“The Wait Between”

Every neighborhood has that house.Curtains closed. Grass too perfect. People keeping strange hours.For one summer, a nine-year-old me decides to figure out what’s going on across the street.I get some of it right.My Neighbors, the Vampires is a story about bicycles, notebooks, magnolia trees, long memories, and one wave that takes about thirty years to come back.Come for the vampires.Stay for the neighbors.Featuring the Randoverse song “Keystoned” by Punchline.Another chapter in A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees.

Look.It’s hot.There’s an ice cream truck.There’s something in the freezer that absolutely was not there before.And yes, Ice Creaming is the title.You’ve made it this far. You might as well find out.A slightly suggestive little Randoverse story about appetite, memory, summer, and the kinds of things that probably shouldn’t happen inside an ice cream truck.Come on.You know you want to.Listener warning: may be uncomfortable for those sensitive to hot and cold.Featuring Randoverse song: “Summer Nights” by BINKS!Another chapter in A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees.

Some things are better loved from a distance.Benjamin St. Fred has spent a very long time looking toward Earth…Small, blue, beautiful, and impossibly far away.Then one day, he decides to come closer.What follows is a story about loneliness, good intentions, impossible proportions, and the strange amount of space sometimes required to care for something gently.I first wrote Benjamin St. Fred back in 2011, across a handful of sticky notes, and painted a picture to go along with it. Fifteen years later, he found his way back.Benjamin St. Fred is an original Randoverse story about distant friends, enormous feelings, and what happens when something far too big simply wants to say hello.Featuring the Randoverse song “Small Changes in Scale” by How Great Were the Robins.Another chapter in A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees.

Three old stories.One Halloween night.And a pretty good excuse to see what happens when the veil gets thin.Welcome Back to The Randoverse: Volume Two opens the door with three stories from years ago, revisited now with new eyes, new music, and a little more life in them.They arrive together on Halloween.The rest of Volume Two follows from there, carrying The Randoverse into 2027.Turn the lights down.Put on headphones.Might as well use the veil while we’ve got it.

Old perspective. New eyes.Written across years, from my childhood notebooks to late-night fragments, The Randoverse returns with a new collection of original short fiction about impossible neighbors, unexpected sweetness, distant friends, and the strange things we carry with us long after we thought we’d left them behind.Some stories changed.Some waited.Some just needed me to catch up.A Guide to Levitating at Twenty-Three Degrees continues.New stories (to you). New sounds. New worlds.Same impossible little universe.The Randoverse: Volume Two.Welcome back.I’m glad you could make it.-Jash SaundersThe Randoverse is an original fiction podcast blending short stories, speculative fiction, surrealism, magical realism, nostalgia, dark comedy, horror, science fiction, and immersive audio storytelling.

A man takes to the river with a few unlikely traveling partners.The road ahead is rough. The water’s unpredictable.But the company? Better than he expected.The Prospect is a story about what happens when you head out looking for one thing and end up finding something else entirely.🎵 Featured Song: Good Company — Jesse Waldman

Every Greek play has that one moment:the stage still, the chorus watching, the hero stuck between choices.That’s this story.The moment that isn’t a moment at all. Just the wait.🎵 Featured Song: Choo Choo Parker Rose by Cowboy Supernova

A man.A bucket.Nothing unusual, until the moment it is.He isn’t searching for meaning.He isn’t searching for anything.But sometimes life taps you on the shoulder anyway.Pails in Comparison is a quiet story about the instant something everyday tilts…and you notice.🎵 Featured Song: Small Town Pride — Nick Loux

I wrote West Wings in 2015, wanting to try my hand at a modern fable. Something simple on the surface, but carrying a small oddness underneath. It follows a creature who ends up somewhere he never expected to be, carried by forces bigger than he understands, and changed in ways he won’t recognize until much later. A story about motion, chance, and the odd, wind-tossed places we sometimes land. And the feeling only home can bring.This, is West Wings. 🎵 Featured Song: “Sloop John B” — HillTopTrio

A desk rests in the middle of a field. Untouched by time.When I first wrote this story in 2010, I was experimenting with something more classical: long notes of description, soft edges, a bit of romantic prose inspired by the music I grew up hearing at home. I wrote it to feel like Little Bear meets a chamber piece. Simple, calm, and strangely alive. This episode is an invitation to wander through that space: where wildflowers lean in, memory lingers, and even the ordinary can feel orchestral.🎵 Featured Song: “Troy” — Lost In Japan