Variant Frequencies » Season 3

All The Time

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?
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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

Cut Man

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

Rick Stringer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:21:36 +0000

Savage circumstances can make for strange allies. And sometimes, those allies shouldn’t exist.
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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

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Birth and Death

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.
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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

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.
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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

Murphy’s War
Copyright 2008 James P. Hogan
http://www.jamesphogan.com/

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

Hit Me

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.
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Written by Christa Faust
Narrated by Leann Mabry

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

Hit Me
Copyright 2008 Christa Faust
http://www.christafaust.com

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

Spired

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.
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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

The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness

Rick Stringer — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:11:47 +0000

As a special gift to all our listeners this holiday season, Variant Frequencies is happy to present THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS, an exclusive 10,000-word eChapbook written by Matt Wallace and available as a free .PDF download.

As a black snowfall blankets the Failed Cities on Christmas Eve, the arrival of 99 mysterious steel chambers sets a series of far from blessed events in motion. Eight people become links in a deadly chain that will either tether innocent lives to safety or strangle any hope for their future. And as each part of the story unfolds, we learn that above all things, Christmas in the Failed Cities is a feverishly struck balance between the constant threat of violence and the
briefest, most bittersweet moments of joy.

We hope you enjoy this unique addition to the Failed Cities universe.
Happy Holidays from all of us at Variant Frequencies!

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Paid In Full

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.
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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

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.
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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

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?
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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