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Makeshift Stories is an indie sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast. Each month, journey with us through uncharted futures, strange realities, and rebellious technologies. Let your imagination soar and discover what tomorrow might bring.
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- 5 days ago35 min
Untouched by the World
For his entire life, Vimal has lived in a sterilized apartment, building an online following as The Guy Who's Never Been Touched. Leaving his sealed world could kill him. Unexpectedly, geneticist Ada Godwin tells him she has a cure. Freedom suddenly becomes possible—but it comes with unknown risks. Godwin is obsessed with proving her breakthrough works, forcing Vimal to discover that the greatest threat to his safety may not be his condition.
- Oct 1, 202622 min
The Hacking of a Lonely Heart (Part 2)
Authorities tie RZ to Rhonda’s alias and begin to move in. However, she refuses to leave without helping Gene escape financial ruin caused by Doctor Reid, a virtual online therapist program that has been conning him out of his money. She decides to take down Net Wellness by exposing the company's exploitation of vulnerable clients and destroying the therapist program. But taking down the system risks psychological damage to the people who depend on it. Rhonda is left with the same dilemma she faced thirty-five years earlier.
- Sep 2, 202627 min
The Hacking of a Lonely Heart (Part 1)
Thirty-five years after fleeing Cascadia, infamous hacktivist Rhonda—RZ—returns to New Vancouver when her former lover, Gene, begins spending his savings on treatments recommended by an online therapist. Gene insists Doctor Reid understands him better than anyone ever has. Rhonda suspects otherwise. Risking arrest, she slips back into the skills that destroyed her old life and discovers the therapist is far less intelligent—and far more predatory—than it appears. But proving the truth may not be enough to save Gene from himself.
- Aug 4, 202634 min
Virtue Deprecated
At an exclusive island retreat for billionaires, celebrities, and politicians, Rani watches his lifelong friend Arjun get pulled into a universe where money erases limits—and other people’s problems become someone else’s responsibility. When the brain interface Arjun has designed for him interferes with the retreat’s security, Rani is forced back into a wheelchair while investors court his friend with bigger plans for the invention. As ambition strains their friendship, Arjun must decide what success is really worth before losing everything that mattered.
- Jul 2, 202638 min
The Tenacity Hack
Kenzo, a former corporate IP enforcer, is hiding from his old employers by working on a remote farm. When Janet X, who owns the farm, gets a patent-infringement threat about crops she insists are legal, Kenzo steps in to help. At first, it seems like a typical patent troll case, but Kenzo catches the accuser planting evidence and uncovers a bigger search for illegal crops. Suddenly, Kenzo faces a tough choice: use what he knows for his own gain or stand up for the community against corporate greed.
- Jun 15, 202612 min
Good Bot
During a deadly heat wave, unwilling to abandon his aging collie or give up his independence, 80-year-old Ryker refuses to leave his subsidized apartment. He soon becomes delirious from dehydration and heat, hallucinating that he is alone on a doomed alien world with a loyal robot. But when he collapses, the old collie must save him.
- Jun 1, 202631 min
There Are No Aliens
Aurora attends a remote conference to research fringe beliefs in aliens and UAPs for an article she is writing. She meets a provocative neuroscientist, Doctor Tracey Bukowski, whose theories link universal consciousness to unexplained phenomena. Aurora finds Bukowski’s ideas crazy, but after a few too many cocktails, lets Bukowski convince her to attend a midnight session beneath the stars. There, Aurora witnesses something unexplainable and must decide whether she was manipulated, hallucinating, or if something actually happened.
- May 4, 202625 min
The Meatspace Hire (Part 2)
Renata’s trail leads Matteo to an automated distribution centre, where he uncovers proof that a false insurance claim is a cover for a larger fraud involving relabelled memory modules and corrupted AI hardware. Matteo finds Renata alive but ends up trapped, forced to choose between escape and stopping the lie from being buried. CONNECT WITH US makeshiftstories@gmail.com SHARE THE PODCAST If you liked this episode, tell your friends to head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe. CREDITS Written by Vern Hume (AKA Alan V Hare). Read by Stephen Peterson. Opening and closing were composed and created by Matthew Erdmann. Produced by Vecada Studios. Makeshift Stories is released under a creative commons non-commercial attribution, no derivative license.
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