The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

We are all just costumes death wears for a season.
The dream breaks. In this second chapter of The Spring Tree, we leave the inner monologue behind and enter the cold aftermath. A video store clerk is found dead in a snow-choked alley. Detective Trevino and his team arrive to sort the real from the surreal. Blood on the pavement, a name scrawled on a ruined notebook: Nyssa.
As the investigation begins, the boundaries between routine and uncanny start to blur.
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“Tales From When I Had A Face” was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
This episode is accompanied by an immersive soundtrack produced by James Curcio, featuring collaborating artist David Bessell. 
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
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Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Many Cycles begin in a world much like our own, with characters who know little of the world beyond their waking lives. Gradually, the crack opens between the mundane and the fantastic, the wondrous and the horrific, the past and the future. 
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We are all just costumes death wears for a season.
Nyssa finally gets to speak for herself, and she has a lot to say. Blood, memory, and myth collide as she retraces the night everything changed—revealing the truth of her identity and setting the stage for The Spring Tree’s conclusion.
Order the Tales From When I Had A Face B&W illustrated edition now for just $20!
“Tales From When I Had A Face” was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
This episode is accompanied by an immersive soundtrack produced by James Curcio, featuring collaborating artist David Bessell. 
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Many Cycles begin in a world much like our own, with characters who know little of the world beyond their waking lives. Gradually, the crack opens between the mundane and the fantastic, the wondrous and the horrific, the past and the future. 
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We are all just costumes death wears for a season.
Here we hear the conclusion of our first tale.
As that Cycle closes, a new one opens. Next up will be our audio production of Party At The World’s End. Expect those episodes to start rolling out in 2026. In the meantime, explore more of the Fallen Cycle at our website. 
Order the Tales From When I Had A Face B&W illustrated edition now for just $20!
“Tales From When I Had A Face” was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
This episode is accompanied by an immersive soundtrack produced by James Curcio, featuring collaborating artist David Bessell. 
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Many Cycles begin in a world much like our own, with characters who know little of the world beyond their waking lives. Gradually, the crack opens between the mundane and the fantastic, the wondrous and the horrific, the past and the future. 
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
The first episode of Cycle 2 starts with a 5 minute introduction from the author and show producer. Then we begin with our story... 
March 15, 2012. In the fourth ward of a locked psychiatric facility, Dionysus measures time by med rounds, fluorescent lights, and the same arguments looping in the dayroom. His file says “domestic terrorist” after an ‘incident’ at a mall. On the unit with him are Johny, sharp-eyed and volatile, and Jesus, brilliant and withdrawn, barely willing to speak. Dionysus insists the place runs on rules: routine, compliance, and the threat of restraint.
But on a day that should have been identical to the last, something arrives that doesn’t fit the schedule... 
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
Cycle 1: “Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. B&W print edition available on Amazon. 
Cycle 2: “Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
A storm presses against Pennhurst as Dr. Fein writes meticulous notes to stay ahead of his own fraying focus and growing paranoia. He expects predictable patients and controllable sessions. Instead he gets “Meredith,” who calls herself Jesus and won’t cooperate, and Dionysus, who turns every question back on Fein and the institution. Fein reaches for procedure. The room refuses to stay clinical.
Later, sedated and strapped down after a particularly hostile interaction with Dr. Fein, Dionysus slips into a dream with a peculiar mythic resonance: a woman who seems all too familiar, corridors that repeat, doors that don’t open, and a clerk who insists everything requires authorization. 
Alarms cut through the fog. Loki is inside the ward, urging him awake. The escape starts with cut restraints and a sprint for the motor pool before anyone can lock the ward down again. Who was that woman?
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on Bandcamp and other streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore more at FallenCycle.Com  
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Johny Jones, a.k.a. “Agent 888,” retells the mall incident that became a headline and a charge sheet. This begins his arc retelling what led up to their incarceration. He swears the story people know is wrong, and he traces it back to the moment everything shifted: a phone call from Bradley “the Buyer,” a man who talks like a handler and laughs like it’s all a game.
Johny tries to keep it light, but Bradley won’t let him. He pushes him toward an Op Johny knows he shouldn’t take, and speaks in half-coded language that makes refusal feel dangerous. He recognizes the hook, tells himself to cut free—then stays on the phone long enough for inertia to do its work.
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Adam Trevino comes home suspended after his run-in with Nyssa over a year previous (the machinations of bureaucracy are slow) and tries to disappear into an ordinary night. Then he hears the message on his answering machine: he’s been appointed a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal and ordered to report at 7:00 a.m. to Room 101. 
On the news, footage from Pennhurst paints Dionysus and Jesus as unstable patients who staged a violent breakout and took a hostage. Trevino watches the broadcast and catches what it leaves out.
In a federal building basement, three near-identical suits lay out the real assignment. They hand him a classified file, tell him Loki is still out, and make it clear the escape is not the whole story. Trevino’s job is to watch, map the connections, and wait for the moment they can cut this budding insurrectionary network at the throat.
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Back in 2011, Johny tries to keep his life with Stella intact, pretending Bradley’s call was meaningless. Then an email arrives from “Agent 156.” It reads like a prank questionnaire, but it’s an instruction set: coded language, cell-talk, and a directive to meet at the King of Prussia mall. Johny tells himself it’s performance art with a little paranoia baked in.
At the mall, he’s in a bumble-bee patterned hazmat suit waving a homemade scanner over strangers while other “agents” act out their own variations of bureaucratic menace. It plays like theater until the response is real: shouting, SWAT gear, a crowd that turns on a dime. Johny runs, tossing pieces of his costume, and still ends up on the floor in handcuffs.
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Fresh off their escape, Dionysus and the others duck into a roadside bar to hide and regroup. Instead they meet Lilith, a redheaded woman who can take over a room without raising her voice. Soon she has them on stage, turning their panic into a set and the crowd into something louder and stranger than a normal show. People don’t just cheer. They move together, as if they’ve been waiting for a cue for bacchanal.
Afterward, Lilith names the thing they’re apparently building: Babylon. 
Knowing that they’re still fugitives, they stop improvising and start organizing. They steal a mobile broadcast rig, repaint it, and make it their rolling base of operations. Later, Dionysus hits record on an open transmission, and for the first time in a while their story isn’t confined to one room.
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
 
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Johny is losing time. His thoughts jump tracks, his memories come back twisted and tangled, and the “Op” starts to feel less like a joke and more like a trap he agreed to without noticing. He replays conversations with Bradley and starts to question his sanity. Stella should be safety, but even her silence feels loaded. Then a detail he’s ignored for years becomes impossible to unsee: Stella’s monarch tattoo.
The nights turn into fragments and dreams bleed into waking. Faces shift, names don’t stick, and Bradley’s voice keeps showing up where it shouldn’t. Johny wakes to a phone call that starts as nonsense and snaps into a single instruction. When he looks outside, the sky has turned the color of an apocalypse.
Audio Edition Credits
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, PodBean, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and of course RSS. 
 
“Tales From When I Had A Face” (Seasons 1-4) was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson. 
“Party At The World’s End” (Seasons 5-6) was written by James Curcio, with special thanks to JF Stackhouse and Nate Sampsel for collaboration on earlier editions. 
 
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Bradley the Buyer, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
“Cut the Sky’s Throat,” an album selected from this feature’s soundtrack by Lilith & The Bacchae is available on various streaming platforms.
This podcast is Creative Commons 3.0, allowing for Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-commercial use, and features adult themes.
Explore More At FallenCycle.Com
A mythpunk universe combining elements of speculative fiction, magical realism, fantasy and near-future noir.
Perhaps you've been having prophetic dreams that won't stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice every time you leave your apartment. But those are just dreams... right?
Support Us On Patreon
Enjoy what you hear? Subscribe, share and support us for full digital access and Discord benefits for just $5. Upon reaching our first funding goal, we'll introduce a $20 tier with additional perks like annual art prints and pins and new product exclusives (comics, novels, etc).