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Everly Heights Tales
by Bill Meeks
Everly Heights, Ohio, where the past clings like smoke, and every escape route loops you back to Main Street. In each standalone episode of this scripted anthology, you'll hear stories set in Everly Heights about growing up, breaking down, and being pulled back to where it all began.Equal parts quirky and tender, these stories drift between the uncanny and the everyday: haunted theaters, fractured families, strange friendships, and the kind of hometown lore that follows you long after you’ve left. Everly Heights Tales is funny until it’s tragic, ordinary until it’s not, and always ready to remind you that leaving doesn’t mean you won't be back.
Episodes
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The Last Chance Detective Agency: Thy Father's House
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...
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The Last Chance Detective Agency: The Case of the Cafeteria Cats
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...
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The Best Chance Detective Agency: Danny Chance Starts Up
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...
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A Secret to Everybody
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'...
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Zarvan's Time Repair
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...
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BONUS: "Infinite Tina: The Empty Place Where Love Should Be" (2016 Table Read)
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...
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Infinite Tina: Let's Get Singular
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...
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Infinite Tina: Welcome to W.E.I.R.D.E.
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…
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Infinite Tina: Worlds Apart
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…
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Zoo of Zero Tolerance
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…
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Generation Gap
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...
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The Art of Being Wrong
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...
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The Storybook Playtime Show
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...
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Make Your Own Luck
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...
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In the Long Run
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...
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Creative Tools, Square Pizza, and the Meeks Multiverse: A Chat with Tom Merritt
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…
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The W.E.I.R.D.E. World of Jim Colvin
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…
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Mr. Matheson's Long Division
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....
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The Half-Life of Hand-Me-Downs
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...
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Abby's Very Special Christmas Eve
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...
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Hot John Hates Holidays
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...
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A Seat at the Enemy's Table
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...
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The Trials of King Sparrow: The Magic Castle
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...
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The Trials of King Sparrow: Left to the Wolves
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…
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Love @ Night with Bernie Love (featuring Dave Theune)
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…
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The Quackening
In "The Quackening," Angela Craig is back in Everly Heights, and she's not happy about it. Sleeping in her old room and haunted by a fresh divorce from her gaslighting ex, Travis, her life is a mess. That is, until she has a bizarre run-in with Beatrix Knapp and her old high school bullies, "The...
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The Museum of What Was
When failing salesman Don House returns to his hometown, he’s confronted by the ghosts of his past. This mini-musical follows a man as he reconnects with a troubled musician, a shady restaurant owner, and his first love, all while exploring if it's possible to ever truly go home again. And stick...
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The Case of White Claw
Tonight, my ghoulish guests, we crack open a chilling case of sorority sisterhood gone horribly flat! When Madison invites her frenemy Faith down to the basement for a taste of an exclusive new White Claw flavor, things get bubbly in all the wrong ways. One sip too many, and the claws really come...
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Paul Zaloom on Beakman’s World, Puppetry, and the Art of Curiosity
In this bonus episode of Everly Heights Tales, I talk to an actor I have an awful lot of nostalgia for: Paul Zaloom, best known as Beakman from the hit ’90s educational series Beakman’s World. This hour-long interview traces Zaloom’s journey from his own “Everly Heights,” Garden City in New York...
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Hey, Marie Molecule!
In the spirit of a classic 90s educational science show like Beakman's World or Mr. Wizard, "Hey, Marie Molecule!" follows a young girl named Eliza, who visits the titular scientist with an anxiety-fueled question: "Will my brother become a super-villain from an X-ray?". With the help of the...
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The Play's The Thing (That Traps You)
Clara, a devoted usher at the historic Cornerstone Theater, uncovers a chilling secret hidden within its velvet seats: a mysterious power that lets audience members live their best life. When curiosity gets the best of her, Clara is drawn into a fairy tale fantasy that feels more real than her…
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Making "Welcome, Freshmen", a Roundtable Discussion with the Cast
In this bonus episode, the cast of "Welcome, Freshmen" celebrates the final recording session with a virtual cast party! Join writer Bill Meeks and the voice actors behind the Special family—Laurin Skarr (Zara), Bill Meeks (Mr. Matheson, Ricky), Sean Siegler (Michael), Kristyna Zahrek (Abby),...
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Welcome, Freshmen
Meet the Special family, a theater-loving, stoner couple and their three very different kids. It’s 1994, and Michael and Jennifer Special are just trying to help fund in the arts in their community, but their son Ricky is on the run from a school bully, and their daughter Zara is betting…
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BONUS: Bill Meeks Talks About Wheeling, West Virginia's Everly Heights Connection With WKKX's Butch Maxwell
Hear more about how Wheeling, West Virginia inspired the world of Everly Heights in this bonus episode. Butch Maxwell, the host of Butch Maxwell's Complete Waste of Airtime, interviews me live on WKKX 1600 AM to chat about the the real-life locations and people that inspired some of the episodes...
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Everly Heights: A Local's Guide
In the debut episode of Everly Heights Tales, third-ranked local YouTuber (and yo-yo enthusiast) Louie Loop takes listeners on a walking tour of Everly Heights. From square-cut pizza served by aspiring actors and the mistakenly named Franklin W. Dixon Memorial Library, to haunted tunnels, statues...
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BONUS: "Gravity" (Everly Heights Tales Theme Song)
"Gravity" performed by Classic Tragic Hero, arranged by Makariah G., Lyrics by Bill Meeks LINKS Everly Heights Join the EVERLY HEIGHTS ARTS BOARD and support the show Buy Mr. Matheson's Arithme-TIPS Comic Collection Subscribe on YouTube
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"Everly Heights Tales" Trailer
Presenting Everly Heights Tales, a new audio drama anthology from Bill Meeks. Welcome to Everly Heights, Ohio: the "Home of the Arts, land of the lost," and according to one viral video, the "seventh-most cursed town in Ohio." You bought the bus ticket, threw the party, and moved three states…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everly Heights, Ohio, where the past clings like smoke, and every escape route loops you back to Main Street. In each standalone episode of this scripted anthology, you'll hear stories set in Everly Heights about growing up, breaking down, and being pulled back to where it all began.Equal parts quirky and tender, these stories drift between the uncanny and the everyday: haunted theaters, fractured families, strange friendships, and the kind of hometown lore that follows you long after you’ve left. Everly Heights Tales is funny until it’s tragic, ordinary until it’s not, and always ready to remind you that leaving doesn’t mean you won't be back.
HOSTED BY
Bill Meeks
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Everly Heights, Ohio, where the past clings like smoke, and every escape route loops you back to Main Street. In each standalone episode of this scripted anthology, you'll hear stories set in Everly Heights about growing up, breaking down, and being pulled back to where it all began.Equal parts...
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Everly Heights Tales is created and hosted by Bill Meeks.
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