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Jon and Stephen Recorded Readings
by Stephen A. Roddewig
No ads. Ever.Stephen writes them. Jon narrates them. You listen to them?Limited run fiction series with seasons themed around different genres (history, humor, horror). New episodes air weekly for the duration of a season.Credits:- Voice narration by Jonathan Kilgore- Stories written by Stephen A. Roddewig unless otherwise noted- Cover photo by Matt Botsford and licensed through UnsplashAll copyrights belong with their respective creators
Episodes
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S4 E6: Operation Walleye
Content Warning: This story contains blood, graphic imagery, violence, and murder. Listener discretion is advised. When his helicopter is blown out of the sky on a retrieval mission, a Delta Force operator must battle pursuing Libyan soldiers and the environment in equal measures. Bleeding and...
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S4 E5: Looking from the Depths
On a covert mission to photograph the wreck of a Soviet submarine on the sea floor, Chief Signal Officer Carey Willow discovers it’s not just the camera looking down. Something is looking back at them from the deep. Now awoken by this intrusion into Its domain, Carey is the first to hear the...
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S4 E4: Lurking Shadows
Content Warning: This story contains blood, graphic imagery, violence, and murder. Listener discretion is advised. A down-on-his-luck police officer finds himself assigned to the graveyard shift, casting him into the middle of a duel between exhaustion and boredom. Until one night the doldrum of...
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S4 E3: Rebirth
Content Warning: This story contains violence, graphic imagery, depictions of war, and allusions to murder. Listener discretion is advised. A combat veteran returns home after many months away at the front. The inhabitants beyond the door of his flat are not expecting his arrival, especially…
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S4 E2: SEALAB IV
Content Warning: This story contains blood, death, graphic imagery, and allusions to cannibalism. Listener discretion is advised. Navy divers manning a top-secret underwater lab discover they are not the only intelligent life forms plumbing the depths for knowledge. And unlike the human...
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S4 E1: In Him, We Know Freedom
Content Warning: This story contains blood, graphic imagery, violence, torture, and allusions to cannibalism. Listener discretion is advised. An escapee from the prison camp of an authoritarian state, we join our haggard protagonist as he stalks the streets of the crumbling nation’s capital. His...
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S3 Bonus: Dwellers of the Underworld
For this bonus addition to Season 3, we present two additional stories for your listening pleasure, neither long enough to warrant its own episode and together… still not long enough to be considered a true episode. Thus we present a bonus helping of comedy to go along with the main course we…
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S3 E8: My First Day (The Finale)
For the eighth and final episode of Season 3, we conclude young Jason’s first assignment as junior and senior Nightingale, now armed with a plan to flush out their target, do what they do best: wanton violence. However, the golden-locked girl that confronts them turns out to be more of a mask for…
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S3 E7: My First Day (Part 2)
For the seventh episode of Season 3, we rejoin Jason Nightingale as he settles into guard duty. But our go-getter knows better than to sit idle. On the agenda: archery practice, discussions of unconventional foods, and self-esteem exercises for a certain bear cub feeling down on his romantic...
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S3 E6: My First Day (Part 1)
For the sixth episode of Season 3, we join a youth from humble origins who is eager to climb the ranks of an up-and-coming private security firm known as the Nightingale Agency. Young Jason brings several advantages to the organization: no family, no friends, and no ties to otherwise distract him...
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S3 E5: Free Market Man vs. Communistress vs. Tariffs
For the fifth episode of Season 3, we have a triple header. That’s right, not just one, but three stories unified by theme and even recurring characters. That theme? Economic satire. Proceed at your own risk. You’ve been warned. For our first stop, a dastardly scheme unfolds against the innocent...
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S3 E4: Fourth Wall
For the fourth episode of Season 3, we visit the far-off future to join the CEO of SimCorp at an inflection point in his posh life built off deluding the rest of the globe. SimCorp, a corporation that has grown wealthy and powerful on the mass production of virtual reality technology. The world...
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S3 E3: The Last Comment
For the third episode of Season 3, we join the Earth after the bombs of The Final War have ceased falling and the irradiated dust left over from the Very Bad Week has settled. The final vestiges of humanity have emerged and set to work on rebuilding that which represented the greatest epoch of...
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S3 E2: Stonewalling
For the second episode of Season 3, we ask the age-old question: If walls could talk, would they turn out to be opinionated know-it-alls eager to talk a haggard detective’s ear off about all they had picked up from watching Jeopardy! for decades on end? That’s right, we’re taking the “If walls...
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S3 E1: One Unchecked Box
For the inaugural episode of Season 3, we ask the age-old question: does being the best magic wielder truly earn you the title Chief Sorcerer when everyone on the planet is learning it from scratch, including you? Forgotten by their futuristic sci-fi government, the settlers of a desolate world...
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Season 3 Trailer: The Comedy Season
From absurdity to economic satire to meta humor, Season 3 has something for everyone. Unless you hate to laugh, in which case, who hurt you?
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This Podcast is Officially an Ad-Free Zone
Stephen takes the mic for a special announcement and promise: from Jon's lips to your ears, no ads shall ever sully this space for independent writing and narration. Not now. Not ever.
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SPECIAL: Hunters
For this special presentation, we feature our first-ever guest author Matthew Fromm. But fear not: our trusty narrator Jonathan Kilgore remains at the helm. When fire altogether wilder than that brought on by the Santa Ana winds sweeps across Los Angeles, a highly trained and secret team of elite...
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SPECIAL: The Deflation
This week's episode is a follow up to our previous special episode. Following the events of Dick Winchester Book 1 (The Opening Salvo), the war for the soul of the Arlington, Virginia food delivery industry is turning hot. A ragtag band of underground delivery drivers must overcome the combined...
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SPECIAL: The Box with No Name
This week's episode is a special feature that may be some of the best comedy writing I've ever done. "The Box with No Name" created title character Dick Winchester, a protagonist so zany and fun that he in turn inspired me to create the Dick Winchester Adventures, a series that just debuted with...
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S2 E5: Sinking Prospects
This week's episode is a special feature near and dear to your author. "Sinking Prospects" not only netted me my first ever Vocal challenge win, Runner Up in the Vocal Ship of Dreams Challenge, but it also inspired an entire series around our indomitable protagonist Martin Williams that is now...
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S2 E4: He Who Fights
This week's episode follows a fictitious figure during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Though our protagonist Ezra and his actions are the product of the author's imagination, they are based on the real heroes who fought back against their Nazi captors in the dark days of 1943. You can read the…
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S2 E3: Sasha's Sacrifice
This week's episode follows the sailors of Oyster, a lifesaving ship stationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. When a distress call goes out that a merchantman is sinking in a winter gale, Oyster's crew jumps to, unaware that they will soon come to face with the United States' newest enemy…
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S2 E2: Memoria
This week's episode presents Stephen's first and only fan fiction to date. Inspired by his editing work on Book 2 of the Echoes trilogy, he set out to predict how it would all end in the third and final installment. Along the way, he had a heck of a lot of fun introducing time travel to the…
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S2 E1: The Rocks
This week's episode features "The Rocks," a nautical tale of stoicism and faith in the face of a withering storm set in the 17th century. This story was written for the Vocal Painted Prose challenge and placed 2nd overall. As part of the challenge, "The Rocks" is based off a real painting: Ships…
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Season 2 Trailer: The Historical Season
We're so back (⌐■_■)
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S1 E5: Beyond the Cape
Jon reads "Beyond the Cape," a tension-filled story of a lighthouse keeper on the rocky shores of Maine and his only companion: a shark. View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/history/beyond-the-cape Cover photo by Daniel Gregoire and licensed through Unsplash.
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S1 Bonus: Creative Conversations
Creative Conversations show page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1781288 Creative Conversations, meet Recorded Readings. That’s right, we’re practicing brand synergy by sharing another podcast’s episode (with permission, of course). Fortunately, Stephen just happens to be featured in this interview....
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S1 E4: Dash Point
Jon reads "Dash Point," a tale of the paranormal set in a lighthouse on the tip of Cape Cod. View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/fiction/dash-point Cover photo by Quaid Lagan and licensed through Unsplash.
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S1 E3: Outside Mission Parameters
Jon reads "Outside Mission Parameters," a story based on the final journey of the Space Shuttle Challenger and told from the perspective of pilot and astronaut Michael J. Smith. View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/fiction/outside-mission-parameters Cover photo by...
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S1 E2: Hunting Shadows
Jon reads "Hunting Shadows," a tale of action and suspense inspired by Tiger King and the Zanesville Animal Massacre. View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/fiction/hunting-shadows Cover photo by Geran de Klerk and licensed through Unsplash.
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S1 E1: King of the World
Jon reads "King of the World," a post-apocalyptic tale of survival in the American plains. View the original story on Vocal to read along: https://vocal.media/fiction/king-of-the-world-daxp8e06yo Cover photo by Stefano Valicchia and licensed through Unsplash.
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Introduction
Stephen (briefly) steals the spotlight from Jon to introduce their podcast. Want to get ahead on the reading list before the next episode? Check out Stephen's Vocal profile for the full list of stories featured on this podcast: https://vocal.media/authors/stephen-a-roddewig
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
No ads. Ever.Stephen writes them. Jon narrates them. You listen to them?Limited run fiction series with seasons themed around different genres (history, humor, horror). New episodes air weekly for the duration of a season.Credits:- Voice narration by Jonathan Kilgore- Stories written by Stephen A. Roddewig unless otherwise noted- Cover photo by Matt Botsford and licensed through UnsplashAll copyrights belong with their respective creators
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No ads. Ever.Stephen writes them. Jon narrates them. You listen to them?Limited run fiction series with seasons themed around different genres (history, humor, horror). New episodes air weekly for the duration of a season.Credits:- Voice narration by Jonathan Kilgore- Stories written by Stephen A....
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