Untold Podcast

Miriam has been chosen to venture to another world to help a neighboring Amish community. But if she accepts the call, she will never see the love of her life again.

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They were careful to let a girl know what was coming. They knew how much they were asking.

Elder Laudenslager, one of five who governed the Millerite planetoid, had arrived at the Bontrager home, unexpected, on a Saturday evening, after the supper dishes were put away. His demeanor in the lamplight was solemn but not apologetic. Miriam sat silent throughout his talk. She could feel the eyes of her siblings and cousins upon her. They were guessing what Miriam had understood from the moment he had arrived: a great and terrible disaster was about to fall upon her.

“We have received communication from the Yoderites,” said the elder. Since the Yoderites were light-years away, this announcement was fraught. “They have need of an exchange. Four boys and one girl.”

Copilot Tersav Aut searches for a sector of space to peaceably settle.

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Auto-Log of Copilot Tersav Aut, Karnik Exploratory Age, Voyage Number 77:
 
Yet again, we struggle to repair our ship after engaging in a battle we did not ask for. In such situations, there's no win. Death abounds on each side.
 
Why can't our people find another sector of the cosmos to settle? Every cycle, we pray to live in peace so we might unravel the Mysteries of the Maker. When will we finally be able to follow our purpose? After over a thousand cycles, some are giving up.

As he searches for his mother, a young boy encounters one of the living islands.

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The ground shook with the voice of the Living Island. Tam stood riveted into place, his world narrowed into one terrifying vision.

"I am sorry, that was too loud, I will whisper," the Living Island breathed, its version of a whisper like a gale in an autumn forest. "I said: you lost your balloon."

Tam reached to his trike's handlebar, then stopped, as slow as the Island appeared to be, he could never outrun it. Tears ran down his face, "I didn't lose it, I let it go."

"You did?" The Island was close now, so immensely close.

"My mum...," Tam stammered, "My mum is lost. I came to find her, and I sent up the balloon. I thought she might see it."

A group of street animals traverse the dangers of Hanoi to find a place where they can be served.

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“I don’t care if you are bigger than me. These are my noodles.” Parker the chicken stood in protection over the spilled bowl someone had left behind in Hong Ba alley.

The cat – Casey – padded back and forth, bearing just the tips of her teeth. “Fine. Eat them. I’ll wait until you’re done… and then I’ll eat you.”
 
“You are a beast!”

The cat laughed, “Perhaps. But a beast with a delicious chicken and noodle breakfast.”

When the natural order breaks down, it is up to the intrepid crew of the Wolsey I to bring hope to their people.

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Amadeus' lean frame practically flew up the ladder to his control station on the SFC Wolsey MK.I. His crew, likewise, scurried to their places in excited anticipation. The weather had turned, and it was time to take the hope of their race out on its first active mission.

A service technician helped him strap into the harness, plunked a helmet on his head, and smacked it to seat it properly. "Good luck, sir," he saluted, "happy hunting."

Amadeus grimaced as the technician exited, and closed the hatch. He really wished they wouldn't use language like that; hunting, as if they were going out there with the purpose of killing. Oh, they might kill, it was a risk any operation of this sort ran, but if they could infiltrate and escape with the package, it would suit him just fine.

A classic poem by John Donne about distance and love and longing.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away,
   And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
   “The breath goes now," and some say, “No,"
 
So let us melt, and make no noise,
   No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
‘Twere profanation of our joys
   To tell the laity our love.

A dreamer speaks with the Cross upon which Jesus was crucified.

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Lo! I will tell of the best of dreams,
what I dreamed in the middle of the night,
after the speech-bearers were in bed.
It seemed to me that I saw a very wondrous tree
lifted into the air, enveloped by light,
the brightest of trees. That beacon was all
covered with gold. Gems stood
beautiful at the surface of the earth, there were five also
up on the central joint of the cross. All those fair through eternal decree gazed
[on] the angel of the Lord. [It] was certainly not a wicked person’s gallows there,
but holy spirits, men over the earth,
and all this famous creation gazed on him.
Wondrous was that tree of victory, and I stained with sins
wounded sorely with defects, I saw the tree of glory,
honoured with garments, shining joyously,
adorned with gold. Gems had
splendidly covered the Lord’s tree.
I was able, however, to perceive through the gold,
the ancient hostility of wretched ones, [that] it first began
to bleed on the right side.

After living in space all her life, a cat lands on a post-apocalyptic planet in search of her parents. After being subjected to the evil which exists on that world, she must decide how to proceed.

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There once was a cat. There once was a cat, in space. There once was a cat, in space, named Cat. Cat learned many things as she grew, but she never learned how she knew her name was Cat. She never knew her parents, she never knew anyone while she existed floating in space. Still, somehow, she knew she was named Cat. But how? That was the greatest question of her life, and she devoted her life to solving it.

The nefarious Doctor Diablo concocts a scheme to ruin humanity.

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Dr. Diablo was rare to be seen,
His ways underhanded, nefarious and mean.
He worked from the shadows, concocting his plans
And then would unleash them by shrewd slight of hand.

One day he concocted a marvelous scheme,
To unravel his victim’s good works and great deeds.
He at once got to work in his secret location,
And built a machine that emits odd vibrations.

A kindly, but absentminded king imperils his kingdom when he is deceived by the cruel Duke Ironside.

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There once was a king who was very kind but also very stupid.  His subjects all loved him and admired his kindness, but they sometimes wished he were a little smarter when it came to making important decisions that effected the kingdom.  Oftentimes the members of his court would laugh behind his back at his odd behavior.

One of his courtiers, Duke Ironside, was a shrewd man with a cruel sense of humor.  He decided he’d had enough of the king’s foolishness and set out to have some fun with him.