{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Stranded in Shadow","description":"When two friends hear a commotion in their mysterious new neighbor's apartment, they go to check, only to find the door open, and the apartment completely empty...well, almost empty. Genre: Mystery, Fantasy   Excerpt:The only object in the entire apartment was lying on the tiled kitchen floor. Broken into several pieces. A mug. I could make out a design on one of the larger shards. An eye. A wide open eye, just staring. I felt the hairs on my neck rise. I blinked. A liquid that looked like pink-orange milk was spattered across the tile, as if it spilled from the mug as the mug fell. Had we just walked into a crime scene?   The Wheel of Fiction Turns. What did it land on this time?Each Season 9 story follows a theme chosen by the Wheel of Fiction. Thirteen spokes. Eight are the themes from previous seasons. One is \u201cTurn Again.\u201d One is a wild card. And three are covered in question marks and will be revealed when the wheel lands on them. See a story trailer and a (satisfying) video of the wheel turning here: Stranded in Shadow This episode landed on PROMPTS. The prompt I used to inspire this story was a long one. The writer is given a paragraph that starts a story, and challenged to continue and finish it. I read the whole prompt out in the episode\u2019s outro. Prompt Source: 500 Creative Prompts (Publisher: Piccadilly Inc.) Find more stories and episodes that revisit previous stories here: Year of Prompts.   MERCH!Interested in merch, like mugs and notebooks, featuring my artwork?Please visit my Store page for info on where you can buy: STORYFEATHER STORE   The Store page also has sign-up forms for my two email newsletters: Storyfeather Gazette (if you\u2019d like to keep up with the fiction I create) Fictioneer\u2019s Field Guide (if you\u2019d like writing tips and guidance from me)  Choose what you want. (Either way, you're choosing high jinks.)   MY FIRST BOOK (yay)Ever wonder how I\u2019ve gotten all these hundreds of stories written? I have a method. You can learn it in my book called Fictioneer\u2019s Field Guide: A Game Plan for Writing Short Stories. It\u2019s now available from Amazon as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover. You can also get there from my Store page: STORYFEATHER STORE   CREDITSStory: \u201cStranded in Shadow\u201d Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Nila L. PatelNarration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel   Music:\u201cUnder the mask\u201d by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Intro)\u201cReloaded\u201d by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Outro)\u201cAbstract Vision #5\u201d by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)   Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)\u201cTrojan horse\u201d\u201cNegociation"\u201cDNA\u201d\u201cAs it happenned\u201d\u201cMaster\u201d\u201cReloaded\u201d\u201cMindhunter\u201d\u201cThe deal\u201d\u201cSecret agent\u201d\u201cVirtual reality\u201d\u201cMen in black\u201d\u201cDoubts\u201d\u201cUnder the mask\u201d All 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 MarketSound 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 Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com   Episode Art Description:Digital drawing. View down a stairwell, where a person with long hair sits within a shadow with knees drawn up and hands clasped around the left leg. The person is glancing up the stairs. A pool of glowing pink-orange liquid collects on the highest visible stair, trickling down the stairs along the hazy border of the shadow. A door is partly visible at the bottom of the stairs. Watermark of \u201cStoryfeather\u201d along top step. ","author_name":"Storyfeather","author_url":"http:\/\/storyfeather.libsyn.com\/site","html":"