While investigating a murder, a single-celled detective encounters bacterial filaments, proto-multicellular colonies, and a new concept called "love."
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction
Excerpt:
"It's not an accident," Dina said. She spun out a flagellum to wave to him.
Harry sighed. "I wouldn't be here if it was."
He glanced over at the couple of uniformed diatoms who were keeping any floaters-by from getting too close a look at the crime scene. He glided toward Dina.
"How's your day so far, Doc?" he asked.
"Same as yours, I imagine. But much, much better than his."
Dina moved out of the way, giving Harry a better view of the victim.
What story or stories am I revisiting in this episode?
Each Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it's connected to or inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so on.
I've written at least a couple of previous stories about single-celled organisms doing and being more than they're expected. Here are those episodes:
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CREDITS
Story: "The Unicellular Detective" Copyright © 2021 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
"Smoke" by RAFAEL ARCHANGEL (Intro & Outro)
"Abstract Vision #5" by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)
Music by RAFAEL ARCHANGEL
"Persistence With Beat"
"So Cold"
"Deep Dive"
"Smoke"
"Forgotten"
"Persistence"
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY*
"Unsolved"
"Inspector"
"Trojan horse"
"Under the mask"
"Whispers"
"Doubts"
"Master"
"Negociation (seamless)"
*These tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market
Music by Rafael Archangel is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal
Sound effects from AudioJungle, GameDevMarket, and Soundly (through Hindenburg)
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my narration.
Find more music by Benjamin Carr and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net
Find more music by Rafael Archangel at Bandcamp
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art Description:
Digital image. Cartoon depictions of anthropomorphized unicellular organisms in a line. From left to right, three filaments of cyanobacteria, a Stentor, a paramecium with flagella who's wearing a fedora, a slime mold, and a dinoflagellate with glasses. The rectangular image is made square with top and bottom borders that extend the background texture. Watermark of "Storyfeather" along inner side of the Stentor.
