Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales

Power doesn’t rise on ideals. It rises on moments. The Invisible Hand pulls back the curtain on the machinery behind modern politics—where optics matter more than truth, narratives are engineered, and blood can be just another tool in a winning strategy. Told from inside the room where decisions are made, this story follows the people who don’t give speeches, don’t take credit, and never appear on...

A writer sits down to work. The internet has other plans. Scroll, Click, Repeat is a sharp, funny look at distraction, creativity, and the quiet war between intention and impulse in the age of endless notifications.

In the early hours of a presidential transition, one final tradition remains: a letter left behind in a drawer of the Oval Office. Written in the silence after power, it reflects on choices made, costs paid, and the weight that lingers long after the cameras are gone. The Letter in the Drawer is a private reckoning meant for one reader—now overheard by many.

Graham Sutton thought he’d left that life behind. But when a routine morning turns into a police coordinated pursuit through city streets, markets, rooftops, and crowds, it becomes clear someone believes he’s carrying something worth any cost to recover. The Briefcase is a psychological thriller about surveillance, escalation, and the danger of mistaking certainty for truth—where professionalism,...

Content Warning: This audio story contains depictions of slavery, racial violence, sexual exploitation, and suicide. Listener discretion advised. The Ledger is a powerful historical fiction audio story inspired by true events from 18th- and 19th-century America. Set inside a Southern courtroom, the story follows Samuel Boone, a Black man captured and put on trial to determine whether he will live...

In the summer of 1982, a ten-year-old kid believes one thing with absolute certainty: a brand-new red Schwinn bike will fix everything wrong with his life. To get it, he enters a comedy contest at his father’s failing stand-up club—Johnny’s Laugh Palace—a place that smells like stale beer, burnt popcorn, and stubborn hope. What follows is a rivalry, a humiliating fall, a second chance, a broken mi...

A corrupt senator. A furious crowd. And a reckoning that can’t be outrun. Under a blistering August sun, Randolph Burke stands trapped on the Capitol steps as the secrets he buried finally surface—private contracts, prison labor, ruined lives, and blood money signed in his own hand. The mob below isn’t here for answers or apologies. They’re here for justice, however brutal it may be. As fists fall...

A storm rages. The sea roars. And through the wind and thunder, a voice refuses to be silenced. The Quiet Beyond is a dark, intimate descent into grief, guilt, and obsession—told from the edge of a cliff and the edge of a breaking mind. Eliza is haunted by a whisper that will not leave her, a name spoken again and again, pulling her backward into memory, responsibility, and a love that became unbe...

A missing woman. A frozen forest. A voice that should not exist. When Matthew Connelly follows strange footprints into the woods surrounding Ashford Manor, he believes he’s chasing answers about Alice Ashford’s disappearance. What he finds instead is something far older—and far more dangerous—than a ghost story. A well that whispers. A presence that imitates. A house that watches. As the night tig...

Green Butte is the kind of frontier town where the law arrives late, leaves early, and justice has a price tag. When Silas “Sy” Boone—quiet, wealthy, and quietly feared—is accused of murder, no one is surprised when the town decides he’s guilty… even without proof. Told through the voice of August Reddin, a war-scarred drifter who becomes Boone’s only friend, this dark Western unspools a story of...

David Tollinger woke up late, stepped in cat vomit, wore damp clothes, lost his laptop, missed breakfast, and trusted sugar-free chocolate on the most important morning of his career. Things did not improve from there. This darkly comic short story follows one man through a perfectly ordinary professional nightmare that escalates into total, irreversible catastrophe—right in the middle of a corpor...

What begins as a simple trip to buy a pair of shiny new shoes becomes a life-shaping lesson about dignity, belonging, and self-worth. Through the eyes of a young boy and the quiet strength of his father, Shoes captures a moment of injustice—and the words that helped turn it into purpose. This audio story traces how a single childhood experience echoes across decades, shaping the values of a man wh...

What starts as a harmless lie on a forgotten form quietly spirals into something much bigger. At Briggswell Solutions, no one really knows what they do—only that blame travels fast and accountability never sticks. When one made-up name begins solving problems no one else will touch, the office does what offices do best: it turns fiction into legend. This darkly funny, unsettling workplace satire e...

A grieving parent stands over a bleeding body, convinced vengeance will finally bring peace. It doesn’t. Gold Teeth is a raw, devastating story about loss, misdirected rage, and the moment you realize the person you destroyed was never the one you were hunting. This recording explores how grief warps identity, how influence masquerades as aspiration, and how one irreversible mistake can collapse m...

A meticulously planned bank heist unfolds beneath the cover of fireworks and fog in Victorian London. As crowds celebrate and guards are distracted, four men slip into the Royal City Bank for what looks like a clean, calculated job—take only what they can carry and disappear into the night. But when alarms sound and loyalties fracture, it becomes clear this robbery was never what it seemed. The Lo...

A man rides back into a dying town carrying more than old grudges—and everyone knows it. Dry Gulch has been owned, bled dry, and ruled by fear for too long. When Dennis Calloway returns, the past collides with unfinished business, stolen land, and a reckoning that can’t be avoided. Told through the eyes of the woman who never left, The Beast of Dry Gulch is a Western about power, patience, and the...

A quiet afternoon turns into a full-blown investigation when seven-year-old Malcolm Goldman bursts in wearing a trench coat, a paper mustache, and a very serious accusation: the neighborhood cats have vanished. Armed with a magnifying glass, questionable evidence, and a basset hound sidekick who’d rather nap, Malcolm launches a noir-style case that leads to tuna cans, cookie conspiracies, and one...

On his first day in a new school, Jim doesn’t bring bravado. He brings cookies. Jim’s First Day is a quietly powerful story about kindness as survival, generosity as defiance, and the small rituals that carry us through fear, war, grief, and change. From a lonely classroom to a battlefield, a prison block, and a lifetime of first days, Jim learns - and teaches - that connection often begins with a...