Interview with The Gossip Queens

Seven-year-old Tommy Davis loves to play in the back yard with his dog. One day, Tommy is drawn into the woods by a strange light and he vanishes. As the boy's disappearance is being investigated, strange events unfold in the sleepy community. Narrated by Bob Heubel. Full credits available at coffeecontrails.com.

It was early March, and Zack Kaudjak was crossing the open snow-laced fields of the Yukon River with his twelve-dog Iditarod sled team. The race is a great distance to travel for a lone teenager, and an emotional one that reconnects Zack with his passed on loved ones. He is challenged with life lessons of scratching the race but emerges as a wise leader, to try again with less risk to his team. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Wonderful meeting with writer George Frost and recording with him his short-story Souls of the Sky. In this interview, he shares his Alaskan adventures, love of history which he weaves into his stories, and his use of the writing technique called meta-fiction.

The Coffee Bar, a moody futuristic vignette written by Meera Collier, is an experimental dissonance. Full of dark corners, its denizens sip on highly fortified caffeine drinks, that are sometimes infused with with other drugs and powders to give those imbibing a high like cocaine. The bar is a hum of lowered voices. In search of Jack Nobody, the Detective (Aaron Umetani) questions the sweating bartender (Gino Danna), a caffeine fiend nervously waiting for his next hit. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Released in 1983 for the 25th-anniversary celebration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA presented The Space Story, featuring James Beggs, NASA's 6th administrator. This is an excerpt from an extremely hissy, public domain, cassette recording, which demands extreme willpower to listen, especially the entire recording, but I hope that you do. For me, it is a special reminder that we've done so many wonderous things to explore and understand the place in which we live and that ahead with its challenges, there are more amazing adventures to be had if we have the willingness to seek them out and with joy. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Brains in Love is a comedic short story by playwright and novelist Joel Fishbane. From the eighty-three moons of Saturn to the emperors of Japan, these fierce trivia competitors, Richard and Lizzie Schiffman, always bring their A game to quiz night. "Knowledge is knowledge, But what happens when knowledge isn't knowledge?" Fact-checking worrisome thoughts are woven beautifully with COVID, conceiving babies, and the arguements that come with just needing to be right. With some more thought and sorting priorities, love triumphs in the end. This episode features the voice talents of Joel Fishbane, Musical Lemonade, and Lois Bell. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Alma's Anomalies is a comedic, audio drama by Robert Kelly McAllister. Ghost hunters, and aspiring podcasters, Alma and Moon Dog McCoy wait for the witching hour in hopes of summoning racecar driver Honeyboy Jack Schaefer from the chilly waters of Lake Superior's Gitchy-Gummi (uh, actually Kitchy-Koomi). Settle. Speed. Action. Alma’s Anomalies Episode One..... Many thanks to the cast and musicians. Original music by Bob D'Haene with Matt Vogel. This spooky paranormal episode features the voice talents of Christin Mason Martin, Christian Williams, Bob D'Haene, Guillermo Jantus, and Anita Dime. Full credits at Coffee Contrails..

The Gossip Queens is a comedic, audio drama by Steven Capasso. Three mafia widows reunite at a funeral. Gabbing as Italian mob wives from Jersey do, with language that would melt the ears of this decade, they look around and yeah, so, what do yoose do when your man's gone six feet under? Many thanks to the ladies who volunteered the time: Luisa Cardoza, Stefanie James, and Christin Mason Martin. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Listen to a casual interview with the cast of "The Gossip Queens": Steven Capasso, Luisa Cardoza, Stefanie James, and Christin Mason Martin. Chat about the artists' creative projects, distinguishing between the person and the brand, and AI. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.

Ingrid Remembers is an endearing love story and excerpt from T W Ladd's book: The Damaged Angel. Cancer sucks. Two women, Ingrid and Ava, face it, eventually, together. Their relationship is challenged, with one overcoming their guilt of not being sick in order to support the other. Both acknowledge that through it all, there is no other place they'd rather be than in each other's arms. Full credits at Coffee Contrails.