Television singing sensation Calvin Hubbard has been caught with his hand in cookie jar. An illicit affair with a contest judge costs him not only the competition crown, but his musical credibility as well. Fleeing the media fallout, Calvin exiles himself to the backwoods town of Harvey, Virginia. With a little solitude and a lot of cheap beer, he plans to write the next great rock and roll album and resurrect his career. But Calvin doesn't know that a man has just been buried alive in the w ...
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Some places are far darker than deep space. Places where the shadows smile. Where men go mad and lovers go missing. These stygian corners of existence are where reality is stretched thin and something hungry is waiting just outside the corner of your eye.Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and dare to visit one of these places.Crescent is dark science fiction at it's most visceral. Phil Rossi weaves a tale that is reminiscent of old school Stephen King but with a shiny, new set of trick ...
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Three thousand years after a chunk of iron the size of Khufu’s pyramid collides with Europa, Jupiter’s sixth moon, an asteroid borne of the collision crashes into Earth’s Arctic ice shelf carrying extraterrestrial microbial life. The first man to come into contact with the microbes hears voices—and then dies. After determining the meteorite originated from Europa, the Global Exploratory Corporation sends oceanographer and biologist, Kathy Connelly, and her crew to the moon aboard the Surveyo ...
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Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies … This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero. Facing an enemy armed with the Golden Aleph -- a mystical device that allows its wielder to see holographically into every point in time and space, Ptolemy must use every trick of his Oxford-educated mind and circus-trained body to succeed. But how do you f ...
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Epilogue. Octavio Veerspike has an audience on Isla Saqqara with the Crimson Man and at last makes a choice that will define him until the end of his days ...
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Chapter Eleven: John Horn and the Turtle. Not all Elites are bad: enter John Horn, American patriot, billionairre and recent defector from the Commission. Ptolemy and Ashley are told of the Golden Aleph -- and given some help getting to Isla Saqqara ...
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Chapter Ten: Diner of Death. A massive quake his Nassau at night ... just as the Wu sons show up. Ptolemy and Ashley are chased across the island, while Commission operatives are strangely able to quickly locate the duo at will ... but nothing is as strange as the re-appearance of Cat-Eye and what he has in store for them ...…
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Chapter Nine: Fighting Back. Ashley Veerspike describes how she eventually twisted the tables back around on the Commission -- and the price she paid.
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Chapter Eight: Black Butterfly. Over dinner, Ashley Veerspike tells her tale to Armand Ptolemy of 'growing up Veerspike'. Being a young Elite may sound great on the surface, but in truth it's a dark world of mind control, alternate personalities, and terrible trauma ...
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Chapter Seven: Wu and Veerspike When Armand Ptolemy returns to the hotel with the location of Isla Saqqara, he reveals to Ashley Veerspike that his jaunt over to Wu's compound with Cat-Eye may not have been at all what it seemed at the time ... and that Ashley herself had more to do with it that she thinks!…
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Chapter Six: Wu and Cat-Eye. Armand Ptolemy and Ashley Veerspike arrive in Nassau, where the game of games is afoot. The Elite are already assasinating one another, jockeying for position. Ptolemy needs to wring the location of Isla Saqqara out of one of them ... but which one and how?
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Chapter 5: Glyph. Nestled in an apartment in Santa Monica sits Glyph, a Commission-trained (and rejected) synaesthete with a remarkable abilty to meld with the Internet via psychic ability. What she sees and hears via cameras and microphones tells a tale all by itself ...
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Chapter Four: Pindoh. International banker Octavio Veerspike and Mr. Fum know who Ptolemy really is, and he is invited to play the occult card game of Pindoh with some up-and-comers on the world stage. But the stakes are far higher than the pot of money on the table ...
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Chapter 3: Candlelighters. In Cairo, Egypt, Ptolemy infiltrates the secret Candlelight Group conference. Here, Presidents and world leaders were vetted by the captains of industry. And here Ptolemy meets Octavio Veerspike and his stunning daughter, Ashley Veerspike. Of course, Veerspike's manservant Mr. Fum is extra-vigilant here amidst the pyramid…
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Chapter Two: "Expect Us" Ptolemy travels to upstate New York to meet with Lucy Bloom, an eightysomething computer whiz living on a farm. Through her, he learns that an Aleph was used on him in the Library, and that the Commission is planning something sinister in the near future ...
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Chapter One: The Geomancer.When Armand Ptolemy is called to investigate strange tremors plaguing an old branch of the New York public library, he finds himself enmeshed in a series of events that began back in 1912 ...
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The crew retreats while something monsterous presses the attack in this final episode of BENEATH!
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Peterson and Choi duke it out while those beneath flee towards the surface.
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The crew beneath the surface encounters an intelligence.
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Connelly, Willard and Robert are confronted by something new. Peterson fights his condition.
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Choi is subdued and captured, but mounts an escape. Connelly, Robert and Willard are pursued deeper into the cave system.
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Willard, Robert and Connelly descend into a cave system beneath the ocean and find they're unwelcome.
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Choi confronts Peterson. Willard fights to rescue Connelly and Robert, before their time runs out.
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Peterson heads to the surface. Robert and Connelly encounter something huge, and hungry, in the Europian ocean. Choi is attacked.
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Robert and Connelly discover something amazing in the Europoan ocean. Choi learns that there is more to the surface of Europa than they realized. Peterson loses control of himself.
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Robert and Connelly descend through the ice and into the Europian ocean.The true effects of Peterson's poisoning begin to emerge.
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Peterson experiments with a specimen with disastrous results.
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While Connelly, Willard and Robert use TES to melt through the frozen surface of Europa, Choi and Peterson collect samples, which are then brought back to the ship.
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After learning about their new spacesuits, Connelly's Thermal Exploratory System (TES) is launched to the surface of Europa. The crew follows and makes an amazing discovery.
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The crew arrives in orbit around Europa and aregreeted by a freakish phenomenon. They take some time to explore the ship.
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The crew is tested, taught and trained for themission before beginning the long trip to Europa.
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Connelly, Peterson, Willard and Robert arrive atthe Global Exploration Corporation headquarters, meet the rest of the crew,Choi and Harris, and are tasked with their new mission: the search for life onEuropa.
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Astrogeologist, Michael Peterson makes ahorrific discovery in the Arctic. A yearlater, Kathy Connelly and her crew are called away from their research in Antarctica.
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Did I really meet you in an ice cream parlor. I was just trying to get out of the heat. Somehow found myself in the woods, with you naked and vulnerable at my feet.
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Harvey day is here. Dress warm--it's going to be chilly out tonight.
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Meeks has a rough wake up. Kate goes for a walk and Megan tries to help an overwhelmed Calvin worry about one less thing.
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By now, you know the night time is coming for you. And by now, you know it’s got teeth, too.
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Don’t turn out the lights please and keep the windows shut. Keep out the dream thieves; am I asking too much?
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Once in a river, nightmare of the week. The trip to hell is when you start to sink.
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Deputy Currie arrives at JPs to secure the scene and take statements. Calvin and Megan go for a jog.
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Run Little Girl, Run
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Calvin kills a little time and catches some needed inspiration. JP's is the place to be for a good time.
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Kate has an moment of introspection only to be interrupted by an unexpected guest. Meet Terrence "Tee" Mattes, King of James Monroe High School. It's a perfect night for a fire.
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An investigation is set up at the Morrison residence. Meeks blows off some steam.
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Beth is having a hard time sleeping. Deputy Frank Meeks goes looking for Ray Morrison.
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Beth is having a hard time sleeping. Tim Fellows is caffeinated and ready to do business. Calvin decides to go for a stroll in search of inspiration
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Meet Kate Bowman.
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Meet Calvin Hubbard, ex-popular singing competition contestation fleeing scandal.
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Welcome to Harvey. Long time friends Aaron Roberts and Ray Morrison share a few beers at Harvey, VA's favorite watering hole.
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One year later...or thereabouts.
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-In this episode: The End. Thanks to *everybody* who provided love, support, and feedback all the way. Crescent happened because of you.
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-In this episode: Come inside. The party is almost over.
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-In this episode: A little change is good. Gerald takes a moment to celebrate being alive. Crescent's latest guest arrives.
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-In this episode: The author thanks his listeners and the Podiobooks staff and reflects on the journey with just three chapters to go.
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