Embers & Ashes

White balance

10 min · 29 apr 2026
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Beschrijving

A routine drive across a snow-blind Minnesota turns into an existential nightmare when the horizon begins to vanish. For Mitch and Elias, the I-94 isn't just a highway anymore—it’s the edge of a world that is systematically erasing itself. What starts as a tense argument between two weary men ends at a desolate service station near Bemidji, where the laws of nature—and identity—simply cease to apply. In this haunting audio fiction, a cheap plastic "Mood Sasquatch" becomes the only barometer for a reality that no longer exists. As the silence of the North Woods seeps into the car, Mitch realizes that the snow isn't just falling; it’s reclaiming the ground, the signs, and the people. A chilling exploration of isolation, the end of the world, and the terrifying beauty of becoming nothing.

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White balance

A routine drive across a snow-blind Minnesota turns into an existential nightmare when the horizon begins to vanish. For Mitch and Elias, the I-94 isn't just a highway anymore—it’s the edge of a world that is systematically erasing itself. What starts as a tense argument between two weary men ends at a desolate service station near Bemidji, where the laws of nature—and identity—simply cease to apply. In this haunting audio fiction, a cheap plastic "Mood Sasquatch" becomes the only barometer for a reality that no longer exists. As the silence of the North Woods seeps into the car, Mitch realizes that the snow isn't just falling; it’s reclaiming the ground, the signs, and the people. A chilling exploration of isolation, the end of the world, and the terrifying beauty of becoming nothing.

29 apr 202610 min
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Three Sarahs

Sarah is nearly forty, eight months pregnant, and possesses a body carved in rock that defies sporting regulations. Under the artificial ochre of the competition tan, her silhouette is a biological anomaly that unsettles both the technical jury and her rivals. It is a final performance: a pyrrhic victory where muscle competes with gestation on a stage unequipped to judge exceptions. Behind the noise of the competition lies the asymmetry of a sacrifice shared only in name. While her partner envisions a family from the safety of one who hasn’t surrendered her own skeleton, Sarah carries the weight of a decision made by chance and the genetic trace of a slip-up. Three Sarahs linked by a single name and one question: whether this commitment is love or simply blind loyalty to the wrong fire.

11 mrt 202615 min