Ryan Law

Jul 2026 ·Nuclear ·8:22 audio

Hell Truckers

He turned another card. A dog-eared Jack of hearts with a shit-eating grin pencilled crudely onto the vellum. That was a problem, because he already had a Jack of hearts, and he...

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Sep 2025 ·Nuclear ·7:52 audio

The Ridgeway

Four days out and running low on water, but he didn't care. He stopped at the crest of the hill to catch his breath. It was full dark, but his eyes adjusted to the low light and...

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Jun 2025 ·Climate ·16:32 audio

Traveller's Unrest

"Ale's going off," he shouted into space across the empty inn. Beric swilled the last mouthful. There was a sickly sweet taste to it, and it was flat, almost syrupy. Alinor didn...

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Jun 2025 ·Zombie ·13:13 audio

Catch and Release

$18,000 per catch. Less if they're incomplete. Nothing if the head comes off, for obvious reasons. $18,000. More money than most people earn in a year, and all being well, we ca...

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Jan 2025 ·Climate ·6:58 audio

Like Wildfire

The riots were three blocks over and the power was cutting in and out, so she packed her camping gear and drove hard and fast out of the valley, leaving the smog and concrete be...

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Jan 2025 ·Biotech ·13:13 audio

Twenty-Seven Minutes

In this line of work, you think about death every day. You have to. You sign the waivers and the non-disclosures, you take out the insurance policies and attend the procedural b...

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Dec 2024 ·Nuclear ·11:20 audio

The Danger Is Still Present, in Your Time, as It Was in Ours

They watched the kid dig with manic intensity. The pile of dirt next to him had grown to maybe half his height. Some of the soil would tumble back into the hole with every frant...

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Dec 2022 ·Climate ·22:42 audio

The Gates of Morbach

Chains and ropes creaked on the other side of the great gate. Beyond, Grade could hear the sounds of life and livestock, mingling with the rain. He could hear the squawk of poul...

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Dec 2019 ·Climate ·26:20 audio

The Green Priest

Halvar sheltered under the branches of an old willow tree, hidden from sight by a thick curtain of fronds that trailed the river’s surface. His canoe rose and fell with the curr...

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Mar 2017 ·Climate ·26:44 audio

Drowned World

Elani sheltered under the branches of an old willow tree, hidden from sight, her aluminium canoe bobbing on the water. She sat, silent, wrapped from head to toe in thick plastic...

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Mar 2017 ·Climate ·12:20 audio

Desolation

They were called “The Good People”. They turned up at the settlement every six months, near as Arch could tell. They’d travel through the fiercest rainstorms, fight their way th...

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Feb 2017 ·Climate ·6:20 audio

The Watcher

He sat in the hide and watched the rain fall. He watched the big, broad leaved trees shudder with every raindrop, and he watched great evergreens weather the storm without ackno...

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