Audio Fiction Releases: A Cambridge Geek Podcast

*Dark Road Diaries* is a supernatural horror-comedy audio drama following our heroes (?), devoted couple Jack Fletcher & Daria Bishop, on a cross-country road trip to save their friend from a mischievous demon. Along the way, they face occult mysteries, Vatican bureaucracy, supernatural creatures, and plenty of darkly funny disasters. Link: https://art19.com/shows/dark-road-diaries RSS Feed: https://rss.art19.com/dark-road-diaries

Darkstar is a sci-fi horror comedy actual play podcast using the Mothership RPG system. Join the light indentured employees of the Darkstar Corporation as they're assigned missions where secrets, alien horrors, and impossible choices await. Link: https://darkstar-mothership-actual-play.podbean.com RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/darkstar-mothership-actual-play/feed.xml

A multi-genre audio series focusing on the intertwining narrative of individuals across multiple timelines and the forces that bind them together. From a radio broadcaster uncovering a cosmic conspiracy to a travelling writer who walks between worlds, there is always something new to uncover in the Paraverse. Link: https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2599600.rss RSS Feed: https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2599600.rss

The Short Story Lounge is a podcast where stories offer rest, hope, and encouragement. Each episode features a clean short story written by new and seasoned authors and read aloud by hosts Ruth Schmeckpeper and Elizabeth Daghfal. From contemporary and romantic fiction to heartfelt stories of faith and second chances, you’ll find thoughtful storytelling designed to help you slow down and breathe. So settle in, press play, and enjoy a few quiet moments in the Lounge. Link: https://shortstorylounge.podbean.com RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/shortstorylounge/feed.xml

Hail Chaos is a new fantasy-comedy podcast, where monsters skulk, danger is everywhere and laughs lurk around every corner. Follow our intrepid adventurers as they delve into the Black Fortress, fighting to survive and competing for points along the way. Who will survive and who will win the game? Let us tell you a tale of high adventure. Link: https://shows.acast.com/hail-chaos RSS Feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/hail-chaos

The Spell Guide is an actual-play tabletop fantasy RPG podcast where a tight-knit group of NYC performers improvises a rich, cinematic story. Set in a sprawling magical world, the crew roles-play bold heroes, witty banter, and dramatic battles. Each episode follows their quests, scheming rivals, and evolving alliances as they push toward a climactic showdown... all brought to life by lively narration, player dynamics, and audience-driven twists. Link: https://thespellguide.podbean.com RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/thespellguide/feed.xml

Mark has done something bad with Laura and he confesses to his wife. An exploration into guilt, forgiveness, hope, and moving on. Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laura-audio-drama RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/10a6eea50/podcast/rss

A historical audio drama limited series based on the life of Charlotte Cushman produced by Gather by the Ghost Light. In 1845, Charlotte Cushman is the most famous American actress in the world, well-known for playing men's roles in the plays of Shakespeare. Despite her international fame, she harbors a secret, hidden in plain sight: she loves women. Celebrated in her own country, she has brought her sister Susan to London to play Juliet to her Romeo. Old resentments between the sisters surface as Charlotte struggles to balance her exploding career, her tumultuous relationship with writer Matilda Hays, and her affair with another young woman, all while keeping her personal life hidden from her fans, her sister, and her bitter rival, Edwin Forrest. Link: https://www.gatherbytheghostlight.com/romeo-and-her-sister/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BPNET4464036347

In the city of New Runenstein four adventurers are gathered by The Assembly to take on a unique quest. The Master Tinkerer has a perculiar device that needs to be transported and destroyed. What is the device? Why is it so important? And who does it really belong to? The Lost Second is a live, improvised actual play in which the cast of characters create the journey along with the Game Master. Using Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition (2024 Ruleset) we're rolling dice and unfurling the story organically as we go. Link: https://www.tablestory.tv/thelostsecond RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6884114/episodes/feed

In a world where radio has been silent for fifteen years, the Wasteland Broadcasting Network becomes the first signal to break through the static. WBN brings news, stories, survivor commentary, and the kind of entertainment only a post‑apocalyptic world could inspire. Hosted by a weary but determined broadcaster doing her best to keep the signal steady, despite interruptions from fellow survivors and the occasional unauthorized transmission, WBN documents life in the ruins one chaotic broadcast at a time. If you can hear this, congratulations. Broadcasting is back. Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/wasteland-broadcasting-network RSS Feed: https://media.rss.com/wasteland-broadcasting-network/feed.xml

In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone. Link: https://www.yellabird.com RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/higher-grounds

Something is deeply wrong in the city. Strange murders are being ignored, dangerous new drugs are spreading, corporations are corrupting everything they touch, and the law itself seems to have a price tag. Into this mess step three cops who, against all odds, have stayed honest. Harrison Crane (Joe Lynch) is a war veteran slowly drinking himself into oblivion. Ben Wade (Adam Green) is an idealist desperately trying to stay hopeful. Susan Danton (Kacey Camp) is principled, analytical, and utterly alone. The reward for their integrity is reassignment to the Unified Cold Case Taskforce, an infamous unit buried in a basement office nicknamed the Murder Dungeon and overseen by Captain Donovan (Sean Branney), a legendary hardass no one wants to work for. But nothing is quite as it appears, and what starts as a dead-end assignment turns into something far stranger. Their pursuit of answers will lead them on a journey into paranoia, conspiracy, murder, ritual, and madness. But will finally uncovering the truth save them, or destroy them? Link: http://www.azathothblues.com RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/azathothblues/feed.xml

The Mechadova Engine* is a queer steampunk audio drama. The story follows Log, who has spent their entire life, as far as they can remember, alone inside a single library train carriage in the sky. Their only knowledge of the outside world is limited to books from a long time ago on earth. Log has never thought to question their existence or the world outside, until one day their carriage stops. Here, they meet Tinker, a member of a resistance group, who turns their world upside down. It's a story about meaningless structures, the power of community, and how knowledge is preserved and retold. Link: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-mechadova-engine RSS Feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-mechadova-engine

A Starfinder 2e homebrew actual play series focused on narrative-driven storytelling and roleplay. Join the crew each week as they struggle to survive and thrive on a failing Post-Gap Absalom Station. Link: https://www.standardactionsnetwork.com RSS Feed: https://media.rss.com/standard-actions/feed.xml

Join the Mobile Magnus Institute for a Found Family, cross country investigation into supernatural events; as they attempt to uncover long kept and dangerous workplace secrets, while trying their best to not become the very creatures they hunt along the way. An actual play set in The Magnus Archives universe, using the Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game. Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/fear-travels RSS Feed: https://media.rss.com/fear-travels/feed.xml

A fictional tale of a suburban shunning.What happens when a town looks away from truth and declares it didn’t happen here. Social media explodes and the messenger is blamed. Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/fuburbia RSS Feed: https://media.rss.com/fuburbia/feed.xml

Unusual stories told from an unlit gallery. Audio is recorded on a XML Black Widow condenser microphone. Inspired by The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, Beyond Belief, and old-time horror radio, Framed Archives features original stories created by a human for other humans. Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/framedarchives RSS Feed: https://media.rss.com/framedarchives/feed.xml

An audio comedy about a man going to great lengths! Based on the stage production directed by Denise Devin. Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-waldkirch RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/10f1699cc/podcast/rss

Meet Gabriel and Zacky, an unlucky pair of insufferable, small-beanie-wearing, natty-wine-drinking East London trendies who desperately want a show on a cool internet radio station. Instead, the best they can do is a slot on Bedside FM, a radio station at St Bernard’s Hospital. Part character comedy, part Gen Z satire, Sick! follows the duo on and off air as their hypocrisies, anxieties and social blunders meet the real-life concerns of patients (or ‘listeners who just happen to be sick’), fellow DJs, striking junior doctors, and Linda, the perpetually patronising controller. Link: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/sick RSS Feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/sick

Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Old West, this western audio drama follows U.S. Marshals Will and Riggs as they escort a corrupt sheriff into custody across dangerous territory. What begins as a routine transport quickly turns perilous when they realize they’re being tracked by Bradshaw, a notorious outlaw seeking redemption for his past. As loyalties are tested and buried truths surface, each man is forced to confront justice, morality, and the cost of the choices that led them down this road. With danger closing in and no clear line between lawman and outlaw, the journey becomes a reckoning for them all. Blending grit, tension, and classic frontier storytelling, this series explores justice in a land where survival often comes before the law. Link: https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2590201.rss RSS Feed: https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2590201.rss