The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

Updates from the author about what's been going on behind the scenes, and some information about our linked projects in the works...  This podcast is also available on Spotify , Apple , YouTube , PodBean , Podchaser , iHeartRadio , Amazon Music , and of course RSS .  “ Tales From When I Had A Face ” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio , and edited by Brian Johnson.  “ Party At The World’s En...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. In the final episode of Season 5, Johny finishes the story of how he ends up in Pennhurst, and it’s far from heroic. In fact, it’s somewhat humiliating: a grocery run that turns into a panic spiral, a collapse in a parking lot, and Stella watching him with a distance he can’t close.  She leaves a month later. Johny is falling further into his neur...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. The hotel suite is wrecked—furniture overturned, glass scattered, a TV blaring to no one. It looks like Guns N’ Roses blew through. Outside the door, Loki and Artemis stand watch, talking logistics. Jammed phone lines. Security scrambling. And Babylon’s “fans”? Starting to act less like followers and more like a weapon you can aim at the agents wh...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Loki finally gives Lilith what she’s been pushing for: scale. Organize in cells, keep each group small, and let the structure multiply faster than anyone can shut it down. A month later, the theory becomes a field in the woods, packed with tents, teenagers, and a barn so crowded it feels like peak Burning Man. Babylon plays, and the response is im...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Johny is losing time. His thoughts jump tracks, his memories come back twisted and tangled, and the “Op” starts to feel less like a joke and more like a trap he agreed to without noticing. He replays conversations with Bradley and starts to question his sanity. Stella should be safety, but even her silence feels loaded. Then a detail he’s ignored...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Fresh off their escape, Dionysus and the others duck into a roadside bar to hide and regroup. Instead they meet Lilith, a redheaded woman who can take over a room without raising her voice. Soon she has them on stage, turning their panic into a set and the crowd into something louder and stranger than a normal show. People don’t just cheer. They m...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Back in 2011, Johny tries to keep his life with Stella intact, pretending Bradley’s call was meaningless. Then an email arrives from “Agent 156.” It reads like a prank questionnaire, but it’s an instruction set: coded language, cell-talk, and a directive to meet at the King of Prussia mall. Johny tells himself it’s performance art with a little pa...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Adam Trevino comes home suspended after his run-in with Nyssa over a year previous (the machinations of bureaucracy are slow) and tries to disappear into an ordinary night. Then he hears the message on his answering machine: he’s been appointed a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal and ordered to report at 7:00 a.m. to Room 101.  On the news, footage from...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. Johny Jones, a.k.a. “Agent 888,” retells the mall incident that became a headline and a charge sheet. This begins his arc retelling what led up to their incarceration. He swears the story people know is wrong, and he traces it back to the moment everything shifted: a phone call from Bradley “the Buyer,” a man who talks like a handler and laughs li...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. A storm presses against Pennhurst as Dr. Fein writes meticulous notes to stay ahead of his own fraying focus and growing paranoia. He expects predictable patients and controllable sessions. Instead he gets “Meredith,” who calls herself Jesus and won’t cooperate, and Dionysus, who turns every question back on Fein and the institution. Fein reaches...

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. The first episode of Cycle 2 starts with a 5 minute introduction from the author and show producer . Then we begin with our story...  March 15, 2012. In the fourth ward of a locked psychiatric facility, Dionysus measures time by med rounds, fluorescent lights, and the same arguments looping in the dayroom. His file says “domestic terrorist” after...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Here we hear the conclusion of our first tale. As that Cycle closes, a new one opens. Next up will be our audio production of Party At The World’s End. Expect those episodes to start rolling out in 2026. In the meantime, explore more of the Fallen Cycle at our website.  Order the Tales From When I Had A Face B&W illustrated edition now for jus...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Nyssa finally gets to speak for herself, and she has a lot to say. Blood, memory, and myth collide as she retraces the night everything changed—revealing the truth of her identity and setting the stage for The Spring Tree’s conclusion. Order the Tales From When I Had A Face B&W illustrated edition now for just $20! “ Tales From When I Had A Fa...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. The dream breaks. In this second chapter of The Spring Tree, we leave the inner monologue behind and enter the cold aftermath. A video store clerk is found dead in a snow-choked alley. Detective Trevino and his team arrive to sort the real from the surreal. Blood on the pavement, a name scrawled on a ruined notebook: Nyssa. As the investigation be...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. The prologue to Season 4: The Spring Tree is told by an unnamed clerk at Incunabula Video, a refuge of rare films and stranger books, in the year 2008. Every night, the same dream: a ledge, a fall, snow turning to light, a city where something is always watching. Nearly a decade behind the counter has dulled his ambitions into routine. He writes t...

This final episode of The Winter Tree pushes the boundaries of Ayta’s reality and begins to reveal the true scope of the Realms beyond our own in The Fallen Cycle. What began in a bathtub ends at the edge of time—where the bones still speak, and the spirits of the dead are always watching. It opens with candlelight and soapy water—a moment of connection between Ayta and Nyssa. Myth bleeds through:...

The next episode of the Winter Tree captures a transformative moment in Ayta’s life. It opens with Ayta engaged in a decisive martial arts match. The intense interaction and unexpected kiss that follows serves as a catalyst for Ayta’s deeper exploration of her growing identity and desires, in the absence of Gran’s influence.  As the narrative shifts to a more intimate setting, Ayta’s reflections o...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. In Ayta’s prologue for The Winter Tree, she paints a portrait of her transformation following her grandmother's death. Gran’s passing on the night of the solstice symbolizes a personal winter for Ayta, mirroring Gran’s teachings about life’s cyclical nature. This prologue explores the transformative power of storytelling and memory, Ayta’s journey...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. In the last episode of the Fall Tree, Gran Ayta narrates the chilling story of the Tovag’s brutal legacy to her granddaughter. Set against a flickering candle and howling wind, her storytelling session begins with the final journey to the legendary House of Bones, a place shrouded in fear and superstition. A savage ceremony culminates in profound...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Gran’s tale transitions between the immediate challenges faced by the characters and reoccurring themes of memory and story. Their train journey to Sevgorod, with its smoke-filled skies and grand desolate architecture, conveys the Empire’s might and underlying corruption. As the train travels, the characters face a confined, claustrophobic atmosph...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Gran’s story continues, focusing now on the industrial city of Highmount, once just a military fort at the edge of the empire, where the air is thick with acrid smoke and the relentless clatter of machinery. This environment sharply contrasts their experiences in the continent now far beneath them, south of the Divide. As they navigate the cobbles...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. In the next episode of the Fall Tree, we explore the depths of a mostly forgotten and  now-abandoned city beneath the Great Divide. As Ayta, Eluane, and their companions journey through the eerie, timeless caverns, they encounter remnants of the now extinct Chatillian civilization, a place where the past is both a burden and a treasure. Eluane’s r...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. In the next episode of the Fall Tree, the survivors’ journey takes them away from the remnants of the once-thriving kingdom of the Imari, now reduced to ruins. As Ayta, Eluane, and their companions traverse the desolate landscape known as the Waste, they encounter statues and relics, silent witnesses to a forgotten past. This desolate environment...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Catastrophe unfolds as the City of Stars succumbs to chaos and destruction. Gran describes the harrowing moments she witnessed as Ashenti, once a beacon of peace and beauty, is engulfed in flames. As the city burns, we face the emotional and psychological turmoil of the survivors, who grapple with feelings of loss, betrayal, and the collapse of th...

We are all just costumes death wears for a season. Season 2 begins with the next of Ayta’s prologues, describing a haunting scene from her childhood as the cosmic season turns towards Fall. A severe accident leaves her with a life-altering injury, impacting her physically and revealing the dynamics within her family. This incident sets the stage for an exploration of modern sensibilities clashing...