JL Roberts

A Next Day

Fiction EN ↓ 5 episodes

What happens after the fall of the US empire? When the United States loses its stronghold in the global economic market, and the American people are forced to reckon with who they want to be and how they want to live? A Next Day (AND) is an interactive afrofuturist science fiction series about the origins of Giovanni’s Room, a matriarchal collective that forms in the wake of the collapse of one history’s most powerful regimes. Listeners are encouraged to follow along and send in their story ideas to giovannisroomgcc@gmail.com . Help us tell the tale; help us write the future into existence. Lo...

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JL Roberts

Episodes

AND Part 5 28.06.2026 49:25

In the future, a community member has a surprising breakthrough on day two of Cara's return ceremony. In the past, AJ and Sam navigate complex new feelings, and issues of consent arise. Content acknowledgement: sexual assault.

AND Part 4 03.06.2026 58:59

In the past, Sam, AJ, and Karen discuss more plans for Giovanni's Room. Company Towns and artificial intelligence have come to the USA, and there are fewer and fewer options for people to meet their basic needs. In the future, a GR community prepares to say goodbye to one of its members. The land that was once called the USA is owned by three giant corporations, and the survivors have to battle to...

AND Part 3 27.05.2026 37:53

In the past, Karen, AJ, and Sam go to a pizza place and talk more about their ideas for surviving the end of a world. AJ defends themself against a man's assault, and it is revealed that, in the America that the three are living in, it is illegal to even talk about resistance or revolution. In the future, we learn that there is something a little different about AJ, and that large agricultural com...

AND Part 2 18.05.2026 30:26

In episode 2 of A Next Day, we learn more about AJ's ideas for surviving the end of the world, and the origins of Giovanni's Room. In the future, AJ survives an explosion, and we learn about the precautions that are necessary in the post-apocalyptic world--decontamination, special suits, and quarantine.

AND Part 1 11.05.2026 28:03

In Part 1 of A Next Day, we witness the meeting of AJ, Karen, and Sam at a bar in southern California. We learn the awful fate of the US empire, and flash forward to a dystopian future where violence, pollution, racism, and misogyny have turned the United States of America into a disease-ridden wasteland. This unlikely trio begins a conversation at the bar that will be the beginning of their survi...