PRL Serials

  • Water (Bishop Briggs) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    The human body is about sixty percent water. It’s a deceptive figure because we see our bodies as solid things moving through space and water is a fluid that only finds rigidity at cold temperatures.  But blood fills our veins, and our cells are full of water that is important for the absorption of nutrients.…

  • They Live – February 19, 20XX 1.

    February 19, 20XX They were human beings. Rodney Coffey spoke with his daughter at least once a week after their first initial call and usually, he was disappointed that there was no news about when she’d be able to return home from Europe. He was always anxious before answering her calls and he would say…

  • God Might Judge (Logic) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    She knows that he isn’t a nice man, but when she sees him, something deep inside of her comes alive.  Nice is boring. Nice is accomodating and listens to excuses.  Shantay is used to nice. She is always the nicest receptionist at the company where she works and if she keeps it up, she’ll be…

  • The House of Sorrows 1. continued ii

    On the first day of group therapy, Dr. Geoffrey smiled around at everyone. They met on the first floor and even though they had all moved into Dix Hill a few weeks prior, this was their first formal introduction to one another in a group session. “I hope that you all are as excited as…

  • Bohemian Trapsody (Logic) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    Telford Greene was a drug dealer.  After he graduated from college in 2008 with a degree in English literature, he found work in an office drafting letters for an attorney. It was part-time and his father had to beg the attorney, who was a high school friend, to hire Telford. There weren’t many job opportunities…

  • They Live – January 19, 20XX 1.

    January 19, 20XX The mysterious virus that spread to every corner of the world and killed about five thousand people a day, threw the world into chaos, but there was no large-scale collapse of societies or cultures around the globe. The humans of Earth maintained calm among the population of the uninfected by corralling the…

  • Body Remix (Tion Wayne, Russ Millions, Jack Harlow) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    Fiona English was a pseudonym. She wore the name perfectly though. It sounds like a stage name and it seems to fit a white woman of classic beauty with an arch accent and a diva attitude to match. Fiona was black, the first of her kind, but all other things are true about her. When…

  • The House of Sorrows 1. continued

    Time seems to move fast when we are engaged in a task that utilizes our minds and bodies. Dr. Geoffrey’s life to the time that he accepted the job offer at Dix Hill was painfully slow. He had an uneventful life and he had designed it that way to avoid the potential for emotional distress.…

  • They Live – December 19, 20XX

    Life is precarious, and special, and it should always matter. It should always be protected. That’s what my reverend said, and it’s what I believe.  But life is mysterious too. We think we understand what it means to be alive because we are, but we don’t really have any idea. Maybe our perception of a…

  • The House of Sorrows 1

    When the Dorothea Dix Hospital closed in 2012, many of the patients had already been transferred to other nearby mental health facilities. The official work of the hospital ceased with the transfer of the last patient, and many of the buildings of the hospital campus were scheduled for demolition following purchase of the property by…