This anthology, assembled by H.E. Roulo and Brian Holtz, contains 16 short stories from some of the best Podiobooks.com authors. Some stories are strange, others are scary or humorous. Search through the mix of audio short stories to find something you like in Podioracket Presents- Visionaries. Subscribe off Podiobooks.com, iTunes, or use the player to listen right now!

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About the Authors

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The first story in the anthology, one of several prequel tales for J.C. Hutchins‘ thriller novel 7th Son: Descent, stars Kilroy2.0, a deranged Washington DC-based computer hacker. Incensed by recent federal scrutiny, Kilroy2.0 declares to his followers that today is a day of … ruination.

Listen to Brian Holtz’s award-winning, never before aired in audio, short story Jeremy’s Potential. This slipstream short story brings us Jeremy, who learns that his life is much bigger than he’d ever imagined. He finds himself spiraling from one reality to the next, searching for his daughter. To stop the nightmare he’ll need determination, quick reflexes and…a teddy bear. If you enjoy it, try one of Brian’s other Podiobooks.com novels.

Writer Patrick McLean won a “Best Fiction (Non-speculative)” Parsec Award  for this humorous piece, Death of a Dishwasher! Find more of Patrick’s work on Podiobooks.com, including How to Succeed in Evil.

Paul E. Cooley, the author of Tattoo, brings his horror short, Canvas, in which an artist discusses his philosophy of painting with a captive audience.

Seth Harwood’s thriller Junius, is the precursor to his novel Young Junius, which was just picked up for publication. Junius Ponds came up on tough streets outside Boston way back in the day. In the middle of drugs, gang violence, and the toughest set of tower-projects you ever knew, he seeks to avenge his brother. Learn more in the novel based on this short story, Young Junius.

In the sci-fi story Toynbee’s Gate, the first of the Jovian Gate Chronicles, Ron Vitale asks ‘What happens when humans cross paths with intelligent aliens that claim to be prophets from God?’ Get more sci-fi from Ron Vitale in The Jovian Gate Chronicles.

E.G. Talbot’s short story, “In the Details” is an irreverent and humorous look at how heaven isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  

More to come next week!

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