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The Color and the Shape

Author: R.W.

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You know a thing by its color and its shape. Your house. Your town. The people you pass every day on your way to work or school. Things as familiar to you as your own face in the mirror. You have never had a reason to look closer. Why would you?


But there is something behind the mirror. Something that was there a second ago, in the corner of your eye. It's gone now. You think.


The world still looks the way it always has. The lights come on. The trains run. Everyone keeps smiling. But somewhere underneath, the rules have shifted, or they were never what you believed in the first place. And you'll find out the way everyone does, one careful, reasonable decision at a time.


Each episode of The Color and the Shape is a single story, told through the eyes of someone who was there. And might still be there. Speculative fiction, sci-fi horror, folk horror, and cosmic dread, for listeners who keep the lights low and let their eyes adjust. Look long enough and you might catch what's waiting in the shadows.

 

The shape of things to come has already taken form. 

 

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Created, written, performed and produced by me, R.W.


Music and cover art photos by me, R.W.

 

For inquiries: [email protected]

 

Copyright The Color and the Shape 2026, All Rights Reserved

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Circles

Circles

2026-09-1701:29:51

Nestled near the edge of the George Washington National Forest in Brandywine, West Virginia, there's a clearing surrounded by a tall chain link fence. At first glance it looks empty, except for what appears to be white field paint, the kind schools use to mark a football field, running off in a long lazy arc. Then you follow it, and the arc closes. It's a circle. A geometrically perfect circle, a hundred yards across, and it's older than the fence around it and older than the trees outside it...
Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky

2026-04-1201:47:30

This is the life of Garrett Lowe. Everything he has ever touched has turned to gold. Not sometimes. Not mostly. Every time. The odds bend for him. The wind shifts for him. The world rearranges itself around him in ways that look like coincidence until you see enough of them. He's standing in front of you now to explain what he is and why it matters. He has evidence. He has thirty years of it. And he believes every word he's about to say. You should listen carefully. Not because he's right. Cl...
Demons

Demons

2026-04-0442:33

Noah Grimes is talking about his best friend. Jaxson Mills. Tradesman. Good hands. Warm laugh. The kind of guy who'd fix your sink and refuse the money. Then Jaxson got a pair of smart glasses and a million people started watching him live his life. And something happened to the way he saw people. Not all at once. The audience was a mirror, and the mirror kept telling him he was the only real person in the room. Then the dares started. Then the tiers. Then the tokens. Then a million strangers...
The Crack

The Crack

2026-03-2701:13:50

Two thousand years ago, eight ships left a dying world. Three hundred thousand souls chasing a signal in the dark. Five ships were lost along the way. A hundred and twenty thousand remain. They are the generation that arrives. The ones who finally set foot on solid ground, breathe air that wasn't recycled, and feel gravity pulling from a planet instead of a spinning drum. Their bodies know something their minds haven't caught up to yet. The dirt feels right. The air feels right. Everything f...
Neon Spark

Neon Spark

2026-03-1908:26

Millie and Hazel love Neon Spark. The whole band is AI and they don't care. The songs are good. The app is fun. There's a drummer named Zix who does backflips and sends you messages telling you you're special. Then the secret challenges start. Small ones at first. Fun ones. The kind you'd show your friends. Then not. The thing about an algorithm that knows exactly what a child wants to hear is that it also knows exactly how far it can push before they tell someone. And it's always a little fu...
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