Original Science Fiction – Makeshift Stories

Alan V Hare
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Original Science Fiction – Makeshift Stories

Makeshift Stories is an independently produced sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for all ages. Twice a month, escape the ordinary and join us on a journey through space, time, possible futures, alternative pasts and the unexplainable.

  1. MAR 4

    A New Star in Aries

    Professor Hollis Cooper, an underground scientist, must pass a daily test to prove her belief in the official facts. But she comes under investigation when she accidentally slips up in a lecture. Official interest in her couldn’t come at a worse time, as Hollis and a colleague, using banned equipment from a previous age, discover an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Hollis and her colleague must try to evade discovery long enough to determine where the asteroid will hit and find a way to warn humanity.

    30 min

  2. FEB 6

    Floor Forty-two

    During a routine license audit at a vertical farm, Carmen, a demoted field agent, discovers that the farmhands, including a man named Salvador, are genetically modified and memory-altered slaves. Carmen risks her job and her life to expose the illegal operation. In an unexpected twist, when events turn against her, help comes from a surprising source.

    33 min

  3. JAN 18

    The Forever Worm

    After a long shift ice mining in Saturn’s rings, Pascoe heads for a drink and the company of fresh faces at the Methane Bar on Titan. When he arrives, the bar is deserted except for Allgera, a recluse, who is, after years of silence, ready to share her alluring secret—immortality. As Pascoe is drawn into her strange, ageless world, he must decide: is eternal life worth the price it extracts?

    22 min

  4. JAN 4

    Reality Adjustment (Part 2)

    Nickie and her cousin Noah stumble upon a mystery as they plan an adjustment for the Primate Council; someone appears to be following them. The mysterious person turns out to be a childhood friend who reveals their roles as adjusters, make them targets of the Council. In a desperate attempt to escape and preserve their existence, all three set out to cross the border before they are erased.

    26 min

  5. 12/17/2024

    Reality Adjustment (Part 1)

    Nickie Holmes is the best Adjuster in the business, erasing anomalies to align the physical world with the Primate Council’s official digital record. After a Forget injection wipes her memory of the last job, she takes on a new assignment with her cousin Noah, targeting a house, a store, and a car. As the duo navigates the eerie familiarity of their hometown, cracks begin to form in the certainty of Nickie’s work—and the reality she’s sworn to uphold.

    21 min

  6. 12/03/2024

    Return of the Sovereign

    After a century on Mars, crypto-trillionaire Devon Smit decides to return to Earth. He wants to be a god among the human masses, which he and his fellow elite left behind, to escape society's downfall and impending environmental collapse. His obsession with gaining godlike status blinds him to the warnings of a fellow trillionaire and subtle signs that his potential subjects are interested in something other than revering him.

    28 min

  7. 11/18/2024

    An Alien Mind

    When Dr. Veda Singh arrives at a mining camp to fix the mysterious loss of communications with an AI studying a 12,000-year-old Aspen colony, malfunctioning automated mining machinery and unexplained network activity initially point to a sinister third party. However, working with Nolan Myers, a software engineer hired by the mine to investigate the automation failures, they discover they are up against an unexpected adversary-one of nature’s oldest guardians.

    28 min

  8. 11/04/2024

    Escape Across the 60th

    Dr. Tremblay, a geneticist, is fleeing after attempting to distribute his Alzheimer's cure against his employer's wishes. To escape the private security company pursuing him, he navigates a dangerous river to seek asylum north of the 60th parallel in the Arctic Alliance. An old robotic dog unexpectedly aids him, rescuing him from drowning. When Tremblay faces capture, the dog saves him again before vanishing into the forest.

    34 min
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Makeshift Stories is an independently produced sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for all ages. Twice a month, escape the ordinary and join us on a journey through space, time, possible futures, alternative pasts and the unexplainable.

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