents, where Burning Man seems to have founded its own nomad nation at the foot of Mount Rushmore. “Rushmore” brings two opposing forces into the same valley at last, and something is about to break. Mythology and manifest destiny collide on profaned, once sacred ground. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  6. Episode 6

    "Dreaming Darkly" s6, e6 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Serialized Fiction

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. In a cold interrogation room, Agent Trevino finally has one of them across the table — and she could not be less afraid. Lilith answers his questions about plans and targets with stories about ant colonies and reincarnation and slowly turns the interrogation into something he never authorized and can't control.  “Dreaming Darkly” is the quiet center of the season: two people circling the same truth from opposite sides. A meditation on conscience, complicity, and the terrible logic of making a thing “look like a war.” Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.   This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  7. Episode 7

    "Retribution" s6, e7 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Fiction Podcast

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. They came to the Black Hills to bury their dead and make a last stand — and the desperate, the faithful, and the merely doomed came with them, thousands strong, turning a funeral into a final gesture.  “Retribution” is the firestorm the whole season has been driving toward: betrayal in the dark, sacrifice in the open, and a reckoning between hunter and hunted that doesn’t go the way anyone planned. What, exactly, does it take to kill a god? You won't soon forget how this one turns out. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  8. Episode 8

    "The 13th Step" s6, e8 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Serialized Fiction

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. “The 13th Step” is Dionysus’ final broadcast —  speaking to whoever’s still listening. He talks about Yukio Mishima, about the maize god and Osiris, about the strange arithmetic by which a man becomes a myth and the myth outlives the man who carried it. By now, he’s the last one left to tell it. This is the most interior passage of the season: a reckoning with sacrifice, story, and what endures once everything else is buried. If the myth holds true, Dionysus will return — and if it doesn’t, maybe the doctors were right all along. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny.  The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

  9. Episode 9

    "Gabriel's Epilogue" s6, e9 | Party At The World's End | Mythpunk Serialized Fiction

    We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Ten years after Babylon burned out, the man who taught them everything is signing books in a campus store. Gabriel De Leon — professor, occultist, reluctant prophet, last living witness — has spent a decade turning his student's story into a bestseller, and he’ll be the first to admit he isn’t sure how much of it is true. “We never know how much we’re living in a fiction.”  “Gabriel's Epilogue” closes Season 6 of the Fallen Cycle Mythos with a confession given during a long night train running into the dark, and the question that’s run beneath the whole story — were they really demigods, or just kids who believed hard enough to become a myth? In the end, is there even a difference?   This concludes season 6. Audio Edition Credits This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS.  “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions.  Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation. The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions. This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes. Explore More At FallenCycle.Com A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development.  Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right? Support Us On Patreon Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

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Forgotten, forgetful gods (of a sort) walk among us. The Fallen Cycle Mythos is a serialized mythpunk fiction podcast created by James Curcio with a rotating group of creative collaborators. The larger transmedia project spans illustrated novels, comics, music, tabletop RPGs, and audio fiction. Each Cycle tells its own story within the larger mythos. For the full story, begin with Cycle 1, Tales From When I Had A Face. To start with Party at the World’s End, begin with Season 5. Discover more at FallenCycle.com.

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