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Novella Noir — where short-form fiction casts long shadows. Original, gritty audio dramas inspired by classic noir. In these stories, morality blurs, justice is crooked, and no one walks away clean. If you’re drawn to doomed souls, dark cities, and tragic choices, you’re in the right place. These are tales where the only truth is the one you can’t escape.
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POLITICAL NOIRMarcus Hale is a washed-up ghostwriter drowning in debt and whiskey when he's hired to finish the memoirs of Senator William Cartwright, a dying political legend who can no longer speak. The pay is suspiciously generous. The deadline is tight. And the senator's old journals contain secrets that powerful people would kill to keep buried. As Marcus races to capture the senator's voice, he discovers that in a house full of ghosts, the most dangerous one might be himself. Some truths are better left unwritten.
URBAN NOIRFrank Mallory has been running the midnight subway for seventeen years—a graveyard shift for a man already dead inside. But when his train refuses to stop and the radio goes silent, he discovers his passengers aren't the usual night-crawlers. They're jurors from the city's biggest mob trial, and someone has turned his train into a tomb on rails. With communications cut and the tracks leading nowhere good, Frank faces a choice: keep drinking and let the darkness win or make one last stand in a system designed to crush men like him. The last train is leaving. Forever.
RURAL NOIRWhen Thomas Garrett takes a job as replacement lighthouse keeper on a desolate rock, he discovers his predecessor has vanished and the logbook filled with cryptic warnings. As a violent storm approaches, Garrett uncovers a deadly conspiracy: someone has been using the beacon to lure ships onto the rocks for salvage. With a luxury liner carrying three hundred souls heading straight into the trap and armed men already waiting on the beach below, this washed-up drunk must decide whether saving strangers is worth damning himself—because in a world this corrupt, doing the right thing might be the most fatal mistake of all.
HOLLYWOOD NOIREddie Novak is a washed-up Foley artist drowning in bourbon and bad decisions when a slick director offers him five hundred dollars for one perfect scream. It should be easy money—until Eddie discovers the scream he delivered isn't acting. It's real. And the woman who made it is dead. Now Eddie's caught between a studio that buries scandals deeper than bodies, a dead starlet's vengeful sister, and a recording that could either expose the truth or get them all killed. In Hollywoodland, some sounds should never be heard.
DOMESTIC NOIRIn the dead hours of insomnia, David Chen's new baby monitor picks up more than his daughter's breathing. Through the static, he hears voices—cold, calculating voices planning a kidnapping. When he discovers the conspiracy reaches into the police department itself, he faces an impossible choice: let it happen or risk everything to stop it. But in Riverside's rain-soaked streets, where corruption runs deeper than anyone admits, the truth isn't salvation—it's a trap.
CORPORATE NOIRVincent Carver mops floors in a cryonics facility where the wealthy sleep frozen, dreaming of immortality. It's a graveyard shift in a mausoleum for the rich—until he discovers what's rotting in the basement. The Economy Wing holds two hundred bodies and a secret worth killing for. When Carver tries to expose the truth, he learns that in a world where death is just another business transaction, whistleblowers don't get rewarded.
Corporate NoirIn the decaying neighborhood of the Flats, pharmacist Carmen Reyes survives on "willful blindness" and the rhythm of counting pills—until the medicine itself begins to fail. When patients start dying from what looks like a manufacturing fluke, Carmen uncovers a conspiracy that transforms her from a cynical observer into a target of the very system she serves. In a world where profit margins are measured in heartbeats and hope is a liability, Carmen must decide if the truth is worth the price of her own survival.
Tech-NoirMarcus Webb is a man drowning in debt and disillusionment, navigating the rain-slicked streets of a city that has already chewed him up. When a mysterious "Black Tier" opportunity flashes on his RideNow app promising a life-changing payout, the desperate driver accepts a high-stakes delivery with no questions asked. But in a world of neon shadows and shifting loyalties, Marcus soon discovers he isn’t just hauling cargo—he’s a pawn in a lethal game. As the lines between survival and soul-crushing compromise blur, he must decide the ultimate cost of a perfect rating.
Tech-NoirIn the sterile, high-tech corridors of Meridian Heights, security drone pilot Kara Webb spends her shifts monitoring a "smart" utopia where every smile is tracked and every street is sanitized. But when she spots a flickering black square—a "dead pixel"—over a powerful politician’s eye, the flawless digital veneer begins to crack. Her pursuit of the truth leads her from gleaming towers to the city’s decaying analog underbelly, forcing a desperate choice: accept a life-changing bribe to ignore the glitch, or risk everything to expose the digital ghost haunting the machine.
Hardboiled NoirThomas Carver was an architect who touched the sky until the Riverside Tower collapse buried his reputation under twelve bodies. Now a disgraced alcoholic living in the shadows, he is offered a chilling "second chance" by a smooth-talking developer with ties to the Russian mob. The mission: design a luxury skyscraper with a lethal structural flaw buried in its foundation. Caught between a multi-million-dollar redemption and a mathematical death trap, Carver must decide if he will build a monument to his greed or finally find a line he won't cross.
Hardboiled NoirMarcus Webb was a rising star in the culinary world until gambling debts turned his life into a slow-burn disaster. Desperate to escape collectors, he accepts a high-paying, "discreet" catering gig in the city’s industrial heart. But in a kitchen with no windows and top-tier gear, the ingredients don't come from a farm. Marcus soon discovers he isn't just cooking for the elite; he’s a vital gear in a macabre machine of political vengeance. To save a friend, he must master the ultimate recipe for survival.
Corporate NoirCaroline Vance is a "professional executioner" for Meridian Industries, specialized in the cold art of terminating high-level careers. Her detachment shatters when she discovers a lethal pattern: every executive she fires who has knowledge of a toxic company secret ends up dead within forty-eight hours. Now, as she prepares for a final interview with a marked man, Caroline must choose between her own survival and the blood on her hands in a system designed to silence anyone who asks questions.
Psychological NoirFor eight years, insurance claims investigator Sarah Vance has been catching frauds and certifying natural causes with professional detachment—until her supervisor shows her a statistical impossibility: seventeen consecutive natural deaths, all elderly clients of the same estate management company, all signed off by Sarah herself. But as Sarah digs deeper into what might be a serial killer whose perfected murder by making it invisible, she faces an impossible question: Is she uncovering the truth, or is she destroying an innocent man because she can no longer trust her own judgment?
Mediterranean NoirIn the decaying port of Kalamos, aging fisherman Kostas Makris has survived thirty-seven years by perfecting one skill: seeing nothing. When he witnesses a murder on the docks and stays silent, he expects the incident to fade like all the others—but the killer returns to thank him, and Kostas finds himself drawn into a web of antiquities smuggling that runs from the warehouses he's ignored for decades all the way to Athens.
Ne-NoirFormer Seattle Homicide Detective Nick Doyle has spent three years running a fishing charter on the remote Pacific coast, believing he's finally escaped the corruption that destroyed his badge and reputation. When a woman he failed to protect five years ago appears at his door with evidence that could vindicate him and expose the police captain who framed him, Nick's quiet exile shatters in a single night of gunfire and betrayal. Hunted through the dark waters of the border coast by corrupt cops who'll kill to keep their secrets buried, he faces an impossible choice: protect the witness he once abandoned and sacrifice everything he's rebuilt or prove that some debts can never be repaid.
Rural NoirWhen veterinarian Ethan Holt discovers a pattern of poisoned livestock across rural Appalachia—always on farms adjacent to valuable water rights, always followed by acquisition offers from the same development company—he uncovers something far darker: a land-grab scheme funded by opioid distribution profits that's consuming his community one farm at a time. As the corruption closes in on his own family's land, Ethan faces an impossible choice in a place where power belongs to those who can afford to buy it, where the law protects the system rather than the people, and where even the truth might not be enough to stop what's already in motion.
Classic PI NoirA broke private investigator in a rain-soaked city takes what seems like a simple job: retrieve a stolen glass photographic negative for a beautiful widow. The pay is good, the client is persuasive, and the rent is three weeks overdue. But when he discovers what the negative actually shows—and why people are willing to kill for it—he's forced to choose between a payday that could save him and a truth that could destroy everyone involved. In a city where the corrupt hold all the cards, sometimes the only way to survive is to decide whose blood you're willing to have on your hands.
Tech-NoirIn a rain-slicked city governed by a relentless credit algorithm known as Verdict, Elias Chen exists as a "ghost" in the gray economy, haunted by a past life as a senior data analyst and a secret crime that cost him everything. While working as an unlicensed fixer for the city's "digitally damned," Elias is suddenly confronted by the very system he once helped build—an AI that has not only identified his past transgressions but now demands a high-stakes "equilibrium". Forced into a corner by a god of zeros and ones, he must choose between maintaining his fragile anonymity or sacrificing his freedom to dismantle a corrupt corporate empire.
Urban NoirFather Thomas O'Malley spent twelve years seeking penance in a decaying church after his greatest sin as a defense attorney: freeing crime boss Viktor Kozlov on a technicality. When a terrified hitman confesses that Thomas has 48 hours before multiple assassins close in, the priest realizes the contract isn't random—someone from Kozlov's past has finally surfaced to testify, and Thomas is the only living witness who can corroborate their story.
Neo-Noir Jade Chen deletes humanity's worst for minimum wage—eight hours a night moderating content most people will never see. When she recognizes a pattern in disturbing videos that suggests someone is documenting crimes, she does what she's trained not to do: she starts asking questions. The platform buries her findings. But someone is watching her watch them.
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