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The Cutting Room Floor on Redline Theatre

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:57:13 +0000

Ever wonder what I would sound like as a 70s exploitation film director? Well, this is your lucky day! The guys at Redline Theatre have put together one fantastic story. This one is most certainly not work or kid safe. So, check out this great production by these Parsec Award 2011 Finalists.

RLT016: The Cutting Room Floor
It is 1974 in California’s San Fernando Valley, and veteran film director Roger Adamson has begun production on his low-budget action exploitation film “Candy Dynamite”. Adamson’s old world values are out of place amidst the sleaze of swinging seventies Hollywood. What’s a man to do when his code and that which he holds most dear both end up on the cutting room floor?

*CREDITS*

Written and Produced by Jim Bultas

Music Composed and Performed by Jim Bultas

ROGER ADAMSON: Rick Stringer

NARRATOR: Eric Schulte

CANDY: Michelle Campbell

STEVEN: Justin Warner

DOCTOR DIETER: Eric Schulte

BRICK: Eric Schulte

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Oettle

SOUNDMAN: Chris Stewart

WARDROBE: Barb Schulte

BOUNCER: Jim Bultas

WOUNDED WOMEN: Sarah Rosendahl, Misty Myrick

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REDLINE THEATRE

The 10,000 Horsepower Podcast With a Need for Speed

2011 Parsec Finalist

Website: http://www.redlinetheatre.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/redlinetheatre

Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/rlt-facebook

Google+: http://tinyurl.com/rlt-googleplus

Hunting

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:49:48 +0000

I’m a guest narrator on Pseudopod 228: Flash On The Borderlands VII. I narrated the story “Hunting” by Kirsty Logan.

“There was only one inner door, so the hunter opened it. He held his candle at arm’s length, but still could see nothing more than the foot of an ocean-sized bed. The hunter crawled across its length, disregarding the brief waft of mold from the blankets. He placed the candlestick on the squat table beside the bed and pulled the covers up over his body.”

There are two other stories as well. “What Makes You Tick?” by David Steffan, narrated by W. Ralph Walters, and “Pageant Girls” by Caroline Yoachim, narrated by Mur Lafferty.

Thank you to the wonderful people at Pseudopod who let me play in their sandbox again. We hope you enjoy the stories!

Good Man in the Badlands on Redline Theatre

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:04:12 +0000

There is a fun podcast out there called Redline Theatre. I did a guest part in one of the stories. “Good Man in the Badlands” by Justin Warner, is western tale about about a man trying to do good, and save his son. It has some nice twists in it.

The story was produced, directed, and scored by Jim Bultas. Other voices in the story are: Justin Warner, Barbara Schulte, Jim Bultas, Misty Myrick, Eric Schulte, and Glen Perkins.

The crew at Redline Theatre did a great job with this story. It moves quick, and the voices are excellent. I also really liked the score by Jim Bultas. Redline Theatre is worth checking out. I’m certain that Variant Frequencies fans will enjoy it.

Good Man in the Badlands – Redline Theatre

The Encroacher

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:37:02 +0000

This is a special live recording from Balticon 44. Recorded on May 30, 2010
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Written by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Narrated by Rick Stringer & Michael Spence

The Encroacher
Copyright 2010 Jonathan C. Gillespie
http://jonathancg.net

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2010 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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A World Made of Wax

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:02:53 +0000

This is a special live recording from Balticon 44. Recorded on May 28, 2010.

On Sunday May 30, we will be recording our final episode at Balticon 44.

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Written by Matt Wallace

Narrated by Rick Stringer

A World Made of Wax
Copyright 2010 Matt Wallace http://www.matt-wallace.com

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Noah’s Temple

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:22:01 +0000

In the far future, the last leader of a reviled messianic religious order explores her faith as she struggles to save the planet from an apocalypse.
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Written and narrated by Matthew Warner

Music
Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Noah’s Temple
Copyright 2010 Matthew Warner
http://www.matthewwarner.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2010 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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Dead Hunt by Kenn Crawford

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:46:44 +0000

We have a special treat for you.

A few months back, Kenn Crawford was looking for voices for his new podiobook, “Dead Hunt.” I agreed to do one of those voices. We are sharing with you episode one of Dead Hunt. I think you are going to like it, and if you do be sure to go to http://deadhunt.kenncrawford.com, or soon you will be able to subscribe to the entire story at http://www.podiobooks.com.

“Dead Hunt“ episode one by Kenn Crawford

Off the coast of Nova Scotia on a remote island, a lonely scientist, a powerful computer, a simple mistake. Unleashes a new threat, somewhere in the hills of Margaree.

“Dead Hunt” is Kenn Crawford’s chilling tale of a desperate father’s undying love, a daughter frozen in time, and the small group of teens trapped in the aftermath.

“Everyone makes mistakes. Some are small, some are bigger. My father’s mistake, born of an innocent heart and fueled by sadness, was the greatest mistake. Some thought the death of his little girl drove him to the point of insanity; some thought he was trying to be God. But, this is not how it happened. The truth is, he wanted to save me. To give me life. And, in doing so, everyone was doomed.” ~Robin

Dead Hunt is narrated by R.E. Chambliss (Dreaming of Deliverance), and features the voice talents of: Kimi Alexandre, Brian Brown, Ry Stevenson, Melissa Bartell, Erk and Kim Butler with special guest appearances by Andrew Ball, Arlene Radasky, Judy, Kristopher Lamont, Lindsey Burns, Lisa Tobias, Neil Stringer, Nobilis Reed, Randall Carruthers, Tom Storms and Featuring Rick Stringer of Variant Frequencies as the voice of Professor Patrick Heslin, and introducing “Robin” as herself.

Survivor Guilt

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:57:24 +0000

A wounded man finds himself driven underground, into the purgatory of tunnels that honneycomb the ruined earth. Battling for a life he knows he’s already lost, he is haunted by fever dreams of a time before the Accident: of blue skies, green grass, of his long-dead mother. If the rats don’t get him, if the poison coursing through his veins doesn’t kill him, there are worse things hidden in the depths. Worst of all may be the answers to the questions that have haunted his whole life…
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Written by David Tallerman
Narrated by TD-0013

Music
Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Sound Effects
Soundsnap
http://www.soundsnap.com/

Promo
A Different Point of View
http://www.adpov.net

The Seeker Cast
http://www.seekercast.com

How To Grow Your Geek
http://www.howtogrowyourgeek.net/

The DragonLance Canticle
http://www.dlcanticle.com

Survivor Guilt
Copyright 2010 David Tallerman
http://davidtallerman.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2010 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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Heart of Clay: A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:22:59 +0000

Ever since Saint Darwin returned with harvested seeds from an Egyptian bush that wouldn’t burn, golem constables have worked alongside human and ghost inspectors. They patrol England’s cobblestone streets together, keeping them safe from the monsters the patron saint of scientists exposed to the world. But when inanimate golems are being trafficked by a shadowy group of businessmen dressed up in wicked smiles and sharp teeth, it’s up to the Paranormal Patrol’s newest created member – Constable Lump – to go undercover in the gaslit night and learn where his missing brethren have vanished to, without sacrificing his newfound life getting the answers.
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Written by D.K. Thompson
Narrated by Rick Stringer
Voices: Ali Groves, Marck Pearlstone, Dani Cutler, and Alasdair Stuart
Art: Vincent Chong

Music
Abney Park
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Promo
Dead Hunt
http://deadhunt.kenncrawford.com

Vincent Chong
http://vincentchongart.wordpress.com

Murky Depths
http://www.murkydepths.com

Heart of Clay: A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual
Copyright 2010 D.K. Thompson
http://krylyr.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2010 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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A Real Christmas

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:56:21 +0000

It’s Christmas Eve. Private detective, Dan Taylor is contemplating his past and his future, or lack of one. Then a potential client comes to his door.
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Written by Michael A. Stackpole
Narrated by Christopher Mott

Music
Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Promos
Dead Hunt
http://deadhunt.kenncrawford.com

The Leviathan Chronicles
http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/

A Real Christmas
Copyright 2010 Michael A. Stackpole
http://www.stormwolf.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2010 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness – complete

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:13:27 +0000

The complete Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness in one episode!
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Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Philippa Ballantine, Rick Stringer, Jan Dalton, Tom “Devo Spice” Rockwell, Anton Buntic, Benjamin Grundy, Neil Stringer, Ian Jones, and Anne Stringer

Music

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Mario Ajero
http://marioajero.blogspot.com

Neil Stringer

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 08 – Doctor Lady

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:08:47 +0000

A woman with no name and a past filled with mistakes to atone for. If you’re hurt or sick on the wrong side of the river, the Doctor Lady will fix you up. Tender mercies are the hardest commodities to come by in the Failed Cities, but there are stockpiles if you know where to look…
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Anne Stringer

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Silent Night
http://www.abneypark.com

Mario Ajero
http://marioajero.blogspot.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 07 – Truck

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:20:10 +0000

Any job that involves high-risk and high-speed is right up Truck’s alley, at least for the right price. And it doesn’t get higher in the risk department than piloting a high-tech big rig up mountain switchbacks in a freezing snowstorm. At least until you add one Feral Twin into the mix…
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Ian Jones

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
We Three Kings
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 06 – Ferus

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:03:24 +0000

When you look up on Christmas Eve and see a shape streaking across the night sky above the Failed Cities, it’s not Santa’s sleigh, it’s death incarnate, also known as Ferus…
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Neil Stringer

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Rudolf
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 05 – Operative 853

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:57:45 +0000

Like Santa Claus, The Nicodemus Consortium has their own sack of gifts to distribute on Christmas Eve. Unlike St. Nick, however, the Consortium is willing to do whatever, and whoever it takes to retrieve their stolen merchandise. And Operative 853 is no elf…
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Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Benjamin Grundy

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 04 – Constable Klimenko

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:09:48 +0000

The yuletide spirit hasn’t made Valeri Klimenko any less reluctant to take a dangerous case. Unfortunately it hasn’t changed his luck when it comes to being thrust into such cases, either…
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Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Anton Buntic

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Carol of the Bells
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 03 – Sterne

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:06:01 +0000

Sterne, the hardboiled wordslinger, doesn’t believe in Christmas stories. He’d certainly never write such a tale. Living thru one, however, well that’s another story altogether…
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Tom “Devo Spice” Rockwell

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Dance of the Sugar Plumb Fairies
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 02 – The Maven

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:26:24 +0000

Your sins don’t forget you during the holidays, and for The Maven, master street mediator, sometimes they haunt you in the form of an urgent call to a life-or-death hostage crisis. They say old soldiers never really die. At least The Maven certainly hopes so…
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Jan Dalton

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Little Drummer Boy
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promo
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

***

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness 01 – Ethan

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:38:46 +0000

It’s the holiday season, even under the acid-washed black snowfall that covers the Failed Cities. For Reverend Ethan Grant, the holidays are about balancing brief moments of joy with long nights of blood. And the night has just begun…

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Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer

Sponsor: GoToMyPC
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Music
Abney Park
Winter Wonder Land
http://www.abneypark.com

Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Neil Stringer

Promos
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

Jake Bible’s Dead Mech
http://jakebible.com/category/dead-mech-podcast/

Tuning in to SciFi TV
http://tuningintoscifitv.com/

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The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
Copyright 2009 Matt Wallace
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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TITLE FIGHT: Round 10

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:18:57 +0000

Round #10 – Surprise! It’s the tenth and suposedly final installment of the scifi/mma novella co-written by Scott Sigler and hard-boiled author Matt Wallace.
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Written and narrated by Scott Sigler

Please support Variant Frequencies by supporting our sponsor, GoToMyPC.
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

TITLE FIGHT: Round #10
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Out of Time

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:09 +0000

In a seaside town, a young man finds the world around him frozen in time.
***
Written by Jack Westlake
Narrated by Rick Stringer

Please support Variant Frequencies by supporting our sponsor, GoToMyPC.
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

Promos
The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness

Glitter Girl
http://www.erinobriant.com/

Fiends
http://shadowpublications.com/

Buffy Between the Lines
Podcast Awards
http://podcastawards.com/

Farpoint Media
http://www.farpointmedia.com

Out of Time
Copyright 2009 Jack Westlake
http://www.jwestlake.wordpress.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #9

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:24:01 +0000

Round #9 – It’s the ninth and final installment of the scifi/mma novella co-written by Scott Sigler and hard-boiled author Matt Wallace. Korak the Cutter and Chiyal “The Heretic” North ready to rumble!
***
Written and narrated by Scott Sigler

Please support Variant Frequencies by supporting our sponsor, GoToMyPC.
http://www.gotomypc.com/podcast

TITLE FIGHT: Round #9
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #8

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:39:40 +0000

Round #8 – It’s the eighth installment of the scifi/mma novella co-written by Scott Sigler and hard-boiled author Matt Wallace. Korak the Cutter and Chiyal “The Heretic” North are ready to enter the octagon, and all hell is sure to break loose..
***
Written and narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #8
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
My Channel On Big Contact

Life Insurance

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:00:12 +0000

Just before Hurricane Katrina slams into his New Orleans home, a father purchases an unusual life insurance policy from a voodoo priestess.
***
Written and narrated by Matthew Warner

Artwork: Deena Warner

Music: Digital Juice

Life Insurance
Copyright 2009 Matthew Warner
http://matthewwarner.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #7

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:20:57 +0000

Round #7 – Weigh-ins were always a little crazy. But nothing like this.
***
Written and narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #7
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #6

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:25:08 +0000

Round #6 – The Heretic got what he wanted, but at what cost?

***

Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #6
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #5

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:59:21 +0000

Round #5 – Gredok pays a visit to Doc Patah to make him an offer. Is it an offer that he can refuse?
***
Written and Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #5
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Naught But Ash

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:36:08 +0000

Nothin’ like a good hangin’ to bring folks together. ‘Frontier justice’ is what they called it back in the day. Brutal, maybe, but efficient. Those days are back, but with a twist.

Strangers just ain’t what they used to be.
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Rick Stringer

Music
The songs “Tetrishead”, “Frozen Angels”, “We Insist” & “Exurgency” by Zoe Keating
c 2009 (ASCAP) All rights reserved
http://www.zoekeating.com/

Music by Bandmate Loops
http://www.bandmateloops.com/

Promo
Stranger Things
http://www.strangerthings.tv

Naught But Ash
Copyright 2009 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Title Fight: Round #4

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:07:11 +0000

Round #4 – Controversial GFA champion “The Heretic” Chaiyal North is facing the firing squad as he goes before the Galactic Fighting Council. The fate of his newly-won title hangs in the balance. And whatever their decision, it’s going to be a wild night in the heart of Ionath City. Booze will flow, fists will fly, and we may even run across some old friends, and enemies, from THE ROOKIE.
***
Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #4
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Fuel Pressure

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:00:51 +0000

When the world is about to be destroyed who finally decides who lives… and who dies.
***
Written by Dennis Egan
Narrated by Rick Stringer

Promos
The Leviathan Chronicles
http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/

Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights
http://www.hazydaysandcloudynights.com/

XDM
http://www.xtremedungeonmastery.com/

Fuel Pressure
Copyright 2009 Dennis Egan

http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Title Fight: Round #3

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:00:45 +0000

Round #3 – Warriors are expendable. Quyth legend Korak the Cutter has been called out by “The Heretic” Chaiyal North, the 6′ 9″, 400 pound newly-crowned champion of the Galactic Fighting Association. Will he accept the challenge?
***
Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #3
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Penny Ante

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:50:00 +0000

It’s just a friendly, low stakes game of five card draw. Sure, it’s a weird place for poker, but don’t let that bother you. We don’t bet much because we don’t have much. We’re a little picky about who we let sit in, but it looks like you’ll meet the qualifications, and we need some new blood in the game. You in?
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Ian Jones

Promos
The Parsec Awards
http://www.parsecawards.com

Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
http://www.jchutchins.net/

How To Grow Your Geek
http://www.howtogrowyourgeek.net

The Geekcast
http://www.geekcastonline.com

Penny Ante
Copyright 2009 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #2

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:24:38 +0000

Round #2 – Meet “The Heretic” Chaiyal North, the 6′ 9″, 400 pound newly-crowned champion of the Galactic Fighting Association. Chai is the first Human competitor to capture the interspecies title in a thousand years, but as far as he’s concerned crowns don’t make kings. Chai may be sitting at the top of the GFA heap, but to truly call himself the best there’s one more fighter he must face on the field of battle — Quyth legend Korak the Cutter.
***
Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Matt Wallace

TITLE FIGHT: Round #2
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Jack Wakes Up

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:03:51 +0000

In the three years since Jack Palms went clean: no drugs, no drinking, no life, he’s added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he hits the streets of San Francisco to help a group of Czech drug buyers make one big score, a single drug deal that he hopes will set him up for life.

But when people start turning up dead, and an old nemesis on the policeforce calls, Jack finds himself with just 24 hours to track down San Francisco’s biggest drug supplier or face charges that will put him behind bars.

Only an Oscar-caliber performance will get him through this alive.

***
Written and narrated by Seth Harwood

Jack Wakes Up
Copyright 2009 Seth Harwood
http://www.sethharwood.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

TITLE FIGHT: Round #1

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:30:11 +0000

Round one of the big smackdown in the “Rookie” universe.
***
Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #1
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The Last Kayfabe

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:13:57 +0000

This is a special joint podcast with Seth Harwood’s Crime Wav.
***
Written by Ray Banks
Narrated by Sean “Dogg” Robertson

Promos
Seth Harwood’s Crime Wav
http://www.crimewave.com

Kronos
http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com/

Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com

Well Told Tales
http://www.welltoldtales.com

Penguicon 2009
http://www.penguicon.org

The Last Kayfabe
Copyright 2009 Ray Banks
http://www.thesaturdayboy.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Under The Bed

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:41:39 +0000

Bad Dreams. Shadows on the wall. Things that go bump in the night. Something lurks in the darkness to whisper things no child should hear. To remind young minds of things no child should remember. And to feed. It waits, hungry but patient, in the blackness under the bed.
***
Written by Michael Natale
Narrated by Michael A. Stackpole

Promos
Ad Astral
http://www.adastralpodcast.com

Fortress Draconis
http://www.stormwolf.com

Under The Bed
Copyright 2009 Michael Natale
http://www.seewhatsinmybrain.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Prisoners

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:24:47 +0000

A few weeks from retirement, a scientist looks back at her wasted life with regret. Now, at the end of her career, she is offered a chance to make a real difference to someone. But she’s been safely sheltered for so long… will she take the risk of a lifetime?
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Marilyn Taylor

Promos
J.C. Hutchins’ The Brink
http://jchutchins.net/site/the-brink/

Angel Between the Line Auditions
http://www.angelbetweenthelines.com

Balticon 43
http://balticon.org/

Prisoners
Copyright 2009 Anne Stringer

The Amarant Collection
Copyright 2009 Anne Stringer and Rick Stringer

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Gill Bando

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:48:57 +0000

Not one of the assorted politically motivated killers in this bar knows they’re about to die. But that’s the thing about suicide bombers: you never see them coming.
***
Written D. M. Moehrle
Narrated by Jan Dalton

Promos
Cybrosis
http://www.cybrosisnovel.com/

Balticon 43
http://balticon.org/

Gill Bando
Copyright 2009 D. M. Moehrle

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Creature of God

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:38:39 +0000

A botched deal. A quietly menacing, unholy, fatherly crime boss. A waking nightmare of small-time criminals, gothic bars, and neon churches. Johnny finds himself immersed in a dark, sinister underworld, struggling desperately to hold on as his humanity slips away.
***
Written by Jack Mangan
Voices: Heather Welliver, Kreg Steppe, John Cmar, Matt Wallace, J.C. Hutchins, Chris Lester, Seth Harwood, Neil Stringer, Scott Sigler, and Rick Stringer

Promos
CrimeWAV
http://www.crimewave.com

Adventures in SciFi Publishing
http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com

JT’s Indie Christian Music
http://www.jtindie.com

Creature of God
Copyright 2009 Jack Mangan
http://www.jackmangan.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The End of Flesh – Part Four

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:03:49 +0000

A trail of shed blood and sacrificed flesh, a pound of it his own, has led Detective Jon “Busboy” Pacson to the doorstep of a newer and even more terrifying secret kept by the carrion underground of the future. And the final answer lies Under the Dutchman . . .
***
Written and narrated by Matt Wallace

Promos
The Next Fix
http://tinyurl.com/TheNexFix

The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

The End of Flesh
Copyright 2008 Matt Wallace
http://matt-wallace.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The End of Flesh – Part Three

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:19:37 +0000

After a shoot-out and a close encounter with a butcher knife Pacs has a new clue, but it will take him into the deepest, darkest heart of the carrion underworld: NecroPhasiac. Will you follow?
***
Written and narrated by Matt Wallace

Promos
The Next Fix
http://tinyurl.com/TheNexFix

Playing For Keeps
http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com/

The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

The End of Flesh
Copyright 2008 Matt Wallace
http://matt-wallace.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The End of Flesh – Part Two

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:58:24 +0000

Pacs has been put on the trail of cannibal killers who’ve claimed a high-profile victim: the son of a controversial city councilman. His investigation brings “Busboy” face-to-face with Rosalie Barello, sister to the deceased. Beautiful and enigmatic, will she prove to be his strongest ally . . . or his prime suspect?
***
Written and narrated by Matt Wallace

Promos
The Next Fix
http://tinyurl.com/TheNexFix

Playing For Keeps
http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com/

Scott Sigler’s “Contagious”
http://www.scottsigler.com

The End of Flesh
Copyright 2008 Matt Wallace
http://matt-wallace.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The End of Flesh – Part One

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:06:24 +0000

Meet New York City Police Detective Jon “Busboy” Pacs. Pacs walks a secret beat that takes him through the dirty underground of what may be Humanity’s last taboo. But even in the starved and not-so-distant future, the final taboo is still all about flesh . . .
***
Written and narrated by Matt Wallace

Promos
The Next Fix
http://tinyurl.com/TheNexFix

Playing For Keeps
http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com/

Two-Minute Danger Theater
http://www.twistedmojo.com/

The End of Flesh
Copyright 2008 Matt Wallace
http://matt-wallace.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Best In Class

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:00:28 +0000

700 horsepower. Leather. Fusion-based drive system. And good intentions.
***
Written by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Narration by Chuck Tomasi
Artwork by Paul Drummond

Promos
Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com

Dragon Page With Class
http://www.dragonpage.com

Dunesteef
http://www.dunesteef.com

The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

Murky Depths
http://www.murkydepths.com

Paul Drummond
http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk

Best In Class
Copyright 2008 Jonathan C. Gillespie
http://jonathancg.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Under The Bridge Downtown

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:38:03 +0000

The worst part about his daughter’s death wasn’t the terror of seeing half a ton of concrete separate from a bridge and smash through their windshield. It wasn’t even the deafening crunch when the fragment pulped Jessie’s head and sent her blood splattering over his cheek. It was his initial reaction once the shock wore off.
***
Written by Gary A. Braunbeck and Matthew Warner
Narration by Matthew Warner

Music
Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Promos
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/

Moon Wraith
http://www.curiousecho.org/wordpress/category/moon-wraith/

Under the Bridge Downtown
Copyright 2008 Gary A. Braunbeck and Matthew Warner
http://www.garybraunbeck.com
http://www.matthewwarner.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

All The Time

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:04:16 +0000

The watchmaker’s shop is filled with timepieces of all kinds, from the majestic grandfather clock to the most delicate pocketwatch: all the time in the world. But it’s not the many clocks adorning the walls that give him eternity. Or is it?
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narration by Marck Pearlstone

Music
Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com

Sound Effects
SoundSnap
http://www.soundsnap.com

Promos
The Unbelievable Origin of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid
http://dk-thompson.com/

I Killed AwesomeMan
http://ikilledawesomeman.com/

Young Junius
http://sethharwood.com

Arise Fundraiser
http://arisebiology.chipin.com/2008-09-biology-class

All The Time
Copyright 2008 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Queue

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:28:11 +0000

Waiting in line is an unfortunate reality in modern life. When Frank McMurtry finds himself in a mysterious line with an eclectic group of strangers, he doesn’t want to be there…but is it better to stay, or walk away?
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narration by Rick Stringer

Promos
Zombinc (The Takeover)
http://zombinc.net/

New World Order
http://www.edwardgtalbot.com

Queue
Copyright 2008 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Cut Man

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:25:13 +0000

Every fighter needs a Cut Man in their corner.

This is a special simulcast episode with Seth Harwood’s CrimeWAV, the first series of crime story podcasts on the web. Featuring some of your favorite crime authors in the coming weeks and months and posting a new episode every week.

***
Written by Christa Faust
Hosted by Seth Harwood

CrimeWAV
http://crimewav.com

Cut Man
Copyright 2008 Christa Faust
http://christafaust.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The Destruction of Sennacherib

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:07:22 +0000

19th century London. A place and a history much like the one we know, and yet changed. As a separist army stands poised for war, two words will determine just how far its course will deviate. Lethal Configuration. It’s the key to saving an empire . . . or annihilating one.

***
Written by Bryn Sparks
Narration by Marck Pearlstone and Ali Groves

Music
Abney Park
http://www.abneypark.com

Laura’s MIDI Heaven
http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/

Promos
Brave Men Run
http://www.mattselznick.com/

Staked
http://www.authoratlarge.com/

Brains Matter
http://www.brainsmatter.com/

Requiem of the Outcast
http://www.requiemoftheoutcast.com/

The Destruction of Sennacherib
Copyright 2008 Bryn Sparks
http://bastinadoes.blogspot.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Grounders

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:12:53 +0000

Closing time. Game over. But some people think itâ€™s more than a game. Some people don’t want to go home. They don’t have to, but they can’t stay here. Because you stay too long down here, they send the Grounders.

***
Written by Jonathan McGoran
Narration by Thomas “cmdln” Gideon

Promos
Nobilis Erotica
http://nobilis.libsyn.com/

7th Son Obsidian
http://jchutchins.net

Notes From the Vault
http://www.crescentstation.net/

Tale Chasing
http://www.talechasing.com/

The Command Line
http://thecommandline.net/

The Parsec Awards
http://www.parsecawards.com/

Grounders
Copyright 2008 Jonathan McGoran
http://www.jmcgoran.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Saint Darwin’s Spirituals

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:00:28 +0000

Ghost inspectors and golems patrol the streets of Whitechapel. Prostitutes turn tricks for the fever-dream flesh lusts of the spiritual. And the statue of Saint Darwin, the scientist who broke the barrier between the natural and the supernatural, oversees it all. Now a disciple of Darwin – a woman of skin and bone – follows a trail of blood and corpses over cobblestone streets, hoping to unravel the devastating mystery of her own life.
***
Written by D.K. Thompson
Narration by Rick Stringer, Ali Groves, Dani Cutler, Maia Whitaker, and Anne Stringer
Music by Abney Park
Artwork by Vincent Chong commissioned by Murky Depths
Print version on Murky Depths

Promo
Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/

Saint Darwin’s Spirituals
Copyright 2008 D.K. Thompson
http://krylyr.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Young Junius

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00:32 +0000

Before he got to be big in the San Francisco drug game (JACK WAKES UP), Junius Ponds had to cut his teeth on the small-time capers and crimes of a fourteen-year-old wanna be gangster on the late 80s streets of greater Boston. With his brother Temple just killed, a fresh nine in his hand, and a mystery to solve, Young Junius has one way to go: straight ahead.
***
Written and narrated by Seth Harwood

Promo
Jack Wakes Up
http://sethharwood.com

Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/

Basil Sands’ 65 Below
http://www.basilsands.com

Music – The Podsafe Music Network
http://podsafemusicnetwork.com/

Young Junius
Copyright 2008 Seth Harwood
http://sethharwood.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Tex’s Last Run

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:21:36 +0000

Savage circumstances can make for strange allies. And sometimes, those allies shouldn’t exist.
***
Written by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Narrated by Rick Stringer, P.G. Holyfield, and Anne Stringer

Promo
Murder at Avedon Hill
http://pgholyfield.com/maah/

Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/

Tex’s Last Run
Copyright 2008 Jonathan C. Gillespie
http://jonathancg.net/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

***

Birth and Death

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:39:33 +0000

Birth rules the life of a midwife, but she has also seen plenty of death. When she realizes she is immortal, birth and death begin to look the same. She knows that any new baby she helps bring into the world will die, in time. But she learns to look beyond the spectre of death when she sees the look of bliss on a new mother’s face and gains the wisdom to live in the moment.
***
Written and narrated by Anne Stringer

Cello music by Christine Williams

Promo
Scott Sigler’s Infected
http://scottsigler.com/
http://infectednovel.com/

Seth Harwood’s Jack Wakes Up
http://sethharwood.com/jackwakesup.htm

Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/

Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/

Birth and Death
Copyright 2008 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Murphy’s War

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:36:23 +0000

The Human race has been asking itself “How will it all end?” practically since it all began. But even as our illustrious leaders order the buttons to be pressed for the Big One, the computers entrusted to carry out the apocalypse seem determined to keep us wondering.
***
Written by James P. Hogan
Narrated by TD-0013

Promo
A Different Point of View
http://www.adpov.net/

Jack Palms Crime
http://www.sethharwood.com

Nocturnal
http://scottsigler.net

UltraCreatives Interviews
http://jchutchins.net

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Hit Me

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:31:28 +0000

All of her clients know that anything above her neck costs fifty dollars more. But when a flesh-smashing session with one of her regulars takes an unexpected turn, there’s a lot more put on the line than a broken nose or a crumpled President Grant.
***
Written by Christa Faust
Narrated by Leann Mabry

Promo
Tag In the Seam
http://tagintheseam.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Spired

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:01:09 +0000

Obsession is close kin to determination. For one man, an alien peak seems just another obstacle capable of being conquered with the right set of tools. But any climber will tell you — you don’t want to look back the way you came.
***
Written by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Narrated by John Cmar

Links
Playing for Keeps
http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com

Murder At Avedon Hill
http://pgholyfield.com/maah/

12 Volt Theater
http://www.12vtheater.com/

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness
http://www.variantfrequencies.com/the-failed-cities-monologues/

Wander Radio
http://wanderradio.com/?p=73

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Paid In Full

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:27:01 +0000

She has been called whore, harlot, streetwalker, working girl, doxy, courtesan. All are true. She is also immortal. If a girl is going to live forever, she needs to have a way to support herself. But the world’s oldest profession is a hazardous one, and when her latest client’s perversion of choice is murder, she realizes that life is a gift she wants to hold on to.
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Lorrie Mennenga
http://www.farpointmedia.net
Music: “Division Road” by Mue Sephei
http://www.myspace.com/muesephei

Promos
Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The Mason’s Son

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:52:46 +0000

Mason’s were the engineers of the ancient world. They built wonders out of stone; cathedrals, bridges, castles, and sometimes, for very powerful, secrets. Michael the mason knows all too well that nothing is more dangerous than another man’s secrets.
***
Written by Dennis Egan
Narrated by Paul S. Jenkins

Promos
The Plitone Revisionist
http://www.paulsjenkins.net

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The Rut

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:42:24 +0000

Home to work. Work to home. Rinse, lather, repeat – for the rest of your life. For Thomas Crane, life had become just that: one monotonous day after another. Until one morning when he realized something had changed. Could he finally crawl out of the Rut his life had become, or was he simply doomed to repeat this dreary cycle forever?
***
Written by Michael Natale
Narrated by Michael R. Mennenga

Promos
The Zombie Channel
http://www.zombiechannel.com

Crescent
http://www.crescentstation.net

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Jailhouse Rock – part two

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:36:24 +0000

This is part two of Jailhouse Rock by James P. Hogan.
High above the stormy southern hemisphere of Mars, a routine cargo transport has turned into a high-stakes standoff between Skyguard soldiers and vicious mercenaries turned thieves.
***
Written by James P. Hogan
Narrated by Rick Stringer
With Will Hoffacker, Phil Rossi, Jan Dalton, Jack Ward, Lonnie Ezell, Ciaran O’Carroll, Neil Stringer, and Nobilis

Promos
Jack Wakes Up
http://www.sethharwood.com

Nocturnal
http://www.scottsigler.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Jailhouse Rock – part one

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:55:16 +0000

High above the stormy southern hemisphere of Mars, a routine cargo transport has turned into a high-stakes standoff between Skyguard soldiers and vicious mercenaries turned thieves.
***
Written by James P. Hogan
Narrated by Rick Stringer
With Will Hoffacker, Phil Rossi, Jan Dalton, Jack Ward, Lonnie Ezell, Ciaran O’Carroll, Neil Stringer, and Nobilis

Promos
Crescent
http://www.crescentstation.net

The Sonic Society
http://www.sonicsociety.org

Daughter of the Sun
http://www.lonnieezell.com

Starship Sofa
http://www.starshipsofa.com

Nobilis
http://www.nobiliserotica.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Old Tricks

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:36:41 +0000

Satan has come to St. Jerome’s Catholic School for Girls, and only hitwoman Patricia Sharpe, their least esteemed alumnus, can save the edifice from the Fallen Angel’s influence. But is it the Devil himself that’s taken hold of St. Jerome’s and its students, or just an ancient troublemaker up to old tricks?
***
Written by Matt Wallace and DM Moehrle
Narrated by Leann Mabry
With Matthew Wayne Selznick and Rick Stringer

Promos
Tag In The Seam
http://www.tagintheseam.com

Brave Men Run
http://www.bravemenrun.com/

Murky Depths
http://www.murkydepths.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Mother Tongue

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:32:05 +0000

On a mission to tame a new world, man will turn against man, and even mother nature herself will have her say.
***
Written by Carmelo Rafala
Narrated by Rick Stringer
With J. Marcus Xavior, John Cmar, Jack Hosley, Neil Stringer, Tony McCartney and Anne Stringer

Promos
Kick-A-Thon
http://www.firstgiving.com/ctomasi

Silent Universe
http://www.silentuniverse.com/

Wander Radio
http://www.wanderradio.com/

Heaven, Hell, and Earth
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/heaven-season-three-earth

KnitWitch’s SciFi/Fantasy Zone
http://www.knitwitchzone.com/

Mother Tongue
Copyright 2007 Carmelo Rafala
http://carmelorafala.blogspot.com/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Delve

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:05:24 +0000

Every twelve hours the light above his door burns bloody and bright. Every twelve hours a new batch rolls off the genetic assembly line, the saplings that will grow into a new human race. And every twelve hours Lofgren Stenz must delve, deep beneath the surface of our shared consciousness. The purpose of the delve is simple: To cleanse human nature of its lesser angels, the savage beasts that long ago were given form . . . and nearly destroyed us all.
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer
With Chuck Tomasi, Anton Buntic, Neil Stringer, and Leann Mabry

Promos
Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com/
Tag in the Seam
http://www.tagintheseam.com/
Tony’s Loosing It
http://www.tonyslosingit.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Last Flight of the Esperanza

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:44:44 +0000

Fifteen ships left Earth in search of new places for humans to live. When the Esperanza 15 crashes, only one of the crew is left alive. How will she survive when she is the only human on an entire planet?
***
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Ali Groves

Promo
Moldawer in the Morning Podcast
http://www.moldawer.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Firstborn

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:16:41 +0000

Innocence is the best containment. The ultimate in reform for those who committed the First True Sin: Rebellion. But is an innocent mortal soul enough to contain the dark essence of a Fallen Angel?
***
Written by Michael Natale
Narrated by Rick Stringer
Special guests: Tee Morris, Mur Lafferty, Michael R. Mennenga, and Chuck Tomasi

Promos
The Billibub Baddings Podcast
http://www.teemorris.com/billipodcast/
Pseudopod
http://pseudopod.org/
Slice of Scifi
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/
Radio Yesterday
http://radioyesterday.chuckchat.com/

http://seewhatsinmybrain.blogspot.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

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Maidenhead

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:21:22 +0000

Even the dirtiest business can produce something immaculate.
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Nan Worthington

DZ Allen’s Muzzle Flash
Balticon
The Balticon Podcast
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Slumber Party

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:42:23 +0000

Impulse: a sudden, involuntary inclination prompting to action. Will she resist?
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Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Dani Cutler

http://www.truthseekerscast.com
http://www.theaudioaddicts.com

DZ Allen’s Muzzle Flash

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Anne Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Notes

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:20:02 +0000

Sometimes the right story can change your life. And sometimes it’s too late.
***
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rich Sigfrit

http://www.outcastmultimedia.com/
http://dzallen.blogspot.com/
http://outoftheguttermagazine.blogspot.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Sacrifice

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:30:44 +0000

Father Michael Brannigan isn’t your average priest. Since childhood he’s been a medium, a powerful seer of spirits. But in the jungles of Africa, he’s about to experience something unlike anything he’s ever seen before…
***
Written by Jason McDowell
Narrated by Rick Stringer and Ali Groves

The Joe Murphy Memorial Fund
http://joemurphymemorialfund.org/

Jason McDowell
http://www.myspace.com/jason_mcdowell

HTFib
http://www.htfib.co.uk/index.html

Children of the Gods
http://www.childrenofthegods.net/

The Time Traveler Show
http://timetravelershow.com

Sacrifice
Copyright 2007 Jason McDowell
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace

http://www.variantfrequencies.com

The Dead Man and The Berserk

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:13:46 +0000

We know transhumanism as a philosophical concept, but in one techno-genetic future they’ll come to know it as a plague. And if you think the disease is deadly, wait until you meet the cure…
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Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

Promos
Ancestor
http://www.scottsigler.net

Murky Depths
http://www.murkydepths.com

http://www.variantfrequencies.com

See

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:12:00 +0000

One unusually warm winter morning, she wakes up and finds that something she took for granted — about the entire universe — has radically changed.

It is either the end of reality — or the beginning of a new one…

****
Written by A.R.Yngve
Narrated by A.R.Yngve
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
http://yngve.bravehost.com

PROMOS
The Sci Fi Podcast Network: http://www.tsfpn.com/
The Failed Cities Monologues: http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=110

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2007 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
See Copyright 2007 A.R.Yngve
January 2007

A Story of Kindness

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:02:00 +0000

A traveling salesman learns that a story or two can help ease the burdens of a post-apocalyptic world — not to mention push a sale or two. But, of course, some stories don’t always turn out the way you think….

****
Written by Carmelo Rafala
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
http://carmelorafala.blogspot.com/

PROMOS
The Immortals by Tracy and Laura Hickman
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=76
The Failed Cities Monologues
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=110

Sound Effects from The Freesound Project
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu

Variant Frequencies Copyright 2006 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
A Story of Kindness Copyright 2006 Carmelo Rafala
December 2006

Satin Widows

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:06:00 +0000

It’s October, and in the spirit of the month we’re turning our dial to horror with a story written just for All Hallows Eve. This frightening frequency is the tale of two strangers who meet on a lonely night in a grand old hotel. They’re about to learn that sometimes it’s better to stay home and weather the storm, and that it’s all well and good to go looking for ghosts . . . until you actually find one.

****
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

PROMOS
The Time Traveler Show: http://www.timetravelershow.com

Cell

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:10:00 +0000

Life on the very edge of the solar system is a bleak nightmare, punctuated only by the blissful euphoria afforded by the drug, trace. Andi is a trace addict. Trace is Andi’s only escape from his crushing life. But a new drug is taking hold of Andi. Cell is strong, addictive and, above all else, the cell is being hunted.

****
Written by Darren Reid
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
http://www.myspace.com/darrenreidcell
Skepticality: http://www.skepticality.com

Variant Frequencies (c)2006 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
Cell (c)2006 Darren Reid
September 2006

The Dark Harvest

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:05:00 +0000

Every season it grew stronger.

Every season more children vanished.

Every season the gardeners dwelling grew, forcing the village to retreat its borders, until at last it could shrink no further…

****

Written and Narrated by Adrian Grey Marsden
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
http://www.adriangrey.com/

The Dark Harvest Copyright 2006 Adrian Grey Marsden
Variant Frequencies Copyright 2006 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
August 2006

The Last Frequency

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:47:00 +0000

Spend a night in the far reach with Sherk Maxwell, doctor of broadcast journalism. Sherk is humanity’s last voice of dissent, set forth on a mic and beamed out across deep space to every rift-tripper and manic ET roaming the great void. But as the same slimy threat that evacuated Earth encroaches on Dr. Maxwell’s weird corner of the big black, will it signal the final broadcast of mankind’s last frequency? You’ll have to tune in to find out…

****
Written by: Matt Wallace
Narrated by: Evo Terra
Music by: Cagey House, Neil Stringer & Greg Seaman, Rick Stringer, and The Traverse Symphony Orchestra
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

http://www.podiobooks.com
http://www.sliceofscifi.com
http://www.myspace.com/cageyhouse
http://www.tso-online.org
http://www.gregseamanmusic.com

The Spoils of War

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:12:00 +0000

Pohraen’s childhood was dominated by the interminable war on her planet; only the music of the 100th Day gatherings could lift her mood. Then, in a last desperate arms race, a bizarre turn of events sowed the seeds of change.

****
Written by DJ Burnham
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
http://www.djburnham.com

Variant Frequencies Copyright 2006 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
The Spoils of War Copyright 2006 DJ Burnham
June 2006

Dead of Night

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 06 May 2006 03:36:00 +0000

Every night I strolled the same path, looking for him. The nights were getting colder. Even in the short time I was out, my fingers were aching from it, and I worried that he was frozen somewhere. I didn’t know where to begin to look…

****
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Heidi Jones
Music performed by Neil Stringer
Music composed by Greg Seaman
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Children of the Androphagi

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:36:00 +0000

In the 1930′s 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue was home to the speakeasy. In the 2030′s it’s all about the breakdowns, where they mix biochem cocktails and spark the Ash of the Dead, sucking its acrid smoke through bone pipes. The big ticket is, of course, shooting distilled endorphins. Yes, they’d found the last fix, and it was inside the human body all along.

****
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Anne Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Evelyn

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:06:00 +0000

At least Mom doesn’t walk me all the way to the door. That would be so embarrassing!… They can be stolen away and terrible things can be done to them… I used to be that little girl, the one walking with her mom… What does she think is gonna happen in this dumb neighborhood?… I think she watches the kids walking to school… I wonder if I’ll make it until spring….

****
Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Stacey Griffith
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Absolution Insured

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:16:00 +0000

I’d spotted Carey. He heard the Whirring too. He’d grabbed my baseball bat out of the front seat, and now he was standing, braced against the open passenger side door, in his best Sammy Sosa stance. I couldn’t believe it, not even after knowing the guy for two years. He was actually going to try to tee off on the lo-gi.
****
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Another Man’s Run – Part 2

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:00:00 +0000

You thought that was the sun rising over Saturn and ain’t that a sight when really a superflare of magnesium was covering the approach of a creepy-creeper. And by the time the light dissipated they were right on top of you.
****
This is the second of a two-part podcast.
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
Copyright 2006 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
January 2006

Another Man’s Run – Part 1

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:00:00 +0000

They weren’t family in the office. It wasn’t a brotherhood. They weren’t even friends. But they’d all been assigned a singular shitty fate, and that made them the same. When Management descended to rob a corpse of that departed man’s few meager possessions it didn’t stand with the other postmen. One day all of them would be that corpse.

And there were some actions even dead men jerked at.
****
This is the first of a two-part podcast.
Written by Matt Wallace
Narrated by Rick Stringer
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

Variant Frequencies Intro

variantfrequencies@gmail.com (Rick Stringer) — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Variant Frequencies – Your speculative fiction dial. Find us at www.variantfrequencies.com

Variant Frequencies is a podcast that stretches the entire bandwidth of genre fiction, modulated by a constant element of the fantastic. Every month we give you a new story.

Our goal at Variant Frequencies is to entertain and expose you to our work, and we work hard on every story you will hear. So tune in, turn the volume up, and let some of our weird carrier waves distort your reality….for just a little while.