Beat The Heat With FInished Audio Fiction — The End #93

Featuring BIRDS OF EMPIRE & LIARS & LEECHES; + 5 complete series, 3 finished seasons, and 3 season restarts!

Evo Terra
5 min readJun 14, 2024

With apologies to my readers in geographies where winter approaches-it’s hella hot here. Yeah, yeah… I’m the one who decided to live in Phoenix, Arizona. I’m not looking for your sympathies. Just griping about the heat. Which I will do from now until October. 🥵

A huge thanks this week to Briar for becoming our latest Individual Supporter! Your support helps us keep the lights on around here, and your name has been added to the listing along with our other supporters. Thank you! And if you want to be like Briar-and you really, really want to be like Briar- it’s dirt-cheap to support us!

On a personal note; my mood is improving. I suppose I need to give some credit to adjusted meds. But I think a lot of if is from binge watching crazy animated series every night. If you haven’t seen Scavengers Reign, you haven’t been subjected to the weirdest series now streaming. Doesn’t matter if you watch it high, drunk, or sober. You’ll feel like you are on the trippiest of trips!

Let’s get into it, shall we?

- Evo

Featured Recommendations

I’ve listened to every episode of these shows, and proudly recommend them to you. As with all things in life, YMMV.

Birds of Empire • 🦅🐏🐻🐺 Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series from Jason Lew & QCODE. A rich and expansive audio experience, filled with intrigue, action, and a multi-threaded storyline. Perfect for binge-listening! All episodes of Seasons 1–2 available as of 22 Feb 2024. Listen to the 28 current episodes in 13h 48m. Next season: Slated for Dec 2025.

Liars & Leeches • 🧍🏿‍♀️👁🕴 Dramatized supernatural horror series from Hemlock Creek Productions This slow-burn suspense thriller keeps you guessing and kept me listening to the end. All episodes of Season 1 available as of 16 Jun 2023. Listen to the 10 current episodes in 4h 08m. Next season: Slated for Oct 2024.

Featured Collections

Check out these collections to find your next finished audio fiction fix!

TV Tropes (But For Your Ears) • Current title count in this collection: 21

From the golden days of 3-channel broadcasting to today’s fractured world of streaming services, TV shows are a staple for billions of viewers around the world. This collection of audio fiction shows take their inspiration from formats that were originally conceived of and perfected (?) for TV viewers.

It’s All Fun and Games Until… • Current title count in this collection: 25

Anytime a TV show, book, or movie is centered around a game of some sort, you know it’s going to be an exploration of things going wrong. Sometimes bad. Sometimes horribly bad. It’s much the same in the world of audio fiction, and here’s a collection of shows that do just that. Make your choice.

This Week’s Season Finales

Deathless • 🎆☠️🚫 Improvised sci-fi interview series from M. Rowan Meyer. Based on an award winning screenplay, currently under option and being developed as a tv series. All episodes of Season 1 available as of 10 Jun 2024. Listen to the 17 current episodes in 6h 26m. Next season: Slated for Oct 2024.

On The Tinsel Front • 🎥✈️🤣 Dramatized historical fiction comedy series from Christopher Bomba. All episodes of Season 1 available as of 8 Jun 2024. Listen to the 5 current episodes in 2h 31m. Next season: Slated for Jun 2025.

Returning With New Seasons Next Week

Season 6 of The Amelia Project, a dramatised comedy from Philip Thorne and Oystein Ulsberg Brager & Imploding Fictions, starts on 14 Jun 2024. Catch up with the current 72 episodes in 43h 36m. ☕️⚰️🍫

Season 2 of Reformation Abroad, a dramatized scifi series from Stove Leg Media, starts on 17 Jun 2024. Catch up with the current 5 episodes in 1h 26m. 🚀🗡️✊

Season 2 of E.A.T.I., a dramatized scifi cosmic-horror mystery series from “Myster”, starts on 18 Jun 2024. Catch up with the current 7 episodes in 1h 11m. 🤔😯😱

Just Added

TWITS, A Steampunk Distraction • ⚙️🎩😂 Radio play comedy series from Tom Alan Robbins & Broadway Podcast Network. This features the voice talents of some of Broadway’s biggest names. All episodes of Seasons 1–2 available as of 29 Apr 2024. Listen to the 10 current episodes in 4h 05m. Next season: Slated for Oct 2024.

I think I’ve met you but also know I haven’t • 😊😜🤦‍♂️ Narrated mocumentary series from Brothers Ger and Martin O Malley & Malbay Studios. Reached number 5 in the Irish podcast drama chart. All 6 episodes of this limited series are available as of 10 Apr 2024 for a listening time of 1h 58m.

The Extraordinary Globe of Tom Bobbajobski • 😆😁🤪 Narrated slice-of-life absurd and touching comedy series from Tom Bobbajobski, Daniel Williams, Anson Pavlov, and Huron City Radio. Made by the award-winning production house, Huron City Radio. All episodes available as of 5 Apr 2024. Listen to all 13 episodes in 2h 43m.

Rolling Calls • 📞📱😂 Radio play comedy series from Gordon Greenberg, Steve Rosen, and Broadway Podcast Network. Starring Tony Award winner Julie Halston and Richard Kind. All 6 episodes of this limited series are available as of 10 Nov 2022 for a listening time of 2h 25m.

As The Curtain Rises — Broadway’s First Digital Soap Opera • 🎭😂🎤 Dramatized Broadway satire from Mark Peikert, Dori Berinstein, and Broadway Podcast Network. Cameos cameos, get your star studded cameos here! All 12 episodes of this limited series are available as of 6 May 2021 for a listening time of 5h 08m.

Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors • 🦇🩸🏰 Dramatized horror comedy series from Gordon Greenberg, Steve Rosen, and Broadway Podcast Network. Recorded entirely in quarantine and one of the first Broadway content to be produced for the world after the industry shut down in March 2020. All episodes available as of 22 May 2020. Listen to all 4 episodes in 1h 35m.

Check out the 93rd issue for links to listen, descriptions, artwork, and more at https://www.theend.fyi/newsletter/beat-the-heat-with-finished-audio-fiction

That’s it from The End for this week. See you next Friday!

Originally published at https://www.theend.fyi.

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Evo Terra

Professional contrarian. On a mission to make fiction podcasting better. he/him. คุณ | https://theend.fyi | https://home.social/@evoterra