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THE LOT
by markus machado
Somewhere between science and the supernatural, between blood and oil... there is another world. A world where the righteous and the wicked collide at the crossroads of destiny...Welcome to… THE LOT. markusmachado.substack.com
Episodes
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The Sculptor; Life in The Fast Lane
As a “Sovereign” Peter LeBlanc might say, do not rest the horses for the gates of success may well be closed if you hesitate or wait. If bleeding for one’s art was a thing then I am NOT leaving one drop of it on the floor— the very best, most fulfilling exhausting thing I have ever done…
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The Sculptor: Fuel Injection
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh...” But tucked away in the shadows of the San Ramon foothills, neurosurgeon Dr. Aris Thorne has chosen to execute a very different, perverted surgical covenant. Driven...
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Blood, Bone & Iron music video
Who would have thought I would end up song writing…Tune in Wednesday night for chapter 2 of The Sculptor, Fuel Injection. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit markusmachado.substack.com
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Fuel Injection.
Doctor Aris Thorne has crossed the bridge of sanity, wandering far from the path of “do no harm.” Join us at THE LOT for Chapter Two of The Sculptor: FUEL INJECTION, and discover just how depraved and horrific indifference can really be. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...
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THE LOT: THE SCULPTOR
Mary Shelley began writing her famous novel Frankenstein in the summer of 1816. A summer that never came. An eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora in 1815 was so catastrophic that it blanketed the Northern Hemisphere in volcanic ash, blocking the sun, collapsing harvests, and causing one of the...
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THE LOT: The Sculptor
Mary Shelley began writing her famous novel Frankenstein in the summer of 1816. A summer that never came. An eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora in 1815 was so catastrophic that it blanketed the Northern Hemisphere in volcanic ash, blocking the sun, collapsing harvests, and causing one of the...
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SHE: The Altar Of The Innocent
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” So little of what we think we know of our lives has anything to do with the cosmic, supernatural realities in which we live and are enveloped. The final, definitive chapter of “SHE”. We are right at the redline....
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“SHE”: Altar Of The Innocent
Who's the fairest of them all? In this tale? None who have a name. But isn’t that how it always is? If all life is a stage, then in this final chapter of 'SHE'—Altar of the Innocent—we are about to find out who plays the fool... and who plays the hero… If there really is one. Because in this…
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SHE: Cracks In The Mirror
The proverb “Time waits for no man” tracks back through the centuries to its earliest recorded source in English literature—Saint John Mirk’s Festial, authored around the year 1400 as a warning to mortals about the unyielding, crushing forward march of time. But old Saint Mirk made a foundational...
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THE LOT: “She”
They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned… but ‘they’ have never met a fallen angel whose dignity has been defiled. Here is the finalized cinematic trailer for Chapter One of THE LOT. I wrote and composed this original 1968 Chicago electric blues score from the ground up to anchor this...
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THE LOT: “She”
Peter LeBlanc is driving a triple-black 1961 Jaguar E-Type Coupe straight north into a suffocating wall of Napa Valley fog, its twin chrome center-exit exhaust pipes screaming against the freezing midnight air. The ancient cosmic architect falling victim to his shell of humanity, Peter has spent...
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A Word From Our Founder
PREMIUM AUDIO ANTHOLOGY SERIES Look closely at your signatures, fellow travelers. Every legal title, every pristine escrow clearance, and every ink-wet contract you sign in the bright, climate-controlled comfort of modern society carries an underlying carrying fee. We crawl across the pavement of...
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THE LOT: REPOSSESSION Chapter 3
You believe you are safe because you run with the pack. You think there is shelter in numbers. But you misread the ledger. Birds of a feather do flock together—but it doesn’t mean a sanctuary. It just means when the executioner finally steps onto the concrete, he doesn’t have to waste time…
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THE LOT: Repossession
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” — Proverbs chapter 22, verse 3. For Thomas and Courtney White, the ledger did not open with a terrifying scream or a sudden, violent breach in the midnight dark. No, it opened with the turn of a lock...
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REPOSSESSION: In For A Penny
Oh you can run, and in the interest of good sport by all means DO. But you cannot hide. Amos Chapter Five, Verse Nineteen: “As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.” Such a shame, people should read more....
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THE LOT: Repossession Chapter 2
Welcome fellow travelers of the dark, tonight the illusion of a modern West Coast sanctuary is completely stripped away, and the cold, unyielding reality of a defaulted blood ledger takes center stage. Tonight, Chapter Two of RE-POSSESSED, “In For A Penny,” is live and we will learn that the...
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THE LOT: Re-Possessed Teaser Trailer
Welcome fellow travelers of the dark, the algorithms of the artificed platforms of world will tell you that a pristine mid-century modern architectural sanctuary nestled deep in the Santa Lucia foothills is the ultimate California dream. They will tell you that a solid bank portfolio and an elite...
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THE LOT: Repossession
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST — “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” — Proverbs chapter 22, verse 3. For Thomas and Courtney White, the ledger did not open with a terrifying scream or a sudden, violent breach in the midnight dark. No, it...
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TO KILL FOR: Return To Me
Most people prefer the comfortable, padded illusions of the daylight. They scurry about their short, frantic little lives, terrified of what lies just beyond the high fences of the lot. But you possess a curiosity for the deeper, more exquisite textures of the dark. The Book of Proverbs warned…
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TO KILL FOR: Return To Me
Most people prefer the comfortable, padded illusions of the daylight. They scurry about their short, frantic little lives, terrified of what lies just beyond the high fences of the lot. But you possess a curiosity for the deeper, more exquisite textures of the dark. The Book of Proverbs warned…
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To Kill For: Cellulloid Obituary
It is a terrible thing to stand in a fresh grave and mistake the dirt walls for the walls of your castle. Frank Hammett sits inside the smoky warmth of the Messenger’s Tavern, nursing a heavy pour and talking baseball. Blind to the fact that it is in reality a slow, cosmic burial masquerading as…
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THE LOT: To Kill For — Chapter One
Romans 6:23 : "For the wages of sin is death…” A clean, binary calculation written in the ancient ink of a ledger. But scripture does not always recount the gruesome details of the broad way that ‘leadeth to perdition‘. Or the way a man's hands begin to shake when he realizes the stranger pouring...
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THE LOT: The REUNION, the final chapter
There is a distinct, mathematical geometry to damnation. We construct our elaborate fortresses of vanity, convincing ourselves that if we move fast enough, the friction of our speed will burn away the stench of the soil we crawled out from. We believe the dark belongs to us. But the dark is…
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THE LOT: REUNION — Chapter Three
The Class of 1979 Twenty-Year Reunion was a collection of middle-aged regrets, some trying to fit back into their varsity jackets and others kicking themselves for not saying or claiming things they should have when they were still young. But there still was enough booze, a solid funk band…
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THE LOT: The Reunion, the Final Chapter
Join us Saturday night for The Reunion… The Final Chapter. The hot asphalt of the Los Angeles grid didn’t cool down at midnight; it just radiated a different kind of fever. Standing on the manicured lawn of a pristine, tree-lined suburban block, Karen McDougal could feel the heavy, unnatural…
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THE LOT: The Reunion — Chapter Two
“Proverbs, chapter eleven, verse twenty-nine. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.“ In 1979, the American dream was playing out on morning TV game shows as Monty Hall would stand before a theater of screaming contestants dressed like fools, offering blind trades. Cash in hand…
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THE LOT: 2000 Zero, Zero Party Out of Time
A dark bedroom betrayal. A blood-red Triumph TR7 idling in the grey fog. Unholy fangs lunging straight into the lens. The reckoning for the Class of ‘79 is officially here. The Trailer is live. The party is over… and we are out of time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...
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THE LOT: The Reunion
Walnut Creek, June 1979. A graduation party is roaring down the canyon lane, but the road home for one young lady is about to turn ice cold. For other fools, those who walk this broad, easy road, are oblivious to the fact that their graduation night signature sins have been entered into a ledger....
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THE LOT: Training Wheels- The Meat Wagon
The interest on a dark transaction must always be paid in full. This week on THE LOT, a routine hit-and-run unravels into a clinical, terrifying rewriting of small-town innocence. Sit in the dark as the legendary L72 427 Sting Ray growls into the Napa fog, leaving a broken Hollywood prince to...
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THE LOT: Training Wheels Chapter 1
Before a high-speed impact on the wet asphalt leaving young 9 year old Julian Cross fighting for his life, a far more clinical violence was already taking place behind the closed doors of modern suburbia. He hadn’t just ridden into the dark—he was selected, isolated, groomed and then guided by a...
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THE LOT: Desecration- Brothers in Arms
In the older, darker texts of the Levant, there is a severe warning about the true nature of a bloodline. They tell you that a house divided against itself cannot stand, but they never tell you what happens when the foundation is built on a shared grave. Blood is not just a fluid. It is a ledger....
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THE LOT: Trailer to hell and gone
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THE LOT: DESECRATION- Transaction of Blood
Dr. Jeffrey Hale thought he was a master of the known—until he was hollowed out to serve as a vessel for something that never knew a mother. Across the oceans of time, the Napa asphalt has dissolved into the freezing mud of Senlis. The pyres are lit, the King’s malice is burning, and two...
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THE LOT: Desecration part 2
Dr. Jeffrey Hale is a man of clinical precision, a harvester of history who believes that every relic has a price and every ghost can be dismantled with a diamond-tipped drill. But as a Raven Black Mach 1 idles in the sterile silence of his Napa sanctuary, the 428 Super Cobra Jet begins an…
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THE LOT: Desecration
A midnight-black 1969 Mustang. A Templar relic that was never meant to leave its tomb. And a curse that’s finally coming to collect. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit markusmachado.substack.com
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THE LOT: The Extraction teaser trailer
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THE LOT: The Extraction
The rehearsal is over. In the pressurized silence of The Vault, the ballistics have failed. Lyra and Elias are pinned against the black water of Lake Merritt as the “Altamont Butcher” unzips his final, gruesome form. This is the moment the Songstress finds her true range—the high-frequency...
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THE LOT: Possession
THE BURNOUT. Some machines don’t just run, they remember the oil, and the blood. And some road you go down you don’t drive… they chase you. Lyra and her Uncle Elias are in the redline—trapped between the mechanical violence of a ‘69 L89 and The Altamont Butcher looking for a stroll down memory...
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THE LOT: Possession
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”—Proverbs 14:12 The audit continues. What began as a “Secret Acquisition” on the Exodus lot has quickly devolved into a high-velocity struggle for sovereignty. Lyra and Uncle Elias find themselves on the Silverado Trail,...
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THE LOT: POSSESSION
“December 6, 1969. The music didn’t just stop at Altamont; it was executed in the mud. This 1969 Hugger Orange L89 Camaro was there—a silent, aluminum-headed witness to a cultural homicide. Now, in the fog of 2026, Lyra has come to claim the ‘Grace’ spirit of a lost era. She thinks she’s buying a...
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THE LOT: The Fanboy
The "clerk" is dead. The debt is paid. From the subterranean gloom of the Lair to the salt-crusted iron of Blackwood Pier, Walter Peterson has stepped through the fire to reclaim a legacy written in blood and Cosmoline. But as the Pacific swallows the sins of the Governor, a new shadow falls over...
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THE LOT: The Fanboy
"Yesterday, Walter Peterson was a video clerk filing away colorful lies for three bucks a night. Today, he’s sitting in a supercharged cage of black iron, looking at the names of the men who murdered his father. In the rain-slicked rot of Ashland, the 'fanboy' is dead. And the Raven... the Raven…
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THE LOT: The Fanboy
In THE LOT, we understand as Nietzsche once wrote, "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you” … This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
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THE LOT | The Fastback
A Supernatural Noir anthology centered around the stories behind the steel and glass at Exodus Motors. Hard-boiled stories of 1964 Shelbys, ancient debt, and the absolute consequences of the Moral Law. No 'modernist rot' or corporate fluff—just the high-octane grit of blood, oil, and the certain...
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THE LOT: Sum of One’s Parts
A red haze began to descend, thick and cloying, smothering him like a damp velvet pillow pressed over his face. The air in the bar had turned to a hot, iron-scented soup. Andrew scanned the shifting throng, his eyes darting from one nightmare to the next. [observational] It wasn't just a crowd…
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THE LOT: Sum of One’s Parts
She reached for a small, obsidian vial. Uncorking it, the room filled with the tang of oil and the copper-sweet scent of fresh blood. This was the Quimbanda—the black oil of the crossroads. She pushed him down on the bed, straddling him. Andrew was enthralled, his heart hammering an uneven…
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THE LOT: The Sum of One’s Parts
They say the road to... ’Ruin’ is paved with good intentions. But for Andrew Karpen, the road is paved in red clay, kerosene, and the lies we tell ourselves to sleep at night. He thinks he’s found a ‘kindly’ old stranger. He thinks he’s catching a ride in a simple tow truck. Poor, deluded Andrew....
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THE LOT: FIRST NAME BASIS
Back at the safehouse, the silence was heavier than the smoke. Peter’s body lay prostrate on the floor, engulfed in a ball of yellow flame. For a moment, the world thought debts were settled. Then... he stirred. As he picked himself up, the fire didn't burn him—it obeyed him. He seemed to absorb...
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THE LOT: First Name Basis- Ghost In The Chrome
Somewhere between science and the supernatural, between blood and oil... there is another world. A world where the righteous and the wicked collide at the crossroads of destiny... Welcome... to THE LOT. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
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THE LOT: First Name Basis
He gestured to the empty chair opposite him. As Felix pulled out the heavy mahogany chair, Peter simply smiled as if savoring the moments before a meal. His movement was methodical, predatory, and ancient. A pleasure, Mr. Felix, LeBlanc repeated. It is a shame that British friend of yours…
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Somewhere between science and the supernatural, between blood and oil... there is another world. A world where the righteous and the wicked collide at the crossroads of destiny...Welcome to… THE LOT.
markusmachado.substack.com
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markus machado
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