When Everything Cracks
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Creator: Duncan MacLeod
Historical Single-voiced Serial Audio Book
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I've been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. I can leave any time, but they won't let me. If I don't escape, they'll keep me here forever. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I take the medicine they give me, my brain will be replaced with cotton. So yeah. I'm crazy.
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Serial
Voices: Single
Genres: Historical
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Episodes:
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:42:00 +0000
A familiar, shaky feeling returns, leading Duncan on a dubious date with destiny.
Please note - This marks the end of Book I - 5150. We will continue with Book II - Half at the beginning of November. Remember to Like and Subscribe if your podcasting platform lets you do that. Then you'll be informed when the new season commences. Did I just overexplain how podcasting works?
 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:39:00 +0000
A surprise inspection leads Duncan to drink a gallon of cranberry juice.
 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:35:00 +0000
Duncan is enlisted in a double-blind study. It's the blind leading the blind.
 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:04:00 +0000
Duncan has an unpleasant clean-up project, and bemoans the woes of Adult Day Care.
 Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:50:00 +0000
Dixie introduces Duncan to her "children" who inhabit the pages of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
 Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:49:00 +0000
Duncan gets to leave the hospital and move to his new digs at Northeast Lodge. A bowl of strawberries connects him to his past and gives him hope for the future.
 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:44:00 +0000
Word of Warning - the Audio was recorded using the wrong microphone, but I was able to mostly "fix it in post." It's so hot, I also had to have a fan running which made for some annoying background noise.
Three weeks late - Chapter 18
Duncan gets bad news from Columbia University, then catches a cab to Northeast Lodge for a second interview.
 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:50:00 +0000
I find my journal. I still have this journal. The entries are verbatim. I kept two journals during my episode. I often wondered if it was a symptom of my disorganized mind. Also, I get a glimpse of light at the end of the psychotic tunnel.
 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:49:00 +0000
The responses to the social security questionnaire are taken verbatim from a sheet I found. I didn't make anything up! The guy WAS cute, and it was sad that my station in life prevented me from asking him out on a date.
 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:48:00 +0000
This chapter needs very little introduction, since the main plot point is in the episode name. It's a sad but touching story.
 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:43:00 +0000
Duncan is recovering after getting his head smacked into the pavement by a hot San Francisco cop. He knows where he is. A series of visitors leads him to a light at the end of the tunnel.
 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:58:00 +0000
Duncan's show of best behavior pays off. They give him an envelope and cash and escort him off the ward so he can buy everyone their cigarettes and candy. The plan launches with disastrous results.
 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:52:00 +0000
Duncan gets a visit from Brenda, Sue, and Donny. He takes a huge risk and tells them about his plan.
 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:45:00 +0000
Duncan does his best to be the ideal captive aboard the spaceship. Betsy has let him know he can make it out if he's good. But Jimmy Simple isn't buying his act.
 Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:58:00 +0000
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In this chapter, Duncan meets Betsy, a telepath in a wheelchair. The time-loss intervals grow shorter. She tells him to make a plan and to stay away from the free hand-rolled cigarettes. Duncan grows fond of Jimmy, despite his flaws.
 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:53:00 +0000
In blips and blackness, Duncan discovers he's in a different kind of facility. Although it is obvious to the reader that he is hospitalized, Duncan has a different opinion which continues the delusion that he is on an alien planet. Duncan meets a strange, adorable young man named Jimmy Simple, who helps and protects Duncan while he's vulnerable and needs guidance.
 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:32:00 +0000
The title of this first volume of "When Everything Cracks" is "5150." The title comes from the form a jail facility must fill out to transfer an inmate to the psychiatric hospital. This is the chapter where I am 5150'ed. In real life, the call to my Grandmother really happened, and that is how my identity was finally revealed to County Jail and General Hospital.
 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000
This planet sucks! I get shuffled from room to room, kicked, cursed out, my head held to the floor, and worst of all, I give away my dollar bill and remove my ID bracelet, so I'll never be president.
 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:50:00 +0000
It's just like it sounds. Aliens dressed as cops abduct me while I switch identities from Gertrude Stein to Andy Warhol (Harlow, just to confuse them). I can fly. The trip to the new planet is much shorter than I expected. Cracking continues.
 05 - Duncan Ends, Gertrude Stein Begins
Sun, 28 May 2023 19:41:00 +0000
Now that I know where itts att, the cracks widen, and everything falls apart. I'm Gertrude Stein. I belong at the Top of The Mark, where aliens will easily abduct me. You get the idea.
 Sun, 21 May 2023 19:37:00 +0000
I'm suddenly struck with an idea. It's the beginning of the cracks that formed in the sidewalk of my brain. It progresses until I suddenly figure out where itts att.
 Sun, 14 May 2023 19:29:00 +0000
In a misguided attempt to escape imminent financial doom, Donny and I decide to hop a boxcar to Los Angeles, with disappointing results.
 02 - Let’s Submerge (Goin' Down to the Underground)
Sun, 07 May 2023 19:43:00 +0000
Donny and I get our Goth on at the Underground, where we meet up with Lola and get high. As I wake up out of my opium cloud, I see and hear things that may not really be there. I'm cracking.
 01 - Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches
Sun, 07 May 2023 19:40:00 +0000
Intro to Series
"When Everything Cracks" is a mental health memoir set in Old San Francisco. Duncan MacLeod, the author, reads his manuscript. Be prepared for a strange trip, as the narrator grows unreliable during a psychotic episode lasting several months.
Chapter One
Meet Duncan MacLeod, a nineteen-year-old gay man living in 1980s San Francisco. He's broke and hungry and just lost his job at the Stud Bar. After a chance meeting with a rail-riding hobo and visiting a witch's dingbat apartment for a seance, the seeds of his undoing are planted.