City of 4,000 Spies: Trip Home
After a short hiatus, Appaloosa Radio has begun production on Season Two of its Podcast. We begin Season Two by offering a new story from the City of 4000 Spies series.
This time Noble Son Dusko Rarrko is in the very distant Ganna 40 Sector on a very hush-hush assignment of an unspecified nature He is working for a sponsoring entity that carries out actions of an indeterminate kind.
Then, he receives a secret message from PNB7Q. “Return home immediately on first available transport.”
Unfortunately, the only available transport is a very slow cargo klunker, designed for carrying extremely heavy loads to and from the mines. It carries passengers only as a necessary courtesy. Sixteen seats. No food. No drink. No entertainment.
Rarrko must spend the next 96 earth revolutions trapped in a 20-meter by 20-meter, very bare-bones passenger comparment with fifteen strangers, bound together by their boredom and monotony.
It turns out to be, as he says later, “a most eventful trip.”
This audio story also pays partial homage to the 1954 film, The High and The Mighty, probably one of the finest “air disaster” films to come from Hollywood. See if you find those elements!
Enjoy Season Two!
Whistler music:
Under Paris Skies. Kunstpfelfer Sirus. Accessed through YOUTUBE on 2-1-2022
