Six Realities

6 episodes

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Synopsis:

We'll never see floating skyscrapers, bright orange grandmothers, humans born fully grown, or film strips growing like grass. Still, we can't speak for all of the other realities out there. Let's open a window in space-time and see how different human life can get from what we know. What I can't promise is that our own reality is any less weird than the ones in these six stories. New episodes every Sunday at 8 am from November 30th, 2025, through January 4, 2026. Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Language: English

Format: Audio Book

Continuity: Anthology

Writing: Scripted

Voices: Solo

Genres: Multigenre

Soundscape: Voices only

Completion status: Not applicable

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Episodes:

Work Friends

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000

When Clara moves to Boston for a job as a photograph printer, she finds a friend in her coworker, Anna. The two begin to collaborate on a project assigned to Anna: capture the "realest" possible Boston in photographs. Anna's appetite for reality knows no bounds. Clara, on the other hand, worries reality might be too dangerous for exploration.

Credits:

Mark: Derek Urichich
Macy's Shopper: Cinthya Zeledon
Macy's Employee: Jon
Bald Investor: Jeffrey Hopkins
Frizzy-Headed Investor: Tina Marie Serra

Song: "Wonderful," 1966. Brian Wilson (composer & original vocalist); Van Dyke Parks (lyrics); John Lawson (new vocals). No copyright infringement intended. I do not own this song. All rights belong to their respective owners.

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Landman

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

The Land Man follows a 23-year-old narrator as he tries to sustain a marriage to a woman beyond his maturity. He earns his keep as factotum for a psychotic land man who finds something that isn't land at all. Unfortunately for the narrator, he and the Land man have more in common than meets the eye. Listen if you like movies without images and reindeer that move in clockwork choreography.

Credits:

The Land Man: Pete P.

Colts Nelton: Paul Sullivan

Claire: Rachel Horvit

Registrar of Deeds: Erin McCready

Emissary of the Registrar of Deeds: Tyler Crews

Lease Salesman: Christopher Allison

Basement Bystander #1: Winston Bribach

Basement Bystander #2: Cinthya Zeledon

Song: Jelly Roll Morton and His Hot Peppers, "Dead Man Blues," Take 2, recorded September 21, 1926.

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Migration

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Aurora wakes up human in the Jurassic. What exactly is she supposed to do with as complicated and cumbersome an enclosure as a body? As she figures out what food is and what legs are used for, she meets dinosaurs, troubleshoots a box of recording tape, and sets out to make a campfire at the bottom of a lake.

Credits:

Aurora: Allison Cossitt

Anita: Erin McIver

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Island

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Setto treks up and down a mountain to find a bookmaking master. He learns how to paint the pages of a book with words and finds that book covers are made via a disturbing technique. Soon he falls for Jessana, who lives in a cube and rewrites Setto's entire perception of his homeland.

Credits:

Music: Mozart, Serenade in E-Flat Major, K. 375, V. (Allegro), Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet, recorded May 19, 1978.

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Sacrifice

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Valentine never wanted this assignment. Still, bullets don't take no for an answer, so here he finds himself on some godforsaken isthmus with a concrete wall around it. What is the point of this place, anyway? What exactly do they do to people here? Poor Valentine couldn't figure it out in a million years, but it's coming for him all the same.

Credits:

Amelia & Registrar: Allison Cossitt

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com

Orange Yia Yia

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Fil has never thought much about his grandmother. Sure, she's bright orange and unusually large, but the woman is no more than a face from an old photograph or two. Then she appears on his doorstep. Fil's mother turns into a different person overnight, and something in the air changes for the worse. You never know what's lurking in your genes…

Credits:

Piano: Stan O'Beirne

Song: "I Ain't Agoin' to Weep No More," (1901). Harry Von Tilzer (composer); Dan W. Quinn (original vocals); George Totten Smith (original lyrics); John Lawson (new vocals, new lyrics).

Audio Production: Cinthya Zeledon

Story & Narration: John Lawson

Get in touch with John at: john.lawson81798@gmail.com