The Summer Tree, Ayta's Prologue

The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

Season 1: The Summer Tree Episode 1: Prologue, “The Two Aytas”

On Ayta’s seventh birthday, there came a knock on the door, and her namesake stood before her. Gran Ayta. Once a thing of myth, descended from legends. Now she seemed just a stooped old woman, but appearances can be deceiving.

Ayta’s lonely childhood was soon transformed by Gran’s fantastic stories of flight from one world to the next. From distant Siberia to the Second World of Alterran, from there to the very Land of the Dead she had come, or so she claimed. And she had returned with secrets taken from that underworld, to teach her granddaughter.

Ayta would need to come to terms with the legacy she had inherited, bearing these myths in a world which has no need for what it sees as childish things. A childish world that she knew was soon to end...

Behind-the-scenes "deep dive" recording during the 2021 Kickstarter. (Video)

Tales From When I Had A Face, Audio Edition Credits

“Tales From When I Had A Face” was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson.

Each episode is accompanied by an immersive soundtrack produced by James Curcio, featuring collaborating artists David Bessell, Jenn E, and P. Emerson Williams.

This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.

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A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.

Many Cycles begin in a world much like our own, with characters who know little of the world beyond their waking lives. Gradually, the crack opens between the mundane and the fantastic, the wondrous and the horrific, the past and the future.

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Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?