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Strange Country

Strange Country

By: Seth Ervin
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Strange Country is speculative and literary fiction, mostly Southern, read aloud by the author. Every other week, a new story — the kind that tilts the familiar a few degrees off-axis and sees what falls out. Set in a future looking more and more like our own.

Start with Episode One - Watch the Road.

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2026 Seth Ervin Science Fiction Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Memory Care

    Memory Care
    Jun 29 2026

    A trader works the floor of a market where memories are the only commodity that matters — bought, held, shorted, resold to anyone wired in. The job is a windfall. The apartment, the lover, the luck: all of it arrived at once, like a gift. A near-future story about gratitude as a product, and the long con of getting exactly what you want.
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    30 mins
  • Long Haul

    Long Haul
    Jun 21 2026

    Contains war content and strong language.

    A long-haul trucker drives the night shift on I-85 with a dead friend riding shotgun and a war starting back up on the radio. Max has pills for the panic attacks, an audiobook on meaning, and a phone call home he's not ready to make. Then a stranger dies in his arms at a truck stop, and the bill for someone else's kid comes due.

    Four years before the Turning. A story about debt, ghosts, and the math of going back.
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    31 mins
  • Faithful

    Faithful
    Jun 14 2026

    Faithful has been tending the dead at Memorial Acres for longer than most people have been alive. He digs the graves, witnesses the grief, and protects and keeps the grounds. The world and its grief continue to change, and so does Faithful.
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    32 mins
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