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Novella Noir — where short-form fiction casts long shadows. Original, gritty audio dramas inspired by classic noir. In these stories, morality blurs, justice is crooked, and no one walks away clean. If you’re drawn to doomed souls, dark cities, and tragic choices, you’re in the right place. These are tales where the only truth is the one you can’t escape.
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ESPIONAGE NOIR Brussels, 1974. Frank Cahill is a veteran foreign correspondent running a dying wire bureau on borrowed time and cheaper Scotch. When a manila envelope lands on his desk containing photographs of a man who
INDUSTRIAL NOIR The press never stopped at Harlow Metalworks. Neither did the coughing. Vic Crane has supervised the night shift for eleven years — long enough to know when to look away, long enough that looking away has
PROCEDURAL NOIR Mara Voss counts other people's money in the dark. Eight years on the overnight shift at a dying savings bank, running reconciliations nobody reads, flagging variances nobody acts on — invisible by design
URBAN NOIR Morris Engel is a pawnbroker who trusts numbers above all else. His ledgers are meticulous, his records precise, his shop on the Port Carver waterfront a monument to quiet, orderly transactions. When a well-dr
PROCEDURAL NOIR Washington, 1944. Margaret Voss keeps the war at a careful distance — in ledger columns, in disbursement codes, in the arithmetic of other people's grief. She is good at her job. She is precise. She does
POLITICAL NOIR Frank Latta runs the night press at a dying Depression-era newspaper — one man doing three men's work, holding on by his fingernails while the world sheds jobs like dead skin. When the night editor hands h
PARANOID NOIR Ray Caulfield is a bail bondsman running on bourbon and bad math. When a routine skip-trace sends him eight hours into the Nevada desert chasing a two-bit jumped bail, he expects a fast turnaround and a twe
MEDICAL NOIR Mara Voss has spent eleven years reading the truth inside human bodies — light and shadow, clean and corrupted. She's good at her job. She doesn't ask questions she isn't paid to answer. Then she starts noti
RURAL NOIR Del Marsh has spent twenty-three years reading fire. She knows what ash remembers, what char reveals, what an origin point looks like when the cause is exactly what it appears to be. With eleven months until r
HISTORICAL NOIR Malaya, 1924. Thomas Marsh draws maps for the British colonial survey office — clean lines, precise work, no questions asked. It's a living. Then a quiet woman from the documentation desk lays two sheets
ART CRIME NOIR Martin Crale has spent thirty-one years handling other people's beautiful things. He knows the difference between what an object is and what it claims to be. It's the only skill that matters in his trade —
POLITICAL NOIR Three weeks before the vote, Ray Maddox works a dying ward with a clipboard and a flask, knocking on doors that don't want to open. It's the lowest rung of political work — unglamorous, thankless, invisibl
PROCEDURAL NOIR Oklahoma, 1936. The land is dying and so is everything that depends on it. Frank Dolan is a government surveyor doing dull, honest work in dust-bowl country — measuring parcels, filing reports, moving on.
SOUTHERN NOIR Calvin Pruett has embalmed four hundred souls in Catahoula Parish, and the dead have never once talked back. He's built his life on that silence — on the agreement between a discreet man and a town that pre
WARTIME NOIR Pacific, 1944. Petty Officer Frank Decker's job is to listen — and on a dead frequency, in the small hours, he hears something he wasn't supposed to. The transmission is clean, encrypted with Allied protocol
INSTITUTIONAL NOIR A routine compliance review. Four hours. A paralegal, a cold file, and a man who has spent seventeen years in prison for a crime the paperwork suggests he didn't commit. The evidence is right there in
INSTITUTIONAL NOIR Eddie Crale has been burying stories for years. It's what you do when the paper is dying, and the editor is careful and the city has long since decided what gets printed. Then an envelope lands on his
PROCEDURAL NOIR A forensic document examiner takes a lucrative contract to authenticate a billionaire's final signature on an amended will. The work is meticulous. The conclusion is sound. He signs his name and cashes th
NEO-NOIR Ray Maddox follows the police scanner through the small hours, selling crime scene photographs to whoever will still pay for them. He has no illusions about the work — until two frames shot through a gap in a pe
DOMESTIC NOIR When Margaret Crale rents her basement to a quiet, courteous stranger, she tells herself it's practical. The mortgage doesn't care about grief. Callum Voss pays three months upfront in cash, keeps impeccabl
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