Hearthbound
Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards. Hearthbound is an award-winning folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way? Baltimore Next Media Web Festival - Best LGBTQ Audio Fiction, Best Score in a Podcast Winner | NYC Podcast Awards - Best Fiction Podcast Nominee | LA Webfest Awards - Best Script, Best Sound Design, Best Ensemble Cast Nominee
Episodes
Come along with us at hearthboundpod.com. [Transcript]
Odessa is not alone...
Content Warnings - mild swearing.
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Odessa meets a one-eyed shepherd...
Content Warnings - mild swearing.
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Odessa tags along...
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Odessa enters a labyrinth...
Content Warnings - brief gun violence, excessive swearing, mentions of death, mentions of grief.
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Odessa shelters from a storm...
Content Warning - mentions of grief, mentions of death, mentions of abandonment, mild swearing.
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We're taking a short mid-season break! In the meantime, we wanted to share the first episode of a friend of the pod, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, created by Jessica Best.
Biologist Violet Liu is floating through space, trapped in a doomed research ship. She's the sole survivor of a devastating explosion, and frankly, her odds aren't looking great, either. But when she is contacted by the charming— and woefully ine...
Odessa orders pork...
Content Warnings - graphic injury, brief gun violence, mild swearing.
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Odessa heeds a prophet...
Content Warnings - excessive swearing, misophonia.
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Odessa makes a choice...
Content Warnings - mild swearing.
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Penelope bargains...
Content Warnings - mild swearing, mentions of violence.
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Odessa gets caught in the rain...
Content Warnings - mild swearing, mentions of violence.
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Looking for another show after Hearthbound? In the spirit of finding rest and respite at the end of a long journey, we want to share the first episode of friend of the pod, Absolutely No Adventures, created by Destiny Howell.
Absolutely No Adventures is a scripted fantasy un-adventure podcast that follows Sig, a baker whose Miraculously Portentous Birth makes him a target for people from all over looking for a chosen one for quests...
You can now purchase Hearthbound's Original Soundtrack and The Road Trip version of the show at https://straylungs.bandcamp.com! You can also download for free high-quality audio files for all Hearthbound episodes.
And to close out the year, we want to share the first episode of friend of the pod, Travelling Light, a Monstrous Productions podcast, created by H.R. Owen and Matt McDyre.
Travelling Light is a queer and cosy scienc...
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