Episodes

Aura lives with her mother and brothers, making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process, Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

After discovering more incriminating evidence against them planted on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents appear. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents, they take the train to New Hudson Beach. Along the way, they are helped by the odd bag lady’s secret organization, but neither Tim nor Maya knows who, other than the authorities, is chasing them or why they have been framed as criminals. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effect...

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960s, many may have felt that a Mars mission was not too far off, but since then, no human has left near Earth orbit. On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing, an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, kids over eight must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. When two mysterious customers from Europa Café show up in the lobby of the building that hides Anneita’s secret archive...

An astronomer watching for near-earth objects makes a shocking discovery that forces Adrian out of hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have led to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned. This episode revisits the original series from year one. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11, one of the landing group’s communication nodes, attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. O...

Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns, management insists on a last-minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that the change does more than they had intended. The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe might be similar to a holographic projection. We have been discussing recent news h...

Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, and kids over eight must work for a living, but reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. After receiving an unexpected message warning him to check the server logs at the café, Tim and Maya go to meet the...

An imminent invasion derails a 500-year-old terraforming project. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the threat’s true nature and its implications for the future of their civilization. This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry tha...

After being sucked into a wormhole created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in the lost laundry, the local inhabitants, who are ungulate-like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pleas to stop the downpour of unwanted hoof warmers. Opick, the herd leader, is convinced that Luke co...

This month, we present two short stories. In the first one, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in deep space. This story evolved out of one of David’s writing assignments at school. In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th ...

A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm, two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should, which spooks Maya. After hearing about them, Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings and is spooked by an unexpected message. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

A passing celestial being is trapped by Earth’s gravity and reluctantly dragged to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog, the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission, which carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premi...

Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a series of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects, causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space. As they start repairs, Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations to pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences. Program Notes And Credits Background au...

Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station, a place in the past where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation, and adults don’t seem to remember what really happened in the past. One night, Tim discovers someone has been breaking into one of his personal online projects. Thus begins an adventure that takes them both into a hidden world of intrigue. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing mus...

Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream, Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects, opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

Luki is given his first true command of a starship and immediately plunged into a major mission. With the help of his less-than-loyal crew, he completes the assignment but inadvertently creates a new potential problem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

Sareen is mysteriously transported back in time to a version of her home world that is not entirely correct. The planet is ruled by a group that she has never heard of, so Sareen sets out to figure out what is going on. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap. Additional sounds from Free Sound Project. Opening theme excerpt from the Song of the Hebrides performed by David Hume Closing theme music By ERH (http://...

During what turns out to be an extremely slow side trip to the home planet of two rogue space probes, Ada receives a coded message that orders them to stop what they are doing and launch a rescue mission to pick up an important executive officer. Reluctantly, Luki and Len set out in a shuttle to pick up their mysterious passenger. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from Sou...

When an unexpected message from deep space turns out to be a Triffal ship, Amos must change his plans and as a result he finds himself with less than a day to locate his missing artificial intelligence, wrap up his work and be extracted by the rescue team. Amos looks for Raymore to help him with his new plans. Still, he finds that mysteriously Raymore has entered the simulated world where he has trapped the renegade artificial intelligence. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures a...

Imprisoned in a GEAA simulation, Tim, Maya, and Adrian become the focal points of two competing forces. Raymore finds the artificial intelligence and starts to use it to reveal the encryption keys to Amos’ secret research; however, he is distracted by an unexpected event. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap. Additional sounds from Free Sound Project. Closing theme music By ERH (http://www.freesound.org/usersV...

AI Dreams is the third installment in a series of bedtime classics adapted to the Makeshift Stories universe. In this episode, loosely based on the popular folktale of the Gingerbread Boy, Amos creates an artificial intelligence that escapes, taking his secret research with it. Distraught, Amos enlists Raymore to help him, but Raymore has other plans. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap. Additional sounds from...

After his odd encounter with Annie, William starts pressing Tim for the information she gave him, but Tim is left wondering who to trust. Then unexpected events—which Tim suspects are not random—force him to make a decision that he feels he may regret. As a result, his of choice, Tim, inadvertently takes Adrian, Maya, Padget, and William to the heart of the machine world. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap. A...