If you need help now, call a crisis hotline to get immediate emergency counseling. Hotlines are staffed by trained volunteers with text and chat often available. There are mental health provider directories and substance use treatment locators available. You can access resources for basic needs such as housing and food.
I thought about counting up the total listening time of all episodes in this issue and using that as the title of this newsletter. But the more I looked at the results—40 hours and 31 minutes—the more I thought that might panic some people.
Hey, have you listened to the companion podcast yet? I frequently talk to readers, and most of them say something like "Wait, there's a companion podcast to The End?" And, indeed, there is. Yes, you should give it a listen. New episodes drop every Thursday. And no, it's not just me reading the newsletter. That'd be boring.
And if you've been considering supporting The End with a small contribution, now's a great time. Things are in the works, and it may be worth your while to get in now!
Let's get into the stories, shall we?
- Evo
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What does it mean to have an iron will against society’s status quo? Three playwrights dive into this very question in The Iron Anthology.
Via Brooklyn Theatre Co. presents an audio drama series of three stories that navigate the horrors of brash industrialization, unchecked consumerism, and intergenerational trauma. The protagonists rage against the monsters of society. But is society itself too strong to break?
Grief. Anxiety. Terror. Tonya Wright felt it all after the tragic murders of her sister and brother-in-law in a random act of gun violence. Struggling to travel outside of her home, she now lives constantly on edge about perceived threats that seem to surround her.
Retreating to the house her sister and brother-in-law once shared to process her grief, Tonya soon discovers that someone — or something — has followed her there. With the help of her best friend Natalie, and others she meets along the way, can Tonya overcome her fears before they completely consume her?
The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions, “Liars & Leeches” delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.
If you need help now, call a crisis hotline to get immediate emergency counseling.
Hotlines are staffed by trained volunteers with text and chat often available.
There are mental health provider directories and substance use treatment locators available.
You can access resources for basic needs such as housing and food.
Completed or finale'd shows we've recently added to our audio fiction directory.
A race of highly advanced, two-legged extraterrestrials has come to Earth and taken over without saying a word. Humans are now their pets.
Follow the journey of Merry, an ex-con and recovering addict, between the time periods of 1947 to 1968, from a rarely seen Black woman’s point of view.