University of the Surreal
A SERIALIZED FICTION PODCAST: A gigantic Goldfish Bowl, three stories high, has appeared overnight in the university quad. No one knows where it came from. No one knows what it means. But the fish need feeding, a committee has been formed to determine how many subcommittees the situation requires, and somewhere in the Administration Building, a college president is too busy drowning in his inbox to look up. Welcome to the University of the Surreal, a campus where the impossible keeps happening — and somehow, that's not even the strangest part. https://www.universityofthesurreal.com
Episodes
Afterword: Greetings, next steps, and a brief reflective practice from the University of the Surreal's author and narrator.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is the Afterword of Season One: Office...
Cassie reports to the Circle of Elders, who discuss what's coming next; back at the University, the impossible has found a new way in.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is Episode 9 of Season One:...
Three more doppelgangers arrive with their explanations for the Goldfish Bowl — and Cassie tries a different approach entirely, one that gets somewhere none of the arguments could.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to ...
Three versions of Alan arrive to explain, with great conviction, why a trash can is exactly where it should be — and none of their reasoning quite holds up.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is Episod...
The elevator stops on a floor that doesn't exist, Alan steps into an office that is almost but not quite his own, and Cassie is already there, waiting for a mysterious meeting to begin.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best li...
A literature professor turned president, Alan has spent his career believing the world is a text to be interpreted; standing before the Goldfish Bowl at night, he's no longer sure he knows how.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast...
An invisible wall stops Alan from crossing the street — and the words he overhears from a stranger on a bench land hard enough to stop the world around him.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is Episod...
The consultants arrive with their pitch — Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt — and Alan sees through the spin while being unable to resist its spell.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is Episode 3 of Season One...
A last-minute dinner is already an unwelcome addition to Alan's calendar; the server who seems to appear everywhere on campus at once makes it considerably stranger.
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Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. ...
Meet Alan, university president: he's so exhausted that he doesn't even blink when Googly Eyes sprout from his blueberry scone.
For more, including sources of inspiration for this story: https://www.universityofthesurreal.com
Written and narrated by Melanie Ho (https://www.melanieho.com)
Background Music: Wild Soul by Reveille
University of the Surreal is a serialized fiction podcast best listened to in order. This is Episode ...
TRAILER
A gigantic Goldfish Bowl, three stories high, has appeared overnight on the university quad. No one knows where it came from. No one knows what it means. But the campus bureaucracy gets to work. The Faculty Senate forms a committee to determine how many subcommittees the situation requires. Consultants pitch a new software system to track Goldfish Bowl activities.
There was, of course, another campus that once had a simil...
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