An experiment in short story writing. Award nominated speculative fiction writer and award winning podcaster, P J Ballantine and invited guest chefs will offer a saucy menu to listeners from the erotica a la carte kitchen.
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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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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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Archives 14: The Precarious Child (Pip Ballantine)
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The street urchins that will one day be called the Ministry Seven, have a task from Agent Harrison Thorne. It seems simple enough, however their leader Miss Verity Fitzroy discovers that a surprise from her past is tangled up with this mysterious man which leads to a very precarious situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…
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Archives 13: From Paris, with Regret (Starla Huchton)
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On assignment in the City of Light, Ministry agents Eliza D. Braun and Harrison Thorne chase down a murderer condemning descendants of a royal bloodline to a horrific death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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Archives 12: Darkest before the Darkwater (Tee Morris)
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A group of survivors from the airship GUY FAWKES find themselves washed ashore on an uncharted island. In their search for survival, they uncover one mystery after another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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Archives 11: The Shadows of Calcutta (Phil Rossi)
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Agent Robert Smith, on return from a mission in Nepal, is diverted to India where he is charged to find a missing agent. Alex Tanner had been investigating a series of thefts and murders holding the Ministry’s attention, and now it falls on Agent Smith to find his missing comrade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 10: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part Two (Jack Mangan)
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We rejoin our epic tale across the America’s as Agent Bruce Campbell remains on the trail of Usher assassin, Mikael Scharnusser, who has fellow Ministry agent Brandon Hill captive. With a narrow window of time granted by the enigmatic agent of the States’ OSM agency, Bruce must rescue Agent Hill from this madman’s locomotive lair… Learn more about …
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Archives 09: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part One (Jack Mangan)
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This epic tale opens in 1849 when a poet is murdered in the streets of Baltimore. The man behind the seemingly random murder manages to elude the law until — in 1889 — Agents Bruce Campbell and Brandon Hill track him down. The assassin, Mikael Scharnusser, gives the slip to the agents on revealing his “talent” and the madman’s intentions to bring d…
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Archives 08: Hanuman's Gift - Part Two (Helen E.H. Madden)
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After hearing Agent Harrison Thorne’s impossible tale of cursed monkeys and undead womenWhitby must file away the physical evidence. However it just may be that Hanuman’s Gift was not totally left behind in India, and the Archives are not as boring and safe as he believes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 07: Hanuman's Gift - Part One (Helen E.H. Madden)
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Deep in the Archives, Augustus Whitby toils through his duties in the Archives, dreaming up romantic stories far more plausible than the supposed “investigations” of the field agents. A story from Agent Harrison Thorne and an unassuming artifact from his recent case, however, proves much to Whitby’s chagrin that there are some truths that are far s…
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Archives 06: A Ruby in Rain (Grant Stone)
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From the farthest edge of the Empire, New Zealand agents Lachlan King and Barry Ferguson are called to interview a recent arrival to Auckland’s prisons. An infamous gambler, according to the constable’s account, has turned himself into their custody, not for the safety of society but for his own. The Ministry steps in to uncover a man’s story of im…
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Agent Brandon Hill is on assignment in South America, enjoying the local culture and women, when a mystery that could lead to El Dorado falls into his lap. Before the intrepid agent knows it, he is the jungle uncovering a plot but the devilish Illuminati. He will need all his monkey knife fighting skills to survive this one. Learn more about your a…
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Archives 04: The Sun Never Sets (Val Griswold-Ford)
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Agent Isaac Martin receives a note, imploring him to investigate the nearly completed clock tower at the Palace at Westminster. He and his partner, Agent Andrew Kensington, start looking into the construction and uncover unanswered questions concerning this new landmark’s creators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 03: The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas (Nathan Lowell)
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Agent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals, and despair, he is not comforted by the company of a rough and ready sort named Morrison. Soon Durham begins to suspect he may never return home—and to top it all o…
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Archives 02: Dust on the Davenport (O.M. Grey)
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Agent Simon R. Boswell, still considered the green agent of the Ministry, takes on his own a supposed haunting in Islington. Hauntings tend to be nothing too serious for agents specializing in the unexplained; but for Simon, this case supplies surprises of all kinds, around every corner… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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Archives 01: The Evil that Befell Samson (Pip Ballantine)
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It is revealed just how Miss Braun ended up being exiled from her native country, New Zealand, and working for the Ministry in its London Offices. It’s a tale of nefarious doings, stalwart ladies, and the sound of clockwork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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Under the temple of the earth god, a vampire is chained and used for blood rituals. Yet eventually even the most careful human makes a mistake, and that’s all she needs.
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Dreams of Steam and Sparks by P J Ballantine
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Past and future collide in a inventors laboratory. Steam and sparks ensue.
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Little Mysteries by Justin Macumber
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A woman returns to her high school and finds a sweet mystery waiting for her
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In an alternative America a superhero has a lesson in control.
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Buried Alive in the Blues by J Daniel Sawyer
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Irene needs the blues. She needs to forget. Even as the world falls apart around her what she finds in the speakeasy that night changes everything.
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Olivia’s life of gentile middle-class existence is challenged by a face from her past. Steamy goodness ensues.
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A ninja infiltrates an underground facility and the chef returns to a familiar dish.
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You’ve double booked yourself several times over, and your professor has just handed you an assignment you only have a few days to finish. What do you do? Sacrifice some fun, or perhaps mix up a potion?
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A Fey all alone in the 1980s on Christmas Day gets an unexpected present.
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A bored prince goes seeking entertainment, and finds far more than he expected. First night turns into a nightmare.
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An orbiting space station in the middle of a civil war. A woman races to save her own life and meets the unexpected. Welcome to Kubali Station…
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A librarian in occupied France has more than just nazis to deal with, but also the restless, demanding ghosts of the past.
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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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