Long Odds

James
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Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. A small, underfunded, secret federal program has found a way into other universes. Nobody can choose the destination, only roughly how different it will be from ours. Teams go in with a case, a cover story, and a budget that cannot survive too many empty-handed trips, hoping to bring home something that helps: a medicine another world bet on, an engine we never built, a road not taken. Getting back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. Every episode is a complete story with its own ending, in the spirit of X Minus One and The Twilight Zone, but not sad all the time. Underneath, slow currents move: relationships grow, people lose patience with each other and with the program, and some of them think it will end badly. Some crossings are wondrous, some are funny, some are quiet, and some go wrong. Episodes where the team does real harm to the world it visited open with a spoken warning. You can start anywhere. If you keep listening, you will notice more. Early episodes are single-narrator readings; later episodes are full audio productions with a cast, music, and sound. All voices are synthetic. Not every crossing goes well.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Long Odds, Episode 4: Foundation Seed

    A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. After the first outbound quarantine in the Survey's history, biologist Owen Tate crosses from Nevada at dial four and finds a Humboldt valley of perennial wheat and fifty thousand sandhill cranes. The seed that could change farming at home lives in one old woman's seed station on a bend of the river, and bringing it home will cost more than anyone planned. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  2. 4d ago

    Long Odds, Episode 3: The Museum

    A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. A home episode, with no crossing. Over one long weekend in the quarantine basement, Dr. Clara Benning keeps her team company through a ballgame and a last round of swabs, and hears from the program's chemist what a pill from another world really is. Then a test result changes what her job has always meant. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  3. Oct 21 ·  Bonus

    Off the Books: Declared Value

    A side story outside the main Long Odds numbering. Told from home. Walt Sobieski spends one very long day at the annex, hearing his field team only through ninety second radio windows, while a customs officer in a world where the Constitution never happened impounds their equipment, a federal auditor wants to see the books, and the coffee machine is broken. A workplace comedy with a great deal riding on one line of a tariff schedule. A full cast production with music and sound. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  4. Oct 17 ·  Bonus

    Off the Books: The Remarkable Raymond

    A side story outside the main Long Odds numbering. Ines, Luis, and Owen cross to a world just next door and land in the middle of a seven year old's backyard birthday party, halfway through a magic trick. The only person who doesn't panic is the magician. The Remarkable Raymond has spent forty years making things disappear, and tonight he gets to help three strangers do it for real. A full cast production with music and sound. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  5. Oct 14

    Long Odds 02: The Helper

    A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. In this episode, return engineer Femi Adeyemi talks his way onto a blind jump with Team Two out of the Nevada desert, carrying an old chart recorder, a photograph of his grandfather, and a hunch he is afraid to say out loud. They land at dial four, farther out than Femi has ever been, in a world where the sky over the Humboldt River is strangely quiet and the railroad never stopped growing. Somewhere in town, an old engineer has room in his cab. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  6. Oct 11

    Long Odds 01: The Porch Light

    A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. In the first episode, cover specialist Hana Whitlock volunteers for a return test to a gentle world where, last April, a widow who runs a boarding house in Hancock, Maryland took in three soaked strangers and left the porch light on. The team lands in a sibling world instead, where nobody remembers them, and where the widow's husband never died. Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. Not every crossing goes well.

  • 6 Episodes

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Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. A small, underfunded, secret federal program has found a way into other universes. Nobody can choose the destination, only roughly how different it will be from ours. Teams go in with a case, a cover story, and a budget that cannot survive too many empty-handed trips, hoping to bring home something that helps: a medicine another world bet on, an engine we never built, a road not taken. Getting back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. Every episode is a complete story with its own ending, in the spirit of X Minus One and The Twilight Zone, but not sad all the time. Underneath, slow currents move: relationships grow, people lose patience with each other and with the program, and some of them think it will end badly. Some crossings are wondrous, some are funny, some are quiet, and some go wrong. Episodes where the team does real harm to the world it visited open with a spoken warning. You can start anywhere. If you keep listening, you will notice more. Early episodes are single-narrator readings; later episodes are full audio productions with a cast, music, and sound. All voices are synthetic. Not every crossing goes well.

Information

  • Creator
    James
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Long Odds
  • Show Website
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