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Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Vern Hume
309 episodes
1 week ago
Makeshift Stories is a sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for anyone who craves the thrill of the unknown and unexpected. Once a month, buckle up for an epic journey through possible futures, space, alternate realities, and beyond. Are you ready to explore uncharted territories and discover the unimaginable? Tune in and let your imagination soar!
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Makeshift Stories is a sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for anyone who craves the thrill of the unknown and unexpected. Once a month, buckle up for an epic journey through possible futures, space, alternate realities, and beyond. Are you ready to explore uncharted territories and discover the unimaginable? Tune in and let your imagination soar!
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Episodes (20/309)
Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Personal Detritus
Liam, a laid-off tech worker turned scavenger, lives a double life—by day, a conscripted worker in a waste recycling plant; by night, Rupert Hudson, a venture capitalist, mingling with the elite using forged credit cards. When he retrieves a careless billionaire’s trash and uses it to access vast wealth, mysterious messages follow him around. Too late, Liam realizes he has been scamming money from a notorious cyber-criminal and is forced to run for his life.
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3 weeks ago
35 minutes 50 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Scissors Paper Rock App Computer
At 75, Kaber Grewal should be retired in the sun, not taking gigs to pay for his hip replacement. Hired by a mysterious client to analyze communications, he uncovers signs of cognitive decline in Praeses, the AGI running the government. He is paid well for his time but warned to forget what he found. However, Kaber has trouble taking the money and walking away. When accidents start happening, he suspects his client is behind them. But after all the evidence of Praeses’s problem is destroyed, he must make a decision-walk away or expose the truth before it’s too late, before the consequences become irreversible.
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1 month ago
30 minutes 31 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
A New Star in Aries
Professor Hollis Cooper, an underground scientist, must pass a daily test to prove her belief in the official facts. But she comes under investigation when she accidentally slips up in a lecture. Official interest in her couldn’t come at a worse time, as Hollis and a colleague, using banned equipment from a previous age, discover an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Hollis and her colleague must try to evade discovery long enough to determine where the asteroid will hit and find a way to warn humanity.
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2 months ago
29 minutes 39 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Floor Forty-two
During a routine license audit at a vertical farm, Carmen, a demoted field agent, discovers that the farmhands, including a man named Salvador, are genetically modified and memory-altered slaves. Carmen risks her job and her life to expose the illegal operation. In an unexpected twist, when events turn against her, help comes from a surprising source.
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3 months ago
32 minutes 57 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
The Forever Worm
After a long shift ice mining in Saturn’s rings, Pascoe heads for a drink and the company of fresh faces at the Methane Bar on Titan. When he arrives, the bar is deserted except for Allgera, a recluse, who is, after years of silence, ready to share her alluring secret—immortality. As Pascoe is drawn into her strange, ageless world, he must decide: is eternal life worth the price it extracts?
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4 months ago
22 minutes 20 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Reality Adjustment (Part 2)
Nickie and her cousin Noah stumble upon a mystery as they plan an adjustment for the Primate Council; someone appears to be following them. The mysterious person turns out to be a childhood friend who reveals their roles as adjusters, make them targets of the Council. In a desperate attempt to escape and preserve their existence, all three set out to cross the border before they are erased.
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4 months ago
26 minutes 21 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Reality Adjustment (Part 1)
Nickie Holmes is the best Adjuster in the business, erasing anomalies to align the physical world with the Primate Council’s official digital record. After a Forget injection wipes her memory of the last job, she takes on a new assignment with her cousin Noah, targeting a house, a store, and a car. As the duo navigates the eerie familiarity of their hometown, cracks begin to form in the certainty of Nickie’s work—and the reality she’s sworn to uphold.
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5 months ago
20 minutes 43 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Return of the Sovereign
After a century on Mars, crypto-trillionaire Devon Smit decides to return to Earth. He wants to be a god among the human masses, which he and his fellow elite left behind, to escape society's downfall and impending environmental collapse. His obsession with gaining godlike status blinds him to the warnings of a fellow trillionaire and subtle signs that his potential subjects are interested in something other than revering him.

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5 months ago
27 minutes 52 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
An Alien Mind
When Dr. Veda Singh arrives at a mining camp to fix the mysterious loss of communications with an AI studying a 12,000-year-old Aspen colony, malfunctioning automated mining machinery and unexplained network activity initially point to a sinister third party. However, working with Nolan Myers, a software engineer hired by the mine to investigate the automation failures, they discover they are up against an unexpected adversary-one of nature’s oldest guardians.
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6 months ago
27 minutes 49 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Escape Across the 60th
Dr. Tremblay, a geneticist, is fleeing after attempting to distribute his Alzheimer's cure against his employer's wishes. To escape the private security company pursuing him, he navigates a dangerous river to seek asylum north of the 60th parallel in the Arctic Alliance. An old robotic dog unexpectedly aids him, rescuing him from drowning. When Tremblay faces capture, the dog saves him again before vanishing into the forest.
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6 months ago
33 minutes 55 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Manufactured Memory
Ivan Petrenko has spent his entire life chasing one goal: proving his family’s abduction by extraterrestrials during a 1960 camping trip. When he is contacted by Marie, the daughter of a former researcher involved in the Cold War's top-secret MK Ultra project, he agrees to a meeting. However, Marie reveals a dark truth that upends Ivan’s long-held beliefs. He and his family were not the victims of alien abduction but something even more sinister.
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7 months ago
29 minutes 32 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Aurora’s Self-serve Medical Shop
Aurora Kumar struggles to make ends meet, running her family's self-serve medical shop in a down-and-out neighbourhood. She must rent private medical suites to premium clients to balance her family's history of charity with the survival of her business. Aurora becomes suspicious of one of those clients, Mr. Gagnon, who repeatedly visits for private surgeries. Her curiosity leads to an ominous discovery: Gagnon has modified his brain, removing all fear and anxiety, resulting in a psychopathic personality.
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7 months ago
27 minutes 24 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Robin Hood Mode (Part 2)
When Noah, Wil, and the woman who hired Noah attempt to track down the mysterious mastermind behind high-stakes money transfers, they find themselves up against a software agent called Little John. After escaping a trap, the program set for them, Wil devises a plan to figure out who or what is behind Little John. The trail leads them to an unexpected place, a school computer lab and a young student who just wanted help with her assignment. Will rushes to shut down the AI the girl created to suggest ways to redistribute the world’s wealth, but the program manages to bypass its creator’s limits.
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8 months ago
23 minutes 45 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Robin Hood Mode
Noah, an elderly gig worker, takes on a lucrative job from a wealthy woman claiming to be giving away her fortune against her family's wishes. After a successful first job, things look up for Noah, and then a private investigator shows up at his apartment and asks questions. As the truth about his benefactor emerges, Noah discovers he has been thrust into a conspiracy involving high-stakes money transfers masterminded by a mysterious shadowy figure.
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8 months ago
24 minutes 23 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Elixir of Youth
Dakari, an 11-year-old boy, exchanges his blood with an aging billionaire to extend the older man's life. Promised a better future for his family, Dakari feels a deep sense of betrayal as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the grim reality of his sacrifice. When he uncovers the treatments will dramatically shorten his life, he faces the difficult choice between fleeing and staying to support his family. Dakari's struggle for survival reveals the dark side of immortality and the harsh cost of human exploitation.
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9 months ago
24 minutes 3 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Lagrange Point 4
An astrophysicist is blackmailed into joining billionaire space entrepreneur Dev Chada on a mission to investigate a mysterious anomaly at Lagrange Point 4. As their spaceship, the Mangala, ventures further from Earth, tensions rise when sabotage threatens their journey. This reveals deep-rooted fears about alien contact, sending the crew on a collision course with each other and the mysterious object.
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9 months ago
30 minutes 6 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Leopold’s Fix All
Leopold clings to the remnants of a bygone era where things could be fixed. His latest find, an old slide projector, holds more than nostalgic value—it harbors a dark secret. As Leopold restores the vintage device, he unknowingly unleashes a trapped soul from the past, bound by a sinister deal. Caught between the realms of the living and the trapped, Leopold begins to realize some things should never be repaired.
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10 months ago
15 minutes 49 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
The Wind Rustlers
Beau, a drifter and private investigator, finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. To make enough money to leave, he must solve a mysterious series of power thefts at a struggling wind farm. As he delves into the heart of Wind Ridge Ranch, he unearths a truth the owner does not want to face; however, revealing it might prove more of a threat to the wind farm’s survival than the thefts.
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10 months ago
26 minutes 47 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
The Genetic Forest
While searching for her missing dog bot, Loki, Mary discovers fugitive geneticist Ethan camping in a restricted toxic reclamation area. After admitting to disabling Loki, he reveals he has a cure for Alzheimer's and is fleeing a corporation determined to prevent him from giving it away for free. Mary, the lone custodian of the reclamation site for 30 years, faces a choice: hand Ethan over for a reward or help him escape.
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11 months ago
29 minutes 49 seconds

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Obsession’s Algorithm
After discovering his tenant unconscious and his rental unit in disarray, Ralph starts piecing together an unbelievable story. While recovering in the hospital, his tenant Harper—a programmer and entrepreneur—reveals her obsession with Ada Lovelace and a surprising connection to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Harper has uncovered a set of previously unknown notes by Lovelace, detailing the mathematical modeling of human emotions. Determined to finish Ada’s work, Harper inadvertently creates something that shouldn’t exist, unleashing it onto the web.
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11 months ago

Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Makeshift Stories is a sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for anyone who craves the thrill of the unknown and unexpected. Once a month, buckle up for an epic journey through possible futures, space, alternate realities, and beyond. Are you ready to explore uncharted territories and discover the unimaginable? Tune in and let your imagination soar!