Impossible Choices: Short Stories by Raj Shankar

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Impossible Choices: Short Stories by Raj Shankar is a podcast of original fiction about the moments when there is no easy answer. Written and narrated by author Raj Shankar, each episode explores people caught between competing truths: family and freedom, justice and mercy, culture and change, love and obligation, who we inherit and who we choose to become. Some stories are speculative. Some are unsettling. Some are rooted in immigration, heritage, identity, and the complicated experience of belonging to more than one world. Others begin with a single impossible premise and follow it to the question hiding underneath. The genres may change, but the question remains: What would you choose? From quiet family stories to dark moral dilemmas, Impossible Choices is fiction for anyone who likes stories that continue working on them after the final sentence. Written and narrated by Raj Shankar, author of Kem Cho? (How Are You?), The Ninth Life of Missy, and other works of fiction. Read more at https://www.threecatspress.com. New here? Start anywhere. Just remember: Choose carefully.

Episodes

  1. 12h ago

    Every Hour, Every Day

    Every Hour, Every Day What if you met someone you knew you could love, but you also knew exactly how little time you would have together? Marcus has spent thirty-seven years assuming there will always be more time. Then he meets Kael. She is Luminari, a refugee from a dying star system whose people live their entire lives in less than two years. To Kael, every sunrise matters. Every sensation matters. Even something as ordinary as the smell of a tomato deserves your full attention. Marcus knows how their story will end before it truly begins. The question is whether knowing the ending makes the love less worthwhile... or infinitely more precious. When the story ends, the choice becomes yours. Would you let yourself love someone if you knew from the beginning exactly how soon you would lose them? 📖 Prefer to read the story? The complete written version of “Every Hour, Every Day” is available on the Three Cats Press website: www.threecatspress.com Visit the site to read the story and discover more original fiction by Raj Shankar. 🎙️ Follow Impossible Choices wherever you listen so you don't miss the next story. Copyright © 2026 Raj Shankar. All rights reserved. “Every Hour, Every Day,” this episode, and all original stories featured on Impossible Choices are original works written by Raj Shankar and protected by copyright. Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, distribution, recording, publication, or redistribution is prohibited except as permitted by law.

  2. 2d ago

    Impossible Choices - Trailer

    Every choice closes a door. Most of the time, we never think about the life waiting on the other side. But sometimes... the choice is impossible. Welcome to Impossible Choices. I’m Raj Shankar. Each episode, I’ll tell you a story about an ordinary person facing a decision with no easy answer. Some stories will take us into strange futures. Some will explore love, family, identity, immigration, culture, and the things we inherit from the people who came before us. Some may feel impossible. Others may feel uncomfortably familiar. But every story eventually arrives at the same place: a moment when someone has to choose. And when the story ends, the choice becomes yours. What would you have done? Would you make the same decision? And if you knew what that decision would cost... would you still make it? These are stories about who we become when there is no perfect answer. This is Impossible Choices. Subscribe now. The first choice is waiting.

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Impossible Choices: Short Stories by Raj Shankar is a podcast of original fiction about the moments when there is no easy answer. Written and narrated by author Raj Shankar, each episode explores people caught between competing truths: family and freedom, justice and mercy, culture and change, love and obligation, who we inherit and who we choose to become. Some stories are speculative. Some are unsettling. Some are rooted in immigration, heritage, identity, and the complicated experience of belonging to more than one world. Others begin with a single impossible premise and follow it to the question hiding underneath. The genres may change, but the question remains: What would you choose? From quiet family stories to dark moral dilemmas, Impossible Choices is fiction for anyone who likes stories that continue working on them after the final sentence. Written and narrated by Raj Shankar, author of Kem Cho? (How Are You?), The Ninth Life of Missy, and other works of fiction. Read more at https://www.threecatspress.com. New here? Start anywhere. Just remember: Choose carefully.

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