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Ash Tales | Stories of the Apocalypse Ash Tales
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Short stories exploring the end of the world.
From nuclear Armageddon to bio-engineered super plague, humanity has an age-old obsession with the end of the world.
Each week, we'll be sharing a self-contained short story, exploring what life might be like at the end of the everything.
Learn more: https://ashtales.com/
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Episode 22: Lakeside Doomsday Cult
The snow has stopped falling for now, the gloomy black clouds have gone their separate ways, leaving a strangely pretty dusk. My thoughts are shattered by the badly aging intercom speakers crackling and hissing a demand. "ALL STAFF TO WARD 5, ROOM 3, IMMEDIATELY."
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About the author: Benjamin Blake was born in the July of 1985, and grew up in the small town of Eltham, New Zealand. He is the author of the novel, The Devil's Children, the poetry and prose collections, A Prayer for Late October, Southpaw Nights, Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead, and Standing on the Threshold of Madness. Find more of his writing (and photography) at www.benjaminblake.com.
About the narrator: Josh Moynehan is a writer and voice actor from Aylesbury in the UK. You can find him online at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-moynehan/.
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Episode 21: The Sea Lords Script
After nearly a decade of analysis, the Linguistics Department of Gabonium University cracked the enigma that is the Sea Lords Script.
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About the author: Jason E. Maddux is an aviation attorney, who uses writing speculative fiction and children's stories as a creative outlet each night once his two daughters are in bed. After spending his youth moving around the south-eastern United States, he now resides in northern Virginia. Follow his writing online at https://jasonemaddux.com/ and @Jason_E_Maddux.
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Episode 20: Body Parts Jewelry Store Man
It’s dangerous out there, especially when food becomes scarce and crime picks up. But when you wear body-parts jewelry, well - people take you seriously.
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About the author: Michael Carter is a short fiction and creative nonfiction writer from the Western United States. He’s also ghostwriter in the legal profession, a Space Camp Alum, and a volcanic eruption survivor. He enjoys fly fishing and wandering remote wilderness areas with no cell service. You can find him online at michaelcarter.ink and @mcmichaelcarter.
About the narrator: Josh Moynehan is a writer and voice actor from Aylesbury in the UK. You can find him online at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-moynehan/.
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Episode 19: Fourteenth Birthday Chat
The generator fails, the temperature begins to rise, and you realise: this may be the last conversation you ever have. Some birthday, eh?
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About the author: Sharni Wilson is a New Zealand writer of fiction and Japanese-to-English literary translator, whose work has appeared in Takahē and the Tokyo Poetry Journal. She can be found at www.sharniwilson.com
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Episode 18: The Poppies' Secret
Follow two sisters, Terra and Ada, as they forage through humanity's far-future, in a world littered with high-tech relics and ruins from a civilisation long-since destroyed.
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Episode 17: Digging
One man and his dog retrace their footsteps through the wreckage of a life forever changed by a deadly disease.
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Customer Reviews
Quality. Classy.
These are impressive, descriptive tales, quality stories from talented authors, all skillfully narrated by the charming host.
Kudos to this podcast.
Missing this podcast!
I already love the premise anyway but this is definitely a great podcast. The producer/creator is a busy professional with other work (as it seemed from his website bio) so hope this will eventually come back with new episodes.
The new reviewer of old tales
Truly an epic that gets stuck in your brain pan. I find myself wandering through podcasts not knowing what I’m searching for but having a strong inclination to keep looking, like a tickle in the back your mind that you can’t scratch, then suddenly remembering... this is it.