Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 7 - Return to the Other Side

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Mikey is determined to get back through the Arch. He has to help Johnson. He feels unfinished. So he comes back to the lot in the middle of the block and this time, things go his way.

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Into the Dark of the Woods Presents: Paul Bunyan - Spirit of the Woods

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:44:04 GMT

This is a "Third Thursday" featurette that is from our "Into the Dark of the Woods" series that leans heavily into our folklore roots and the story of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. We're offering this to you free of charge until the next Third Thursday comes out for you, our early listeners.

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 6 - No One Believes

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Mikey found his way back home. Now all he can think about is Johnson and how he's going to find his way back through. His friends don't seem to be buying what he's selling though.

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 5 - Home Again

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

It feels like it's been eons since Mikey stumbled through the arch in the vacant lot and appeared in this crazy new world. Now, standing at the opening again, will he be able to go back through and back home?

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 4 - Sisters and Crows

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Mikey is working his loop; working his way back to the arch and back to his home. Along the way he encounters even more of the strange denizens who occupy this world, and pays the heaviest toll yet. 

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 3 - The Loop

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Mikey is lost. He spent the night in an unknown world, somewhere on the other side of the arch that he had been playing in. Now, with his new companion Johnson, the talking fox in an Ohio State University varsity jacket, he has a plan. If he's ever going to get home, he's going to have to find a way to loop.

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 2 - Johnson

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

We see Mikey on the other side of the arch, in the whispering woods, and he meets a new friend. Someone who can help show him the rules and ways of the place he's just stumbled on to. But that doesn't change the fact that he's lost and needs to f

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 1 - Lazy Summer Days

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

"Mikey and the Garden Arch" is a high fantasy, serial drama that posts every other Tuesday. Its a product of Rust Belt Studio

In Episode 1, Mikey is spending a lazy summer day trying to find something to do. His friends are all unavailable, his dad has kicked him out of the house for the day, and he finds himself cruising aimlessly until he stops at their usual hangout - a vacant lot in the middle of the block. There, he's playing around the garden arbor that is all that's left of whatever used to be on the lot in the past. That's when something completely unexpected happens that changes everything.

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Episode 0 - Welcome to the Lot

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:57:21 GMT

Mikey and the Garden Arch is a serialized Rust Belt fantasy about wonder, loss, and the rules of another world. In Episode 0 we meet Mikey, we hear him tell of remembering growing up, and the magic of Summer. It's a prelude to a story about choices, childhood, and what waits for us behind the arch.

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