Everly Heights Tales

SEASON FINALE . When former kid detective Danny Chance and ex-FBI agent Melody Trainor stumble upon the Quaker Intercourse Mafia in an abandoned Chi-Chi's parking lot, a scheme to shake Danny out of his driveway goes violently, irreversibly sideways, and the trail leads straight back to 1924 Sobol Street. NEXT TIME: Who knows?   SPONSOR CAST LIST Nathan Beatty - Danny Chance / Henry Duplas Ryanne...

Former kid detective Danny Chance is still taking clients from his dad's driveway. When former partner Melody Trainor blows back into Everly Heights freshly fired from the FBI, their reunion dredges up bad sandwiches, old grudges, and Dick Armstrong, Danny's arch-enemy. NEXT TIME: Melody Trainor makes a deal with the devil to save her former partner-in-fighting-crime. It goes about as well as you'...

Thirteen-year-old Danny Duplas is tired of being just a normal kid. Armed with a metric "ship ton" of dust-covered Hardy Boys books and a signboard in his dad's driveway, he rebrands himself as "Danny Chance, the boy detective with the freaky good luck." From a Swiss Army knife buried in a box of Super Mario cereal to a whirlwind encounter with national media icon "Ask Marilyn" vos Savant, Danny o...

For years, the regulars at Leroy's Pub have treated Zelda Jordan like a drive-thru therapist, spilling their darkest sins over pork rinds and cheap Rolling Rock. Tonight, she's got other plans. Armed with a notebook full of weaponized poetry and a double shot of liquid courage, Everly Heights' favorite punk-rock bartender takes the whole town apart at the Leroy's Pub Open Mic night. A story of a w...

Twenty-four years old and sleeping on his sister Aurora's couch, Jeremy Hahn is exactly the kind of guy who needs a miracle. What he gets is Zarvan, a clock shop owner who may or may not be a cosmic entity, and an offer that sounds insane: go back to 2016, find the moment the whole thing went sideways, and put it right. But one choice leads to others, and as Jeremy takes a speed run at a new futur...

A decade before she became an Everly Heights hero, Tina Infantino was a "multiverse hopper" in several of my unreleased 2016 novellas. In this archival live stream, my wife Anne Marie DeSimone joins our Universe Box podcast pals for Tina's beta jaunt into a surreal Stepford-esque world where a government experiment has turned every citizen into a telepath. Tina must fix a crumbling marriage before...

The woman hunting Tina Infantino across the multiverse has a singular grudge, and she's not backing down. Between a infinite shopping mall, a frozen wasteland with a chilling message, and a full-scale breach inside W.E.I.R.D.E. headquarters itself, Tina's running out of room to figure out what she's supposed to be. A girl who's spent her whole life feeling small finds out she might be anything but...

With Ken gone and the guilt eating her alive, Tina takes Jim Colvin up on an offer that sounds a lot like a job: join W.E.I.R.D.E., save the multiverse, and maybe find her friend along the way. A whirlwind tour of the strangest headquarters in Everly Heights introduces her to a crew of weirdos she didn't know she needed. Then a punk rock troll with a blowtorch takes her along for a field assignmen...

In the fallout of a digital betrayal that’s made her a middle school pariah, Tina meets Ken Sako at the Dixon Park swingset for a big talk, and maybe a fresh start. But something they find in the sand has been waiting for a lonely kid just like Ken, and the friendship that was holding him in Everly Heights is on life support. After a world-weary waitress at Gaston's points them toward a mysterious...

It’s the late 90s, and the World Wide Web is turning Everly Heights into a digital minefield. Tina Infantino is heading for Space Camp, while her best friend Ken Sako is stuck in the Rust Belt channeling his grudge into the hit Game Creation System ZZT from Epic MegaGames. From the cash register at Convenience Market to the pixelated infamy of Princess Puke and the sickening spin of a Space Camp s...

In the shivering shadow of the 1994 "Storm of the Century," thirteen-year-old Marcus finds himself trapped in a drafty Ohio house that feels worlds away from his old life in Texas. From the rhythmic, soulless clicking of a Macintosh mouse... to the stubborn smudge of a colored pencil on a composition notebook... and the static-filled weather bulletins from substitute WART-TV meteorologist Mr. Math...

In the wake of a sudden loss, Ricky Special is trying to balance the books on his grief. After delivering a shocking eulogy at his late mother Jennifer's funeral the young conservative retreats to the only place where things still make sense: the analytical sanctuary of Mr. Matheson’s math classroom. From the the relentless ticking of a classroom clock to the ghostly memories of painted triangles,...

WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE , featuring footage from the original college production.   In the flickering lights of WART-TV 3’s Studio B, Lester Applebottom is fighting for a second act. Once a theater actor whose career ended in purple-and-gold tights and a five-year sentence, Lester has traded his orange jumpsuit for a bowling shirt and a "wack-a-doo" persona to host "The Storybook Playtime Show."...

In the podcast studio deep inside the Franklin W. Dixon Memorial Library, Jeremy Hahn is recording the latest episode of his Dogboy Adventures fan podcast "Greetings from Colta City." He’s invited his theater buddy Clara Danvers on to dissect Dogboy's "subversive" violence, but he didn't plan for the chemistry crackling across the studio in his meticulous show doc. While Jeremy hides behind his fa...

A reunion in a burned-out theater basement forces two former bandmates to confront the lives they picked and the song they never finished. When Marla Harmon returns to Everly Heights for a benefit show for Cornerstone Theater, she finds more than charred Fresnel lights and party snacks. Among the former Rocky Horror cast members in attendance? Calvin Hobbes, her ex-bandmate/boyfriend, now dressed...

Bill Meeks joins Tom Merritt ( Daily Tech News Show ) to address the "dark troll wizard" of the project’s history: the years spent fleshing out his six-year old creative writing project Everly Heights using advanced generative AI trained on his own artwork. Bill explains how the artistic community's reaction to AI tools caused him to rethink his approach and abandon them (for the most part) by lea...

W.E.I.R.D.E. agent Jim Colvin spends his days policing the multiverse, yet he can't find out what his new wife, Ramona, is hiding. His deepening paranoia finds a reluctant partner in Nosloo the Great, a refugee dark troll wizard from the war-torn Land of Fee-Nee who is desperate to return home and save his kingdom. But when Jim hatches a risky scheme to use the wizard to force a moment of radical...

High school teacher Bill Matheson lives for the logic of math, but his personal equation has become a mess of negative numbers. As the town’s resident workaholic, Mr. Matheson juggles teaching high school algebra, the daily grind at The Koffee Shop, and programming lights at Cornerstone Theater. Despite double-checking his work, he’s successfully calculated himself right out of his own marriage! F...

Peter Postal is five years older, a little wiser, and officially free from the state slammer. While working at the Everly Heights Community Center under the watch of Mr. Matheson, a chance encounter with a troubled teen forces him to confront the ghost of his illicit punk rock past. It's time for Postal to prove that even a broken record doesn't have to skip on the same track forever. Join us for...

On this Very Special holiday episode, when eleven-year-old "90s kid" Abby Special is sent to bed early on Christmas Eve, she launches OPERATION: PULP DEFLECTION to sneak out for a late-night screening of Pulp Fiction. But Abby's clandestine Christmas takes a turn for the infringing when Abby gets trapped in an " As Seen on Fantastic Inventions " store with two bumbling crooks. Realizing she's in a...

Experience the infamous broadcast that allegedly got Dogboy Adventures cancelled, presented exactly as it aired following WART-TV's Festive Greetings Holiday Parade. In the shadow of the rusted Curleyworld theme park, former carney Jon "Hot John" Pyre and his son Scotty scrape by in a freezing Winnebago, surviving on cold beans and hard truths. Desperate to give his son a better future, John conco...

Join us at Greco's, where the pasta is hot, the staff is snooty, and conversation is the best thing on the menu. Steve Loop goes to dinner with his high school tormentor Jerome Bentley to answer a question: can an old dog really learn new tricks? Over pizza and other Appalachian delicacies, these two former adversaries navigate the minefield of past grievances, high school swirlies, and the surpri...

Leaving his sanctuary behind, the exiled King Sparrow returns to the wild to reclaim his stolen kingdom. But the forest has grown darker, and the traitorous Captain Sparrow has allied with the wolves to enslave the host within the Great Mountain. No longer just a bird but a vessel for an ancient power, King Sparrow must wage a final war to free his people and exact his revenge. Witness the mythic...

When King Sparrow is betrayed by his most trusted captain, a monarch of the skies is cast to the ground, doomed to wander the forest broken, alone, and certain his reign is over. Struggling through a merciless winter, the injured bird fights to find his way back to his Queen, his host, and the life Captain Sparrow ripped away from him. A fairy tale fable of loyalty, loss, and renewal, “The Trials...

Settle in, cool cats and kittens, for Love @ Night on WART-FM broadcasting LIVE from Everly Heights. Your host, Bernie Love, is live and on the line to help you find your ideal match, keep that spark alive, and make amends when you inevitably mess it up. The evening kicks off with a special remote broadcast featuring three colorful Milwaukee locals (all voiced by special guest Dave Theune from Com...