Variant Frequencies

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

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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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 VF109: The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness [55:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 VF101: The Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness - Ethan [21:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In a seaside town, a young man finds the world around him frozen in time.
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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

 

 VF099: Out of Time [25:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.
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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

 

 VF092: Naught But Ash [24:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

When the world is about to be destroyed who finally decides who lives… and who dies.
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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

 

 VF090: Fuel Pressure [16:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well Told Tales has a fun series that they have been running called “I Killed Awesome Man.” I’m a guest voice in episode 5. http://welltoldtales.com/2009/02/05/i-killed-awesomeman-episode-5/

“I Killed Awesome Man” is written and produced by Finn Colgan. It is the story a mild-mannered comic book shop clerk who accidentally kills his favorite superhero…  then must assume his identity to save the world.

It is a fun story in the style of an old-time pulp serial. Check it out, it is a lot of fun.

Visit www.ikilledawesomeman.com for more information.

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.
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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

 

 VF080: Creature of God [55:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The latest Pseudopod story, “Front Row Seats” by Scott William Carter, features Rick Stringer as the narrator. We thing Variant Frequencies fans will like this story.

FRONT ROW SEATS by Scott William Carter

Daniel lingered in his cramped office at the University of Minnesota long after the other professors in the Math department called it a day. He was still there when all the lights under all the doors winked out and the parking lot outside his window was a bleak, snow-draped emptiness. He was at his desk when old Cal Thomas from Geography shuffled past, taking his incessant coughing with him. He stayed until the equations on shifted lattices turned to squirrelly nonsense, lines and squiggles on ruled pages, until finally he felt the thing creep into his thoughts, that black starfish wrapping its prickly limbs around whatever memories he chose to dwell upon, making his ears ring and his eyes water.

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?
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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

 

 VF072: Queue [26:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Anne and I had a wonderful time talking with Stephen Kilbride, the host of the excellent Tea and Chat podcast. So, you want to know more about how we started Variant Frequencies? Here is your chance. If you liked it, please let Steve know.

Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, Steve recently interviewed Matt Wallace.

 

 Tea and Chat: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download