The 3:57 by William E. Spear

The 3:57 by William E. Spear

An anthology of serialized stories from comedy to drama to supernatural. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

March 11, 2020 3 mins
Orphaned and homeless teenager Chris Rowe has decided to look for a better life. After 90 minutes of walking, a set of keys with a note that reads, "Bring the keys to row Z, number one thousand and nine" is found. It is the beginning of a 20-year adventure.

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Orphaned and homeless teenager, Chris Rowe, has received a car while looking for a better life. Everything seems great until the car stops in a busy intersection.

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After surviving a near collision when the Odyssey refused to move from an intersection, Chris has run out of gas. But without any money, the teenager's journey for a better life seems to be coming quickly to an end.

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Chris has run out of luck and is leaving the diner when the manager says, "I have an idea."

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Nearly two years ago, Chris Rowe went looking for a better life . . . and found one! But the teenager will receive information that forces a choice between staying in the new life or giving it up.

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Chris Rowe's better life has been interrupted by a search to find a dying stranger. But will the teenager find her in time?

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Chris went with the talking car to search for a dying stranger. But, unexpectedly, she knew the teenager. Chris wants to know how. 

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Zoey is recovering from hypothermia in her hospital room and telling Chris of their past connection. But the teenager doesn't want any memories of home and changes the direction of the conversation.

 

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Chris realizes why Zoey was rescued and argues with the talking car. Furious over losing a chance at a better life, the soon-to-be-twenty-year-old drives for a day and a half without saying a word to the Odyssey. When finally stopping for a dinner of shrimp, cornbread, and sweet tea, Chris enjoys more than just a meal.

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Chris Rowe got a glimpse of a long dreamed of better life in a unexpected setting: a diner full of strangers. Despite arguing with the Odyssey, the almost-twenty-year-old promises their quest will continue the next day.

 

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January 14, 2023 3 mins
The story is about an unnamed character whose daily ritual is interrupted. There are no warnings or explanations. Only change.

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January 24, 2023 3 mins
As the temperature drops, the unnamed character from Episode One is contemplating the circumstances of the unexplained fence and KEEP OUT sign. What will it do?

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February 19, 2023 2 mins
Rose FM’s liberation program has been performed annually on Eniark’s Independence Day. But this year, the broadcast has been interrupted.

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February 28, 2023 3 mins
The Voice of Aissu announced plans to redress crimes against Eniark from more than one hundred years ago. Families torn apart during the Dark Times would be reunited. However, Eniark would cease to exist as a separate country.

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March 7, 2023 3 mins

Severin Vincent Tennyson is a janitor at Gunderson High School in central New Jersey, U.S.A. Nicknamed Tenny, voices and smells trigger feelings from his past.


He is about to have a memory he hasn't felt in a long time.


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In the previous episode, Tenny, the janitor, collapsed after being overwhelmed by an ancient memory. His job coach, Jennifer Hargrove, is helping him to stand up.

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March 21, 2023 3 mins
In the previous episode, the perfume of the Superintendent recalled a lost feeling inside of Tenny that caused him to yell, "Seventeen," run out of the auditorium, and leave a stunned Chief of Staff behind.

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March 28, 2023 3 mins
In the previous episode, Principal Baker accused Superintendent di Stefano of hiding from her past. Now di Stefano is fighting back.

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A retired undercover operative is contacted to investigate a diner that changed the music in its jukebox. But this is no ordinary diner. It's Jim and Francine Dale's place started 70 years ago. And the operative has a history of unleashing encounters of the cerebral kind.

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The Messenger has received troubling news that the diner started by Jim and Francine Dale is about to go broke. It was started in the nineteen-fifties and has many, many cherished memories. But the Messenger is doubtful.

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