It’s always a pleasure to welcome ZBS back to the Fictional Cafe, and tonight is no exception. For your listening delight, we present all eight episodes of “The Night Has Begun,” a Dixon and Sparks radio drama. ZBS audio is very high quality, so headphones are recommended.

We’re also very happy to display Genevieve Shapiro’s artistic talents in the featured image (so like a record album cover) here at FC again. Genevieve, in addition to her art for ZBS audio works, created the featured image for ten-year-old Joy Son’s very first published short story, “Princess Olivia.” Thank you for sharing your art with us, Genevieve!

The story: Polly Parker believes someone has put a curse on her fiancé, Clifford Barnett. Clifford and his partner, Alan Hendrix, are what’s called headhunters — they find executives to run companies. Polly suspects, and so do Taylor Dixon and Phineas Sparks, this may be a real headhunters curse.

On with the show! Please click the right-pointing arrow to listen to each episode of the first Dixon and Sparks mystery. If you like what you hear, please click on Comments below and let us know. If we hear from enough of you Coffee Clubbers, we’ll present another!

<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption> Episode 1, The Shapes & Shadows of Their Thoughts </figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 2, They’re Still Hunting Heads</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 3, Ten Sure Signs of Knowing You’ve Been Cursed</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 4, Sometimes They Speak To Each Other</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 5, Whatever You Do – Don’t</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 6, The Spirits Are Hungry</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 7, Fritz, The All-Knowing Shrunken Head</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><figcaption>Episode 8, Were We Just Cursed?</figcaption></figure>