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Novella Noir — where short-form fiction casts long shadows. Original, gritty audio dramas inspired by classic noir. In these stories, morality blurs, justice is crooked, and no one walks away clean. If you’re drawn to doomed souls, dark cities, and tragic choices, you’re in the right place. These are tales where the only truth is the one you can’t escape.

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    Novella Noir | Placebo Effect | Noir Audio Drama

    Corporate Noir In the decaying neighborhood of the Flats, pharmacist Carmen Reyes survives on "willful blindness" and the rhythm of counting pills—until the medicine itself begins to fail. When patients start dying from what looks like a manufacturing fluke, Carmen uncovers a conspiracy that transforms her from a cynical observer into a target of the very system she serves. In a world where profit margins are measured in heartbeats and hope is a liability, Carmen must decide if the truth is worth the price of her own survival.

    32 min

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    Novella Noir | Five Star Rating | Noir Audio Drama

    Tech-Noir Marcus Webb is a man drowning in debt and disillusionment, navigating the rain-slicked streets of a city that has already chewed him up. When a mysterious "Black Tier" opportunity flashes on his RideNow app promising a life-changing payout, the desperate driver accepts a high-stakes delivery with no questions asked. But in a world of neon shadows and shifting loyalties, Marcus soon discovers he isn’t just hauling cargo—he’s a pawn in a lethal game. As the lines between survival and soul-crushing compromise blur, he must decide the ultimate cost of a perfect rating.

    42 min

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    Novella Noir | Dead Pixel | Noir Audio Drama

    Tech-Noir In the sterile, high-tech corridors of Meridian Heights, security drone pilot Kara Webb spends her shifts monitoring a "smart" utopia where every smile is tracked and every street is sanitized. But when she spots a flickering black square—a "dead pixel"—over a powerful politician’s eye, the flawless digital veneer begins to crack. Her pursuit of the truth leads her from gleaming towers to the city’s decaying analog underbelly, forcing a desperate choice: accept a life-changing bribe to ignore the glitch, or risk everything to expose the digital ghost haunting the machine.

    41 min

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    Novella Noir | Architect's Flaw | Noir Audio Drama

    Hardboiled Noir Thomas Carver was an architect who touched the sky until the Riverside Tower collapse buried his reputation under twelve bodies. Now a disgraced alcoholic living in the shadows, he is offered a chilling "second chance" by a smooth-talking developer with ties to the Russian mob. The mission: design a luxury skyscraper with a lethal structural flaw buried in its foundation. Caught between a multi-million-dollar redemption and a mathematical death trap, Carver must decide if he will build a monument to his greed or finally find a line he won't cross.

    50 min

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    Novella Noir | Last Supper | Noir Audio Drama

    Hardboiled Noir Marcus Webb was a rising star in the culinary world until gambling debts turned his life into a slow-burn disaster. Desperate to escape collectors, he accepts a high-paying, "discreet" catering gig in the city’s industrial heart. But in a kitchen with no windows and top-tier gear, the ingredients don't come from a farm. Marcus soon discovers he isn't just cooking for the elite; he’s a vital gear in a macabre machine of political vengeance. To save a friend, he must master the ultimate recipe for survival.

    36 min

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    Novella Noir | Exit Interview | Noir Audio Drama

    Corporate Noir Caroline Vance is a "professional executioner" for Meridian Industries, specialized in the cold art of terminating high-level careers. Her detachment shatters when she discovers a lethal pattern: every executive she fires who has knowledge of a toxic company secret ends up dead within forty-eight hours. Now, as she prepares for a final interview with a marked man, Caroline must choose between her own survival and the blood on her hands in a system designed to silence anyone who asks questions.

    44 min

  7. JAN 5

    Novella Noir | The Adjuster | Noir Audio Drama

    Psychological Noir For eight years, insurance claims investigator Sarah Vance has been catching frauds and certifying natural causes with professional detachment—until her supervisor shows her a statistical impossibility: seventeen consecutive natural deaths, all elderly clients of the same estate management company, all signed off by Sarah herself. But as Sarah digs deeper into what might be a serial killer whose perfected murder by making it invisible, she faces an impossible question: Is she uncovering the truth, or is she destroying an innocent man because she can no longer trust her own judgment?

    27 min

  8. JAN 5

    Novella Noir | Mosaic Shard | Noir Audio Drama

    Mediterranean Noir In the decaying port of Kalamos, aging fisherman Kostas Makris has survived thirty-seven years by perfecting one skill: seeing nothing. When he witnesses a murder on the docks and stays silent, he expects the incident to fade like all the others—but the killer returns to thank him, and Kostas finds himself drawn into a web of antiquities smuggling that runs from the warehouses he's ignored for decades all the way to Athens.

    33 min
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Novella Noir — where short-form fiction casts long shadows. Original, gritty audio dramas inspired by classic noir. In these stories, morality blurs, justice is crooked, and no one walks away clean. If you’re drawn to doomed souls, dark cities, and tragic choices, you’re in the right place. These are tales where the only truth is the one you can’t escape.

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