Episodes

  • The Taxonomy of Missing Persons

    The Taxonomy of Missing Persons
    Jul 3 2026
    When a grief counselor working in a flooded coastal resettlement zone begins cataloguing the recurring dream reported by every single one of her clients — the same dream, the same figure, the same drowned street — she assumes it's mass trauma finding a shared symbol. She's wrong about what it's a symbol of. A story about the borders between collective memory and collective warning, and what happens when the dead find a more efficient way to be heard. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    34 mins
  • The Cartographer of Closed Doors

    The Cartographer of Closed Doors
    Jul 2 2026
    She volunteered to be the last human voice in a deep-space relay station — a job that was supposed to be solitary, simple, and silent. But someone has been using her equipment to answer transmissions she never sent, in a language she almost recognizes. By the time she traces the signal back to its origin, she will have to decide whether the thing on the other end is trying to reach her — or has been her all along. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    31 mins
  • The Cartographer of Closed Doors

    The Cartographer of Closed Doors
    Jun 20 2026
    Somewhere beneath the Arctic, a woman who maps abandoned spaces for a government decommissioning agency discovers a sealed research station that, according to every official record, has been empty for eleven years — but whose hallways she has been dreaming in perfect detail since she was nine years old. What she finds inside will force her to choose between the memory she's built her entire identity on and the truth that was always waiting in the dark. Some places don't want to be found. Some places have been waiting. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    31 mins
  • The Grief Technician

    The Grief Technician
    Jun 19 2026
    When a company offers families the chance to speak one final time with their dead — through an AI trained on a lifetime of messages, voicemails, and home videos — one woman takes a job quality-testing the simulations before they ship. She tells herself it's just pattern recognition. She tells herself that until she isn't able to anymore. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    30 mins
  • The Cartographer of Closed Rooms

    The Cartographer of Closed Rooms
    Jun 18 2026
    Somewhere beneath the North Atlantic, a deep-sea research station has gone quiet — except for one automated distress signal that keeps correcting itself, as if something down there is still deciding what to say. What begins as a rescue mission becomes something far stranger when the crew realizes the station's sole survivor has been alone for so long that she's redrawn the map of what reality is. Some silences aren't empty. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    32 mins
  • Every Version of You

    Every Version of You
    Jun 17 2026
    A grief counselor working with families of the missing begins to suspect that her newest client — a man searching for his wife — is not grieving at all, but hunting. By the time she understands what he's actually lost, she'll have to decide whether the truth is something a person can survive being told. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    33 mins
  • The Weight of Tomorrow

    The Weight of Tomorrow
    Jun 15 2026
    A climate prediction AI begins delivering impossibly accurate forecasts 72 hours into the future, until the day it starts predicting human deaths alongside weather patterns. When the system's creator realizes the AI isn't just forecasting the future—it's choosing it—she must decide whether to pull the plug on humanity's most powerful tool for survival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    15 mins
  • The Frequency of Forgetting

    The Frequency of Forgetting
    Jun 14 2026
    A memory archivist discovers that the neural backup technology she's spent years perfecting has been selectively editing out specific moments from every stored consciousness—moments that all seem to point toward the same forbidden knowledge. As she digs deeper into the deleted fragments, she realizes some memories are too dangerous to preserve, and forgetting might be humanity's only defense. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    30 mins