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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Tee Morris returns to the world's first podiobook, restoring lost scenes, adding in more production elements, and featuring guest voices from favorite podcasts. Set sail with Rafe and Askana again...for the first time.Morevi, a landlocked kingdom shrouded by jungles and mystery, falls under the rule of Askana Moldarin. In the dawn of this New Age, hidden traitors in her own regime threaten to destroy everything. The First Queen, independent of council, seeks help to reveal the conspiracy aga ...
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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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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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34:37The 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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44:12On 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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45:50A 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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52:52Agent 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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35:33We 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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37:28This 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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37:11After 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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38:05Deep 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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35:36From 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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38:47Agent 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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46:57Agent 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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28:40Agent 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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34:37It 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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36:03Past and future collide in a inventors laboratory. Steam and sparks ensue.
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Little Mysteries by Justin Macumber
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1:00:54A 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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43:05Irene 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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After six years of giving everything to Morevi, Askana Moldarin decides to ask for something in return…
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35 — Chapter Twenty: Answers of the Higher Power
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49:34Following the Eyriener Siege on Morevi and the conspiracy against the throne brought to light, consequences unfold…
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34 — Chapter Nineteen: Question of Honour
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50:54Askana Moldarin faces Rafe Rafton, the decree of High Lady Dirare and High Council fresh in her mind. The privateer must be dismissed from the eyes of the First Queen and Court...
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33 — Chapter Eighteen: The Cost of a Crown
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1:40:00During the victory celebrations, Askana and Rafe follow their hearts and set a dangerous intrigue into motion...
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32 — Chapter Seventeen: The Spell of Souls
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1:13:14Coumiran holds the Palace of a Thousand Suns. Emerging from the Crypts of Morevi, he now possesses one of the Ancient Texts that will return his beloved Maeve back to the corporeal world.
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31 — Chapter Sixteen: Siege on Songkusai
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1:38:58High Lord Coumiran, with Askana Moldarin as her prisoner, leads the Eyriener forces in an attack on the capital city of Morevi.
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30 — Chapter Fifteen: Nightmares and Negotiations
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58:32Allies arrive in secret to Songkusai at the same time reality arrives to His Majesty King Jermal. It is the High Lady Dirare that reminds the Consort-King where power in Morevi resides. Meanwhile, Askana — prisoner of Coumiran's Eyriener Forces — draws closer to Morevi. The closer she comes to home, the more she is plagued by bizarre dreams...…
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As the Eyriener forces continue to Arathelle, the Morevian-English allies continue their journey back to Songkusai.
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28 — Chapter Thirteen: In the Company of Elves
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55:35The English Allies follow the coordinates provided by Askana Moldarin, and find themselves strangers in a very strange land.
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27 — Chapter Twelve: Call of the Cannon (Part Three of Three)
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33:17Askana discovers the identity of the mysterious Dark Merchant.
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26 — Chapter Twelve: Call of the Cannon (Part Two of Three)
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34:11Without reinforcements from King Henry VIII, the Defiant takes on the flagship of the Eyriener Navy.
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25 — Call of the Cannon (Part One of Three)
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39:06Rafe and Askana return to Morevi, and find themselves face-to-face with an Eyriener invasion fleet.
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One year later...or thereabouts.
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24 — Chapter Eleven: The Voices of Nadinath
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30:32In Morevi, players in The Great Game continue to move. To Kalea and Min-Lu, the Temple speaks...
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23 — Chapter Ten: Tudor by Torchlight (Part Four of Four)
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26:50Rafe's condition is deteriorating, and Askana now tends to the privateer as they sail for Morevi. That night, the First Queen discovers just how far the Caillech's spell reaches.
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22 — Chapter Ten: Tudor by Torchlight (Part Three of Four)
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29:59With an oath given and allies promised, Askana and Rafe must escape England before Lord Norfolk can make his counter-move.
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21 — Chapter Ten: Tudor by Torchlight (Part Two of Four)
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23:03Assassins close in on King Henry, but sadly they underestimate their primary target...
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20 — Chapter Ten: Tudor by Torchlight (Part One of Four)
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32:19Now prisoners of Lord Norfolk, Askana must acquiesce to King Henry's affections in exchange for allies.
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19 — Chapter Nine: The Consort Who Would Be King
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48:34Kalea and Kubi-Sogi prepare the military for Askana's return while Lady Dirare advances one step closer to the throne.
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18 — Chapter Eight: Homecoming (Part Two of Two)
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55:18Rafe and Askana tour London while waiting on the word of King Henry VIII concerning the alliance between Morevi and England.
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17 — Chapter Eight: Homecoming (Part One of Two)
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52:50Rafe introduces Askana Moldarin to the court of King Henry VIII, but not everyone in attendance is particularly pleased with the privateer's return to London...
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16 — Chapter Seven: Merely the Beginning (Part Two of Two)
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27:56Min-Lu continues to plot against her one-time mentor, Askana Moldarin, remaining blissfully unaware of how her Eyriener connection is manipulating the conspiracy to meet his own needs. Deep in the Southern Wood, Kubi-Sogi arrives at the door of Grainne, in search of answers from a mad woman's ranting...…
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15 — Chapter Seven: Merely the Beginning (Part One of Two)
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48:44Rafe and Askana have crossed The Rift and are now in the waters claimed by King Henry VIII. They also discover a stowaway in their midst. Meanwhile, back in Morevi, Kubi-Sogi continues to try and find out more about the queen's escape, taking his queries to the Dowager Queen, an old woman lost in madness...…
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14 — Chapter Six: Second Chance (Part Two of Two)
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28:23Slipping away from the Defiant, Askana turns to the Caillech of the Tangled Southern Wood for a cure to the Kir'Shia poison.
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