A wellness influencer goes live during an FBI siege. There's allegedly a body under her meditation hall. She has one night to tell you the truth.LIVE (Part 1 of 4) is the opening story of THE SERIAL PORT, a weekly serialized horror fiction podcast set in the Continuity Constellation. Episode 01 of 48 in Season 1, The Context Modification.▸ ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe federal police are at the perimeter. The helicopters are up. The OG members of the Glow are in the rooms next door. The most-watched woman in the country has pinned her phone to a vent stack and gone live, and what she's about to broadcast over the next seventy-five minutes is not the influencer-confessional her followers signed up for. She's going to talk through the production rooms her devotees worked unpaid. She's going to talk about a senator. She's going to talk about a floor. By the time her stream cuts, hundreds of thousands of people will have watched the last hour of her life unfold in real time.Part 1, "The World and the Witness," covers the first thirty minutes of the broadcast. The siege has started. The chat is filling. The story she's about to tell begins long before the gunfire in the basement of the internet, with a corrupted file of her own laugh, and a door she once mistook the sound of closing for applause.▸ CONTENT NOTESLIVE is a horror story about cult formation, the parasocial economy, and the cost of building a self that can only exist in front of an audience. Contains: violence and gunfire, depictions of cult dynamics, references to historical predation (off-page, treated with restraint), strong language, and one woman's decision to step off a roof in front of nearly a million people. Adult listeners. If you've ever watched a livestream and wondered what the streamer was doing on the other side of the camera, this is the story for you.▸ ABOUT THE SERIAL PORTThe Serial Port is a weekly serialized audio fiction project. Season 1, The Context Modification, runs twelve interconnected horror stories across forty-eight episodes, one new episode every week for a year. Each story is roughly four parts; each story stands alone. Together they map a world fifteen to seventy years past the technological line where consciousness can be backed up, attention can be tuned for effect, and people who used to be wellness creators have become something new.You can listen to The Serial Port free on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack. The illustrated transcripts publish alongside the audio for readers who want both.▸ ABOUT THE CONTINUITY CONSTELLATIONThe Continuity Constellation is a long-form speculative fiction project of novels and an ongoing serial across a three-hundred-year timeline. It's about the gap between what humans can do and what they know they consent to. Among the novels in progress: The Continuity Protocol, The Grey Corner, The Social Grimoire, the K-AI-TE Paradox, and The Trust Hallucination. The Serial Port is the public-square companion, the people on the ground while the macro forces work above them.LIVE sits early in the timeline. The woman you're listening to is one of the first people outside the to discover a secret that by the time her stream cuts, the world will have watched her change the rules.▸ ABOUT THE AUTHORA. J. Wiadrowski writestheir own brand of 'wifi-horror' and science fiction in the long shadow of Catriona Ward, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Adam Nevill, Hugh Howey, and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Currently building the constellation. Currently writing the next thing.▸ WHERE TO FIND MOREIf Part 1 lands, Part 2 drops next Wednesday and Parts 3 and 4 follow weekly after that. The story closes one month from now. The next story opens the week after that. Subscribe so the algorithm doesn't keep it from you.The Continuity Protocol (Book 1 of the Constellation), available on Kindle and Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Continuity-Protocol-J-Wiadrowski-ebook/dp/B0H2V5N7DV/Substack: https://continuityconstellation.substack.com/Spotify: If the chat in this episode does anything for you, if a handle on the screen feels uncomfortably like yours, drop a comment. I read them.▸ KEYWORDShorror podcast, fiction podcast, audio fiction, cult horror, speculative fiction, indie audiobook, serialized fiction, literary horror, parasocial horror, influencer horror, wellness cult, livestream horror, A J Wiadrowski, Continuity Constellation, The Serial Port, The Context Modification, new horror 2026, weekly fiction podcast, original horror series, long form fiction podcast#fictionpodcast #horrorpodcast #culthorror Artist Link - Saturnids Art Get full access to The Continuity Constellation at continuityconstellation.substack.com/subscribe
