Alex listens in on the adventures of a man caught in a predicament not much different from his own... will either be able to escape?

Creator's note: This episode is a bit different from the rest and includes soundscapes that are better experienced with headphones. For this week, I got some friends into the recording booth with me - a special thanks to them for letting me borrow their voices and putting up with my countless retakes!

This episode features:

Sjoerd Heegstra as Alex West

Jorijn Holstvoogd as Jeremy Fischer

Julia Rudlang as Officer Lawrence

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by ingudios, kimuracarter, tom_a73, Splushionsindasky, kyles, Sandermotions, GoodListener, Sheyvan, bmcken, SophieMezaM, Kiyoshiakira, rivernile7, Sethroph, dheming, DWOBoyle, ListenTonyBoy, wolfdoctor, rachaelbuchanan, yewbic, crashoverride6, Astounded, snuq, hargissssound, LamaMakesMusic, InspectorJ, NachtmahrTV, MWsfx, AntoineRomo and previously credited artists via freesound.org.

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.

What if... emotions were tangible?

Content warning: contains slight themes of mental health and emotional disorders

Special thanks to:

Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.

Voices:

Alex West played by Sjoerd Heegstra

Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by GregorQuendel, szegvari, ERH, Tri-Tachyon, Lex777, NachtmahrTV, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.

Creator's note: Here's another what if that sparked a story. This episode had the second most rewriting (the first episode was completely rewritten three times and still had a lot of major edits after that), probably because this is my first attempt at writing romance in over 13 years, so it was quite a challenge. Only time will tell how effectively I tackled it. One of my favourite parts of writing short stories strung together is that I get to try out different genres (one of the big downsides is that I have to come up with names - lots of names - not to mention characters).

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/the-inside.

Scott Faulkner picked up an unwanted entourage... is it a blessing or a curse?

Special thanks to:

Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.

Voices:

Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by Space_Radio, phantastonia, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.

Creator's note: One moment in this story is directly inspired by an anecdote that one of my family members told me... It's always fun to work little things like that into my writing (and definitely not a trick I use to get past writer's block haha... haha...ha...).

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.

What if you saw people where they couldn't be?

Special thanks to:

Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.

Voices:

Nathanial Barrowich played by Schuyler Garfield

Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by FunWithSound, Lex777, tdumoulin, MaxDemianAGL, deleted_user_7146007, klankbeeld, janbezouska, PatrickLieberkind, GregorQuendel, kjartan_abel, Bergstein, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.

Creator's note: This series of stories started out with a series of what-ifs. Here's one of them.

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.

A young woman lives with different faces.

Special thanks to:

Morgana Bird and Tessa Vroom for their endless patience and feedback as I kept bringing them draft after draft like a dog that wants to play fetch.

Frances Byrd, Vita Schouten, and Elizabeth Vroom for additional feedback and support.

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by kjartan_abel (Darkest Thursday, Winterstorm I, and Noir) and previously credited artists via freesound.org.

Creator's note: Hope you are enjoying the show! You might notice the soundscaping is different than the previous episode. Just as each story is unique, the storytelling method might surprise you from time to time. Titles often trip me up, so when drafting I often put in placeholders based off of some random association I have. I actually meant to find a different title for this one (as a joke when writing the original draft I'd titled it "Ch-Ch-Ch-Changer (Face the Strange)" and kept forgetting to re-name it...) but got so used to this that, well, here we are haha. On a completely different note, did anyone notice something unusual about one of the names in this particular tale?

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.

Welcome to The Inside...

A boy who gets lost in his own memories attempts to retrace his steps.

Note: This episode contains additional soundscaping, it is recommended to listen with headphones for the best experience.

Special thanks to:

Morgana Bird and Tessa Vroom for their endless patience and feedback as I kept bringing them draft after draft like a dog that wants to play fetch.

Frances Byrd, Vita Schouten, and Elizabeth Vroom for additional feedback and support.

Tessa Vroom for lending her audio editing expertise and helping me create my own sound.

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects this week by Jack_Hase, sidequesting, leonelmail, Tetrisrocker, 16GPanskaSibinska_N, joseph.larralde, huskpodcast.com, qubodup, blouhond, avakas, suhral, dibko, marcelweiss, Eelke, seventhsamurai, NachtmahrTV, shall555, whirlproductions, j1987, 15GPanskaZacekSamuel, amholma, kyles, qubodup, luminadii, Yuvaland previously credited artists via freesound.org.

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.

A little taste of the story to come.

The Inside is a fantasy audio-drama podcast woven together from the tales of unlikely heroes. The first episode will be released on June 13th around 15:00 CEST.

Creator's note:

Hello!

The Inside has been a passion project of mine for the past two years (though the first stories and structure started to take shape as far back as 2017). I'm so excited to finally be going live! This started as a way to work on my writing and voice acting, but I ended up picking up a whole host of new skills along the way, such as editing, soundscaping, audio file recovery (don't ask), directing, project management... the list goes on. Thank you so much to the many people who have helped so far, and thanks in advance to those I'll be bothering in the near future (you know who you are). My family and friends have provided countless hours of feedback, tips, and even lent their voices. I'd also like to give a shout out to The Magnus Archives, which inspired the format of this podcast when I was struggling with how to link my stories together. I hope that this show provides comfort, entertainment, and perhaps a little spark to your days.

Happy listening!

Anika

Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.

Sound effects by cabled_mess, rucisko, harrietniamh, straget, FlatHill, InspectorJ, klankbeeld via freesound.org.

The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/the-inside.