Shortwave tales

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Shortwave Tales is a weekly fiction anthology podcast delivering original short stories across every genre — horror, romance, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and beyond. Each episode tunes into a different frequency of imagination, bringing listeners a complete, binge-ready story in twenty minutes or less. Immersive narration, atmospheric sound design, and a rotating cast of voices make every episode feel like discovering a signal from another world

Episodes

  1. 4h ago

    Persistence Crew Tales - Sven Larson (Able Seaman)

    The lamp had long since burned low that night, but no one moved to trim it higher. The wind outside had a different temper than usual — not the steady moan the men had grown used to, but something that came in gusts, like breath, like a thing pausing to listen before it spoke again. It was Sven's turn, and the burly Swede took his time settling into it, the way a man settles before lifting something with real weight to it. When he finally spoke, he was careful to say plainly that the tale wasn't his own — it belonged to his grandmother, and her mother before her, passed down through long Värmland winters not so different from the one now holding the Persistence fast in her ice. A story, he said, about a lonely man, a forest that does not forgive curiosity, and a kind of company a man ought to think twice before accepting.

  2. 4h ago

    Persistence Crew Tales - John McKenzie (Ships Doctor)

    There was one man aboard who almost never spoke of himself. John McKenzie — the ship's surgeon.  But that night, in the circle of firelight and frozen breath, surrounded by men desperate for distraction …  McKenzie finally leaned forward. "I'll tell you about my last trip home," he said. And the ice outside seemed almost to go still .

  3. 4h ago

    Persistence Crew Tales - Hollis (Second Mate)

    Her name was the Persistence. And in the winter of 1901, that name was about to be tested. She'd left Dundee months earlier — a whaling and survey ship, bound for the frozen waters above Baffin Bay. Her hold was packed for a full season. Her captain trusted his charts. The ice didn't. By the second week of September, the open water they'd counted on had vanished — sealed shut by a maze of pack ice, white in every direction. Two weeks later, it was over. The Persistence wasn't sailing anywhere. Not that month. Not that year. She was locked inside a floe nearly four miles wide — and she groaned. Constantly. A deep, grinding sound, the sound of ice pressing in on all sides, pressure that could snap an oak hull like a dry twig, if it ever decided to close all the way. Twenty-two men were trapped inside that sound. Night after night, the cold pressed in with the ice, and so did something worse — the quiet, creeping thought that they might never get out. But the men found a way to hold that fear at bay. They gathered. They talked. And when the dark outlasted the conversation, they told stories — tales spun to fill the silence, to keep twenty-two minds from wandering somewhere colder than the ice ever could.

  4. Aug 7

    The Captain who walked only a Night

    I was sixteen when they dragged me from the docks and bound me to the Kestrel. A whip of a lad, bare foot and hungry, It was on the fifth night I saw him.

  5. Aug 7

    Black Briar House - 5 The End

    To uncover the truth, Emma must descend beneath Black Briar House and discover what the iron key was really made to open. But some doors are locked for a reason. And some houses never let their families go.

  6. Jul 11

    Black Briar House - 3&4 of 5

    Every family keeps secrets. Every clock in the house has stopped at exactly 3:17. Ravens gather silently on the roof. Seven ancestral portraits bear the same strange scar. And hidden behind an old book, Emma discovers a heavy iron key that Eleanor is terrified for her to possess. Then the dreams begin.

  7. Jul 11

    Black Briar House - chapter 1&2 of 5

    When seventeen-year-old Emma arrives at the isolated and decaying Black Briar House to stay with her elderly great-grandmother Eleanor, she immediately senses that something about the old family home is terribly wrong.

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About

Shortwave Tales is a weekly fiction anthology podcast delivering original short stories across every genre — horror, romance, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and beyond. Each episode tunes into a different frequency of imagination, bringing listeners a complete, binge-ready story in twenty minutes or less. Immersive narration, atmospheric sound design, and a rotating cast of voices make every episode feel like discovering a signal from another world

Information

  • Creator
    jud
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © jud
  • Show Website
    Shortwave tales