Stories by @silmarils

The Deca Tapes

Mysterious tapes have been delivered to a news outlet and soon grip the nation. The recordings document the life of ten people who appear to be trapped in an unknown location. Each person has a set of strict instructions they must follow, and they each play a different role – The Cleaner, The Cook, The Teacher. Unaware of the strangeness of their life, they record daily diaries, giving us a glimpse of their confined existence. It quickly becomes clear that something is very, very wrong.

Cryptid Cape

Avra Nunez wants to start over, and Water's Edge just might be the place for that. It also might be home to nymphs, ghosts, and the Jersey Devil.

The Left Right Game

Alice Sharman is a journalist who is investigating the story of a paranormal game which leads to an alternate reality. She joins up with a convoy of paranormal investigators led by Rob to investigate his claims.

Boston Harbor Horror

Coast Guard Petty Officer Alex Devereaux responded to a medical emergency on a small island in Boston Harbor. What he finds on that island is going take him on a journey into depths he never imagined...

1994

1994 is a road-trip comedy set in the spring of, you guessed it, 1994. It follows the adventures of High School junior Scott Sweet and his friends as they attempt to escape the boredom of their dead-end, small-town Arizona suburb by skipping school to go to Disneyland, deliver 20lbs of marijuana to L.A., team up with a bank robber on the lam, escape from angry unpaid mechanics, make a side trip to Las Vegas, accidently take peyote with a traveling band of hippies, avoid the cops, get laid, convince their parents not to ground them when they get home and maybe, just maybe, score enough money to take his high school crush to the prom. Hey, it beats 2nd period algebra!

Return Home

Return Home is the story of Jonathan Barker, who returns to his home of Melancholy Falls, NJ, after five years away. An unknown entity beckons him back East, in order to unravel the mystery of what his home town has become…or has always been. Reunited with his best friends, Buddy and Ami, Jonathan must discover the secrets of Melancholy Falls, and why he was told to return home.

Rex Rivetter: Private Eye

The year is 1955. Tinsel town. The land of make-believe. It's a time of growth in American prosperity. Especially in Los Angeles. Here, dreams are bought and sold. But there's a seedier side to the City of Angels, the shadows where pimps and narcotics pushers live, where organized crime stands just around every corner with one hand out, and the other wrapped around a roscoe. It's a city full of fancy dames and slick cons, where bookies know the vig, so you better, too. Some folks call it noir or pulp fiction. But for a private eye named Rex Rivetter, it's home.

Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye

Cave Carson was once the world’s greatest underground adventurer—but that was a long time ago. When he settled down with his wife, Eileen, to raise their daughter, Chloe, he traded the controls of his vehicle, the Mighty Mole Mark 1, for a desk and keyboard. Since then, Cave has led a quiet life—even with the constant distraction of his otherworldly cybernetic eye. But when a sudden illness claims Eileen’s life, Cave’s tranquil existence is shattered—and he and Chloe soon find themselves hurtling down a terrifying tunnel of danger, discovery, mayhem and madness. At the bottom of that tunnel lie secrets buried for decades—secrets that hold the key to thwarting a conspiracy that threatens to consume the surface and subterranean worlds alike. But will Cave and his intrepid team of super-spelunkers be able to overcome this new generation of evil—or is there less to this hero than meets the eye?

Collapser

There’s a voice in the head of Liam James questioning everything he does—from his job at the nursing home to keeping his relationship with his girlfriend afloat. Liam suffers from anxiety, and the only thing that quiets it is music, which makes a weekly DJ gig his one saving grace. But Liam’s life changes forever when he receives a black hole in the mail, one that takes up residence in his chest, grants him insane superpowers, turns him into a celebrity and draws him into a cosmic conflict beyond his wildest imagination. Where did this black hole come from? Why Liam? Is power the cure? Or will superstardom turn Liam into a black hole himself?

Faeries

After a young woman saves a man’s life, her investigation into what actually happened that day sets her off on an investigation into a secret world of ancient mythological creatures, a strange nursery rhyme that makes children disappear, and a covert and secret arm of the Environmental Protection Agency known only as “The Department,” charged with the protection of a very special type of endangered species: Faeries.

Soft Voice

Lydia was perfect, because Soft Voice told her exactly what to do and what to say. But one day, Soft Voice left.

Oblivity

A disgraced war hero is posted to Pluto on her toughest mission yet: to oversee a small, dysfunctional research team.

Video Palace

When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and dread surrounding a legendary video store with a sinister purpose beyond imagining.

Of Fae and Fiends

Lizzie returns to her ancestral home in Maine to make an amazing discovery: the woods behind the farmhouse contain a doorway to the mystical realm of Faerie. But a dark storm looms over the horizon of Fae: Lizzie’s Great-Uncle Carlow has enlisted a goblin army to conquer the World Tree, and has set his sights set on our world after. All that stands in Carlow’s way is Lizzie and her unlikely friends: a talking goat, and a swordfighting weasel.

Stellar Firma

Stellar Firma follows the misadventures of Stellar Firma Ltd.'s highest born but lowest achieving planetary designer Trexel Geistman and his bewildered clone assistant David 7. Join them as they attempt to take listener submissions and craft them into the galaxy's most luxurious, most expensive and most questionably designed bespoke planets.

The Presidential Dictatorship

A multi-season series chronicling Donald Trump's life, rise to power, his disastrous presidency, and his succession by Joe Biden that almost didn't happen.

Unwanted

Two slackers, Ben and Grant attempt to catch an escaped convicted murderer, Shelly O'Keith, who is allegedly hiding in their town to cash in on the million-dollar reward the police are offering.

The First Mrs. Claus

When it comes to Christmas, we all know the drill: big jolly guy, red suit, workshop full of elves, sleigh pulled by reindeer, and the dutiful wife standing off to the side. But what if everything we’ve been told is a lie? Hot Coco has been sitting silently on this lie for years. She dreamed up the whole shebang -- and then found herself tossed out like a stocking full of coal when her boyfriend at the time, Ari, christened himself “Santa Claus”. Ari stole the entire operation when things took off. He decided to ditch Coco in favor of a new and more proper wife...Carol. Things only get crazier from there as Coco tries to take back what's hers and save Christmas!

From Now

A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks mysteriously​ looking the exact same age as when he left​. Following the ensuing media chaos, he finally reunites with his formerly identical twin brother (now an old man) for a one-on-one meeting. But what starts as a joyful reconciliation soon leads to dark revelations that threaten their relationship -- and the future of humanity.

Cryptic

Cole and Julie Kurtz, a brother-sister team investigate cryptid sightings in their home state of Ohio.