We’ve spent a few episodes talking about vampire society and the how and why of the reality show they’ve decided to launch (this season is sequential with connected episodes so you’re going to want to check out 1-3 of Season 3 before you dive i

The Rules for 2020 Vampires

Jul 31st, 2020 1h 6m

We went into this episode with the idea of making the rules for our Vamps. What tropes do we want and what do we skip? We did some of that, but also expanded on the back story and did some more world building. Matt got us hung up on farming hum

Can Vampires Farm People

Jul 23rd, 2020 1h 4m

Last week we felt like we were shot out of a cannon with this new subject matter: What if vampires are real and they take advantage of Covid and our cavalier American attitude to come out of hiding and announce that they are among us and that t

Covid Vampires

Jul 16th, 2020 1h 22m

We are so terribly sorry that it has been so long since we put some new material up. We just decided that Season 2 was a short one and got sidelined by the old Pandemic, and that we are going to start our new normal with Season 3 now. The promp

The Bee King

Apr 4th, 2020 49m 30s

OK. We got a little obsessed with The Tiger King and we accidentally wrote some future historic fiction about what Joe Exotic’s life might be like after he gets out of jail. It all started with The Writer’s Toolbox supplying 3 prompts: “A Beek

The Keyhole

Mar 25th, 2020 59m 30s

Today we spend a few minutes talking about quarantine life and our fun times with the all new Coronavirus, then launch into another big old session of world building, led by Rory’s Story Cubes. We sort of ignored the rules a little bit, but it

Brain Squalls S2 E7 - Somnus

Mar 17th, 2020 1h 7m

Ever in search of a new prompt, today we cracked open Weird Words - A Lovecraftian Lexicon and chose a page to get us started. The only word on that page to work with was Ivory Gate. It’s the gate through which false dreams come to men from th

Somnus - The Company that Manages Your Dreams

Mar 17th, 2020 1h 7m

Mantle

Mar 10th, 2020 56m 29s

Alex Josey has an accident at a French ski lodge resulting in a fall to his death...or so we think. When he lands, 200 feet below, he slides into a deep, deep crack in the Earth where he is "healed" by the inhabitants down below. This episode i

It Takes a Village wsg Victor Cypert

Feb 8th, 2020

Today we connected with Victor Cypert, one of EV’s cohorts from her Seton Hill University days, to craft a tale that spans centuries about a girl who would be sacrificed to a cult but for her mother’s protection and education. The ritual she w

Sophie Told Me

Feb 2nd, 2020 57m 48s

Today we used a game to get our creativity going and it worked out great! We used the Pitchstorm Creature Feature Edition to get started on this episode, and came up with a really creepy, horrifying tale of triplets who became twins and how l

The 3G Corporation

Jan 24th, 2020 1h 5m

EV Knight is a fabulous author and podcast co-host (and Matt writes all the episode descriptions :D ) but she’s not terribly confident going into an episode that she knows will be a Science Fiction story. As a matter of fact, she’s so unconfide

The Last Rehearsal wsg Gwendolyn Kiste

Jan 15th, 2020 36m 10s

We had a slew of tech issues trying to record this episode and ended up with a lesser quality audio on our end than usual. Gwendolyn Sounds great! We are coming through a laptop mic rather than our studio mics - but the content is great, so we

Toys for Tots wsg Dr Mike Arnzen

Jan 9th, 2020 51m 16s

We kick off season 2 with an exploration into the absurd. Our guest, multi Bram Stoker Award Winner, professor of Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University, and Mentor to our co-host, EV Knight, Dr Mike Arnzen leads the way with a promp

Xmas Special Season Finale

Nov 30th, 2019 56m 19s

For the final episode of our first season we demonstrate our telepathic powers while we tell the story of a Firefighter, a Flirt, and a young man who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. We set out to write a spooky Christmas ghost st

Attacker Midnight

Nov 20th, 2019 1h 8m

Finally! We are back at prompts and is it fun! Matt decided to use the Wu-Tang name generator to inspire this story and it did not disappoint. EV and Matt switch roles for a while so she can be overconfident and he can be dubious. In the end we

Attacker Midnight - The Thanksgiving Special

Nov 20th, 2019 1h 8m

S1 E18 Long Explore Finale

Nov 13th, 2019 38m 35s

Levi’s adventure in the woods comes to an end in this short episode. We discuss his reunion with his family, the arcs of all the major characters, and how well we stuck to our original concepts and ideas. This was a really fun project for both

Long Explore Finale: This Project Needs a Title

Nov 13th, 2019 38m 35s

A Long Explore Part 6 - The Brawl

Nov 6th, 2019 59m 55s

We are almost to the exciting conclusion of Levi’s journey through the woods with all his new animal pals. Wilson named him and wants to keep him. Colonel Norris seems to know everything, but maybe he doesn’t. Leesh comes to a very startling co

Brain Squalls S1 E16 - A Long Explore Part 5

Oct 29th, 2019 1h 4m

Levi’s journey continues this week, as tensions mount between Lenny and the rest of the woodland creatures. Lenny hatches a scheme to get himself the Alpha spot in his pack and Wilson lets him know that Levi will not be a part of any of that -

Levi Gets a New Nickname

Oct 29th, 2019 1h 4m

A Long Explore Part 4

Oct 22nd, 2019 1h

This is the 4th installment of our full screenplay writing project. We introduce some new characters in the last couple episodes and start talking about who we would love to have as voice actors for the cast when this definitely gets picked up

A Long Explore Part 3

Oct 15th, 2019 1h 1m

As we continue Levi's journey through the woods with his new friends, he gets to try finding his family with the turtles, the squirrels and chipmunks, and Craig, the sneaky raccoon who seems to always be up to no good. We get a little more insi

A Long Explore Part 2

Sep 24th, 2019 1h 4m

This week we continue on Levi and his family’s adventure into the woods, and all of the woodland characters he meets. There’s Wilson the bear, Colonel Norris the Porcupine, Sharon and Karen the White Tail Deer…and so many more! The story really