May 9, 2025

“Peculiar Radio” Created by J.K. Robbins

Posted by Ruby Fink in Audio Arts, Featured Posts

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 93.3 WSCP-FM The Scoop rules the airwaves in the city of Peculiar Springs… until 15 seconds of dead air threatens their livelihoods, their community standing, and the station itself. Follow the crew as they bumble in the footsteps of their station founder on a ride that takes them to the most peculiar corners of the Springs.‘Peculiar Radio,’ presented by Lengthy Tangent. This episode contains depictions of death, and simulated emergency vehicles. Listener discretion is advised. Gus takes a tumble. Bardo rises and shines. Mallory gets laid. — Lengthy Tangent presents Peculiar RadioCreated by J.K. Robbins ‘Dead Air’Written by J.K. Robbins and Lowell Flemming Starring… Lauryn Alvarez as Mallory BrimmJ.K. Robbins as Brandon BardoAlyssa Petrey as Mackenzie “Mack” HarrisonKate Sheridan as Tamryn Woods With Jamey Lewis as Gus…

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April 30, 2025

FC’s 2025 National Poetry Month Roundup

Posted by Jack B. Rochester in Featured Posts, Member Writing & Art, Writing

Thanks to Vera West, our Poetry Barista, Malik White, Managing Editor, and PS Conway, Poetry Writer in Residence, for their most excellent curating of poems for this, our fifth April National Poetry Month. And a special thanks for recognizing our support to Ricardo Maldonado of Poets.org. We had so many poetry submissions we couldn’t publish them all individually, so here is a roundup of all the fine poets that could still be published during NPM. And if you submitted to PS Conway’s NPM 5 contest, we’ll be announcing the three winners shortly. Each will receive an autographed copy of his beautiful book – both in words and art – Echoes Lost In Stars. Salvatore DiFalco Lost Among Pines The pines know where they are, perfuming the air between them or exchanging subtle communiqués in a…

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April 28, 2025

I am Conscious, Therefore I Am

Posted by Malik White in Featured Posts, Member Writing & Art, Writing

Thoughts On Why We Are Conscious, by Steve Sangapore *Featured image courtesy of geralt on pixabay.com* What is consciousness? How did life originate? Are we alone in the universe? What is the solution to the marriage of general relativity and quantum mechanics? These are, among many others, some of the deepest wonders the human mind grapples with. Some are fairly recent to our catalog of existential mysteries while others have been with us since our ancient ancestors first gazed up at the heavens. In our modern time, these great questions have been left at the foot of the scientific enterprise as we patiently await new progress and developments that bring us closer to resolving these mysteries. One of them, however, is not like the others. Consciousness and conscious experience are understood as the subjective, intrinsic qualities…

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April 25, 2025

“1232” Produced by RumbleStump Entertainment

Posted by Ruby Fink in Audio Arts, Featured Posts

When the experimental research of a physicist goes awry, his estranged twin children follow him through time to medieval Wales, where a shattered kingdom forces them to confront their broken relationship.Sometimes, it takes getting out of your comfort zone for God to speak to you. In the case of twins Rhona & Flint Thatcher it takes going back in time for God to get a word in edgewise.A time-travel medieval fantasy adventure for all ages. Step into a high fidelity audio epic with a full cast, narration, and an original score. 817 A.D. The young druid, Mryddn Emrys, is held between the demands of his pagan roots, and the call of a burning bush where he hears the voice of God. Cuthrual’s (Lucifer) armor casts from heaven like a meteor; desperately sought by Myrddn’s aunt,…

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April 18, 2025

National Poetry Month – 2025

Posted by Malik White in Featured Posts, Member Writing & Art, Writing

*Featured Image courtesy of Christy Mandin and Poets.org* Fictional Cafe celebrates National Poetry Month for the fifth year in a row. We’re celebrating National Poetry Month once again! If you’d like to participate, feel free to submit your poetry here. At the end of the month, our Baristas will get together and vote on their favorites, with the top 3 poems earning a featured spot on the website. In addition, the winners will receive a free copy of our poetry writer in residence’s book – Echoes Lost in Stars. Good luck, and happy writing! National Poetry Month additional info: here.

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April 12, 2025

Dice Tower Theater presents: Dawn of Dragons

Posted by Ruby Fink in Audio Arts, Featured Posts

Young heroes bound in love and kinship are forced on a quest to discover the truth behind the magic of dragons and seek those that stole it, before their world itself is destroyed by the growing power of the Dark Army. Raised by former knights in hiding, they have grown up taking on different skills, each one unique and valuable to each other. Not only use of magic or mastery of a sword they are also tied to a great destiny. A destiny foretold in lost tomes they have yet to discover, but their world is cloaked in a great shadow that is spreading like a sickness which they seek to overcome. Young Cordelia the fire mage, squire-in-training Benedict, sailor Zorin and the deadly swordmaster Sophie fall under the tutelage of Elloveve Hawklight. a secretive…

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March 31, 2025

PS Conway Named Prez!

Posted by Jack B. Rochester in Book Reviews, Featured Posts, Member Writing & Art, Writing

by The Fictional Cafe Editorial Staff It was an exciting – may we say shocking? – weekend when every minion of the current US Administration resigned in protest, followed by the entire Congress and Senate! (Note: what the current news-for-sale media won’t publish is they also resigned at gunpoint.) Oh My Gosh! It seems everybody who is – was? – somebody wanted a Control-Alt-Delete change in guvva-mint, and Fictional Cafe is delighted to announce that PS Conway, our current Fearless Leader and ruling Poetry Writer in Residence, has, as of today, April Fool’s Day, been selected (note: removing the s is your prerogative)! Of course, Fictional Cafe Baristas were quickly appointed to all the significant positions of governmensch but now it looks like the whole nation is celebrating! In live interviews on the Washington Memorial…

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September 18, 2024

Radio . . . What? RadioGAGA!

Posted by Jack B. Rochester in Audio Arts, Featured Posts, Interviews, Member Writing & Art, Web Video, Writing

Philip Gabbard returns to Fictional Cafe with a new creative fiction project: a film treatment based upon a very popular song from the 1990s. Phil is a create-preneur of many talents and interests and we’re always interested in his work. He’s written creative nonfiction, THISday: Words for the Venerable and the Vulnerable, and Thrivation: The Everlasting Philosophy of Providence + Privilege. He penned (on his MacBook Pro) Every Saint, Every Sinner, a novel about his spiritual experiences. He produced and directed an extraordinary video based on the life and death of an archetypal Hispanic woman called La Llorona. Phil is beholden to Freddy Mercury and Queen for the inspiration to write about radio. More specifically, the rise and nowadays the fall of radio broadcasting. With the rise of television, its demise was probably inevitable. TV…

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