VoxTales
By VoxTales
Categories: Fiction
Long-form stories. Original fiction, first-person, surprising endings.
16 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
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- The Transcriptionist's Error Rate
A freelance transcriptionist receives an audio file labeled with tomorrow's date — containing their own voice describing a murder that hasn't happened yet. The client insists the recording is authentic, and the only way to prove it wrong is to let the timeline play out.
- The Memory Pawnbroker's Ledger
A pawnbroker who trades in memories instead of gold discovers a client has pawned a memory that belongs to them — a memory they've never lived. The ledger doesn't lie, but the client's face is hauntingly familiar.
- The Corpus Curator's Tomorrow
A corpus curator for Axiom — the language model that runs half the world's search, legal review, and medical triage — spots something impossible during a routine benchmark: the model hallucinates a citation describing his own private life in perfect detail. His sleep patterns, his caffeine…
- The Evidence Bag With My Name
Evidence technician David Morales discovers a murder weapon from a famous 1998 cold case in his own evidence locker — logged in his handwriting, dated when he was twelve years old. When a mysterious caller directs him to a second etching on the blade, the past and present collide in a case that…
- The Black Box from Tomorrow
Salvage operator Mara Velez hauls in a flight recorder from a colony ship that hasn't vanished yet. The voice on the recordings is her own — giving orders she hasn't spoken, describing a disaster that hasn't happened. But the timestamp on the black box says the wreck is three weeks in the future…
- The Static Between Stations
A radio observatory keeper receives impossible coordinates on an abandoned frequency — each one mapping his own life with surgical precision. When the broadcast names him by a name no living person knows, he realizes the signal isn't coming from outside. It's coming from the logbook in his own hand.
- The Cartographer's Debt
Memory cartographer Elara Voss maps things that don't exist on paper — until a woman who doesn't bleed walks into her shop, and the map she draws starts drawing her back. A fantasy tale about the price of remembering.
- The Handwriting on the Wall
Forensic document examiner Mara Larkin has spent fifteen years reading strangers' secrets in ink and pressure. When a routine suicide note lands on her desk bearing her dead father's unmistakable hand, she's pulled into a case that proves the dead don't always stay buried — and someone has been…
- The Backup I Didn't Make
A legacy systems engineer discovers their air-gapped backup drive has written a perfect copy of their entire life — including future events — while they were asleep. Now a single file appears with a timestamp from three minutes in the future, and the drive is humming a different frequency.
- The Voicemail That Called Me Back
A late-night voicemail from my own number leads me to an abandoned radio station where the dead air isn't empty — it's waiting. What I found in the broadcast booth changes everything I thought I knew about the stories my grandfather told me.
- The Memory Appraiser's Ledger
The pocket watch didn't tick forward. I knew that before I even opened the case, because the air in my shop went cold the way it only does when something impossible walks through the door.
- The Dispatcher's Log
The 911 call came from my own house, and the voice on the other end was mine. I know how that sounds. I've listened to it forty-seven times now, the same way I've listened to every other call that came through this dispatch center in the twelve years I've sat behind this console ...
- The Signal Between Heartbeats
The pulse arrived at 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, buried in twelve terabytes of noise I'd been nursing for six months.
- The Last Message My Mom Never Sent
My mom died three years ago, but her phone still sits on my nightstand, charged and waiting. Last Tuesday at 3:14 AM, it buzzed. A new text from her number: "Don't open the basement door." I stared at the screen, thumb hovering over delete. The basement door has been nailed shut ...
- Don't Answer the Radio After Midnight
Rule one for the night guard at the storage yard: if the radio crackles after midnight, don't answer it. It's just interference.
- The Nightlight Rule
My grandmother had one rule: never sleep without the nightlight on. "Darkness has teeth," she'd whisper, tapping the plastic moon plugged into my hallway outlet. I was twenty-three, too old for fairy tales, so I unplugged it the night she died. The house settled into a silence th...
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