This Day In Deaths

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This Day in Deaths is a fiction podcast that sounds like a late-night obituary broadcast — except every name is invented, every death is specific, and every life is stranger and more ordinary than the last.

Each episode crosses midnight with a roll call of the day’s dead: where they were, what they were carrying, who survived them, and the small belongings nobody at the desk knew what to do with. A water-damaged children’s book. A shoebox marked ISLANDS. A coat with destinations written inside the lining. The worst thing in the world, told as plainly as a wet curb or a clock ticking from 11:58 to 11:59.

This is not true crime. It is not horror. It is immersive narrative fiction — compassionate, absurdist, and told with the gravity of a broadcast that has run out of room for euphemism.

New episodes regularly.

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The Map of Elsewhere
Episode 1: The Map of ElsewhereTonight, just after midnight, the first names arrive.In the premiere episode of This Day in Deaths, a ruined children’s book, a loose theater marquee letter, a coat lining full of handwritten destinations, and a returned library copy begin to draw a quiet map between strangers.Told as a late-night obituary broadcast, “The Map of Elsewhere” follows a series of fictional deaths reported from across the country: a young hotel worker in Sacramento carrying a damaged book, an Ohio geography teacher who mapped places he never visited, a San Francisco bakery worker saving for a journey into family history, a Duluth theater owner trying to reopen his family’s cinema for one impossible winter night, and a library worker whose final returned book has been missing for nine years.Some deaths are sudden. Some are quiet. Some are absurd. Some belong to people who wanted more than they had time to reach.Between each life, five seconds of ticking clocks mark the passage from one story to the next.This episode is about arrival, interruption, and the private maps people carry: in books, in buildings, in family stories, in coat linings, and in the names of places that may or may not exist.Featuring:Corinne ApplewhiteAmbrose K. WelliverDelbert SpoonNadine Van OrmanEvelyn CuskBrother Matthew of the Small PinesInez TallowFerris Bellwether NoonHollis VaneOrla Minnow“The day is over now. The clocks will begin again without them.”This Day in Deaths is a fictional obituary-radio series. Names, places, and events in this episode are invented.

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