51. [ 34:12 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

During a future world oil shortage a scientist, researching an old idea about the potential energy contained in a vacuum (zero point energy), discovers a cheap simple method of extracting almost limitless power from literally nothing. Realizing how important his discovery is the scientist decides to file a patent application before he publishes his research. On his way to file the patent the scientist is approached by an odd stranger who seems intent on stopping the release of the new technology.

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50. The In-between [ 38:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Catina, the director of online marketing, for an important advertising agency comes up with a revolutionary idea, but forgets what it is before she can write her idea down. Desperate to remember it, she consults numerous experts in various fields, without success. When she is ready to give up, a mysterious consultant approaches her, claiming that he can help her recover the idea. Before she considers the implications of his offer Catina finds herself transported.

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49. Crevasse III - Revenge [ 34:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Marco had been top ranked in player verses player one on one in the MMO Crevasse for over a year until a nobody with GM like powers poned him. Everett, the lead designer of Crevasse, lost his job over the negative reaction to his updates in Crevasse II. Mad at the studio that creates the game, Everett leaves an Easter egg in the code for the next release that has some unexpected results during a PVP match between Marco and the player who defeated him.

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48 Time Shift [ 29:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth.

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47. The Caretaker of Destiny [ 27:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years.

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46. The Top of the Sky [ 34:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun.

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45. Hale Bopp [ 30:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In an attempt to regain its reputation as a leader in space research and exploration, the ancient Institute of Solar Studies in Babylon puts all its resources into a mission to the newly discovered comet Hale Bopp to study the object’s unusual behaviour.

The mission is a success but the outcome is not what Fath Shah, the institute’s director, had planned on.
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44. A Crime in 3D [ 22:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella “Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.” The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott’s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote “The Theory of General Relativity” which discussed the possibility of a fourth dimension. Since then several films and animations have been made based on Abbott’s novella.

This month’s story revisits Abbott’s flat universe from the point of view of a down and out private detective in search of his first big case.

43. Ghost in the Machine [ 22:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

History is littered with discarded technologies and obsolete skills. In the last few decades whole industries have been swept away by ever moving waves of change, and it seems unavoidable that today’s high tech is destined to become tomorrow’s landfill or does it?

In our story this month new meets old, makes friends and finds something valuable in the obsolescence of the recent past.
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42. The Citizen's New Town [ 28:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes, the idea that humans could extend their brains using the net and mass hypnosis.

Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of the project of century when her implanted communications chip starts to malfunction affecting her perception of reality.

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41. The Last Astronomer [ 39:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made, that we should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between a two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited.

The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect Aliens. The scientists eventually succeed but not through the actions they had intended to use.

Standard Podcast [ 27:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After narrowly evading capture Maya and Tim arrive in New Hudson only to run into the man who had been following them in Waystation. The man claims that he is working with Maya’s parents, but neither Tim or Maya trust him. As the man drives them to Hudson Beach, in theory to meet Maya’s parents, Maya receives a text message warning them to be careful and advising her and Tim to try and escape.

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Standard Podcast [ 42:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar, are his mother’s best chance for recovery.

Alonzo believes that the treatment is a hoax and sets out to prove it, but accidentally finds out the algae can do a lot more than heal ill people.

38. Dreams of a Life [ 29:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Aura lives with her mother and brothers making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park called Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends.

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36. Lifeboat [ 34:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960’s many may have felt that a Mars mission was no too far off, but since that time no human has left near Earth orbit.

On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem.

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35. The Shadows [ 25:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Maya and Tim live in a future that is powered by coal, kids over 8 must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems.
Tim’s parents died after an apparently random traffic accident, leaving him alone, and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college.

When two mysterious customers from Europa Café show up in the lobby of the building that hides Anneita’s secret archive she forces Tim and Maya to leave. While on their way back to the café Maya feels that they are being followed, and when they arrive at the Europa they find it closed and Maya’s mother missing.

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34. Return to Strt [ 10:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An astronomer, watching for near earth objects, makes a shocking discovery which forces Adrian out from hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have lead to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned.

This episode revisits the original series from year one.

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33. C11s Quest [ 26:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11 one of the landing group’s communication nodes attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest.

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32. Universe 8.1 [ 20:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns management insists on a last minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that change does more than they had intended.

The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe is might be similar to a holographic projection and discussion around our house on recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned.

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31. The Archives [ 26:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Maya and Tim live in a future that is powered by coal, kids over 8 must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems.
Tim’s parents died after an apparently random traffic accident, leaving him alone, and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college.

After receiving an unexpected message warning him to check the server logs at the café, Tim and Maya go to meet the mysterious sender, who initially appears to be a bag lady, but is in fact from an old eccentric wealthy Way Station family. She takes Tim and Maya to the disused top floor of the Ashton Towers, where she reveals her involvement in a hundred year old society that is trying to understand the actions of an elusive and dangerous group which has been apparently changing history.

Tim’s gopher server project has inadvertently brought him, Maya and the café under the scrutiny of this organization and the Europa café’s future may be threatened as a result.
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30. Invasion [ 16:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A 500 hundred year old terraforming project is derailed by an imminent invasion. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the true nature of the threat and its real implications for the future of their civilization.

This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is an single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry then our own.

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29. A Hole in Space - Pt. 2 [ 25:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After being sucked into a wormhole, created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in lost laundry. The local inhabitants, who are ungulate like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova is was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pleas to stop the down pour of unwanted hoof warmers. Opick, the herd leader, is convinced that Luke could not possibly be the sky Alpha they have been waiting for and holds him captive. Len, Zara and ADA are then forced to improvise a way to negotiate a solution.

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28. Perspectives & the Mission [ 13:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month we present to two short stories. In first one called, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in depth space. This story evolved out of a one of David’s writing assignments at school.

In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th anniversary.

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27. Surveillance - Way Station [ 23:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should and this spooks Maya. After hearing about them Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings then is spooked himself by an unexpected message.
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26. Laika - Dog From Space [ 15:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A passing celestial being is trapped by earth’s gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program in order to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission that carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957.

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25. A Hole in Space [ 28:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a number of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space.

As they start repairs Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world.

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24. The Shimmering Field [ 16:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations too pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences.

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23. Europa Cafe [ 23:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station – a place out of time where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation and adults don’t seem to remember what really happened in the past.

One night Tim discovers someone has been breaking into one of his personal online projects and so begins an adventure that takes them both into a hidden world of intrigue.
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22. The Boy Who Loved Candy [ 13:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions.
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21. Hyper Nova [ 30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Luki is given his first true command of a star ship and is immediately plunged into a major mission. With the help of his less than loyal crew he completes the assignment but inadvertently creates a new potential problem.
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20. Mirror Image [ 20:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sareen is mysteriously transported back in time to a version of her home world that is not entirely correct. The planet is ruled by a group that she has never hear of so Sareen sets out to figure out what is going on.

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19. Voluntold [ 26:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

During what turns out to be an extremely slow side trip to the home planet of two rogue space probes, Ada receives a coded message that orders them to stop what they are doing and launch a rescue mission to pick up an important executive officer. Reluctantly Luki and Len then set out in a shuttle to pick up their mysterious passenger.

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18. The Endgame [ 25:12 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

When an unexpected message from deep space turns out to be a Triffal ship Amos must change his plans and as a result he finds himself with less than a day to locate his missing artificial intelligence, wrap up his work and be extracted by the rescue team. Amos looks for Raymore to help him with his new plans, but he finds that mysteriously Raymore has entered the simulated world were apparently he has trapped the renegade artificial intelligence.

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17. A Turn of Events [ 21:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Imprisoned in a GEAA simulation Tim, Maya and Adrian become the focal point of two competing forces. Raymore finds the artificial intelligence and starts to get it to reveal the encryption keys to Amos’ secret research, however he is distracted by an unexpected event.

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16. A.I. Dreams [ 16:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

AI Dreams is the third installment in a series of bedtime classics adapted to the Makeshift Stories universe. In this episode, loosely based on the popular folktale of the Ginger Bread Boy, Amos creates an artificial intelligence that escapes taking his secrete research with it. Distraught Amos enlists Raymore to help him, but Raymore has other plans.

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15. The Four Keys Pt.3 [ 21:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After his odd encounter with Annie, William starts pressing Tim for the information that she gave him, but Tim is left wondering who to trust. Then unexpected events – which Tim suspects are not random – place him in a situation where he is forced to make a decision that he feels he may regret. As a result his choice Tim inadvertently takes Adrian, Maya, Padget and William to the heart of the machine world.

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14. The Other Story - Space Junk [ 13:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After being picked up by an automated rescue ship Luki, Zara and Fritz start to settle in to a routine when an unexpected crew member is discovered. An accident then sets the small group off in a new direction.

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13> The Four Keys Pt.2 [ 25:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After Adrian is shot by an arrow Tim uses his new found power to save him. As Adrian revives William insists that they all come with him to his ship before the main Elfin raiding party arrives. The small group then scrambles through the back alleys of Claring trying to reach the river front before the invaders. Narrowly escaping as the Elfin soldiers pour onto the river peer they set sail to find the first key. Once underway Tim decides to tell Maya and Adrian about his revelation.

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12. The Other Story - Luki [ 12:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Luki -The Other Story is the first episode of an alternate storyline. At the end of episode 11 as the Sodality are about to leave Ceres three of their members accidentally discover an alternate means of escape. The trio is in turn rescued by an officious artificial intelligence.

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11. Echoes [ 27:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After many nights exchanging stories Sareen tries to explain to Effie why the Sodality ended up exiled on Ceres. The answer is not something that Effie easily accepts and it changes her feelings toward Sareen and the Allusions. Meanwhile a Sodality exploration team finds an abandoned project that holds the possibility of an escape from the tiny ice world.

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10. The Four Keys - Part One [ 29:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Maya, Adrian, and Tim arrive in a new world that Tim feels is vaguely familiar. Before they figure out where they are or how they got there, they are mistaken for fleeing labourers and chased by a disagreeable lord. A member of the Merchant Guild intervenes and helps them escape, only to deliver them back into harms way.

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9. Orph The Emerald Planet [ 21:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Orph The Emerald Planet is the second installment in a series of bedtime classics adapted to the Makeshift Stories universe. Based on the 1907 story by Laura E Richards The House with the golden Windows from a book of short stories with the same name, it presents the archetypal irony that grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.

Sareen tells her apprentice Fox a legend about the origins of the Sodality that she heard from Effie while Marooned on Ceres.

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8. GEAA [ 26:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After being caught in the Europa Café Tim, Maya, and Adrian are flown to G.E.A.A. head office. They are told that those who see the mysterious leaders of G.E.A.A. are not allowed to leave. Facing their fears the three meet the senior G.E.A.A executive officer and find out who is behind the organization that should not exist in Tim and Adrian’s world.

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7. Sticky Space [ 12:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sticky Space is a special episode in memory of Henry Hume. The story is based on an Uncle Remus tale that Henry use to tell us as at bedtime.

Sareen, now retired, tells her apprentice how she and a colleague once used Adrian’s curiosity to try and capture him. But like Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear they are outwitted.

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6. Off Course [ 32:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After escaping from Ceres Tim and Adrian arrive home to a foreign world where they never existed. Tim has trouble accepting the situation, but they start to learn how to survive there. When they set out on a quest to discover what went wrong they run afoul of the local authorities.

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5. Solstice - Makeshiftstories [ 36:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Adrian finds a way to travel to Ceres and bring Tim home, but Sareen discovers what Adrian is up to and convinces Effie and the Sodality to intervene. When Adrian is confronted by Sareen  he is forced to make a quick decision with uncertain results.

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4. The Sodality - Makeshiftstories [ 19:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Margot’s unexpected return to Ceres creates an opportunity for Amos and Tim to make a highly risky escape. After regaining her memory Margot (A.K.A Sareen) intends to go after Tim so she can send him home, but Effie informs Sareen that Amos and Tim’s chance of surviving their trek is next to nil and if Effie is right Margot will never be able to leave Ceres.
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3. All Hallows Eve [ 23:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sareen’s plans, made over several generations, come together on “All Hallows Eve” to bring the target of her 1000 year quest to her doorstep. Adrian who has been hiding for centuries fails to see the trap being laid and inadvertently allows himself to be discovered, but no one wins and the game of cat and mouse continues.

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2. The Escape [ 19:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As Tim, the newly arrived giant, repairs the damage he caused his captor, Amos starts to explain the history of the Triffals on Ceres, however, both are captured by Amos’ enemies. An unexpected event provides an opportunity for a risky escape.

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1. The Arrival [ 17:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tim a giant by local standards finds himself on the small icy world of Ceres without any memory of how he got there and who he is. He has literally dropped into the middle of a conflict and is taken in by one side. Having inadvertently destroyed some of his hosts property Tim agrees to repair it in exchange of a place to sleep.

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