The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
Loki finally gives Lilith what she’s been pushing for: scale. Organize in cells, keep each group small, and let the structure multiply faster than anyone can shut it down. A month later, the theory becomes a field in the woods, packed with tents, teenagers, and a barn so crowded it feels like peak Burning Man. Babylon plays, and the response is immediate. The chant begins before the first song starts, and continues after they’ve left the stage.
Lilith pulls the band out of their post-show bliss, gathers new loyalists, and takes them straight into a four-star hotel like it’s already theirs. In the suite, she starts selecting who stays close and who gets turned away. By the time the door opens again, she’s offering a mark, a name, and a place inside her fast-growing cult. 
Next stop, apocalypse.
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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.
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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?
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We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season.
The hotel suite is wrecked—furniture overturned, glass scattered, a TV blaring to no one. It looks like Guns N’ Roses blew through. Outside the door, Loki and Artemis stand watch, talking logistics. Jammed phone lines. Security scrambling. And Babylon’s “fans”? Starting to act less like followers and more like a weapon you can aim at the agents who are surely tracking them.
Then Loki wakes Dionysus for the problem that isn’t law enforcement. The parking lot is filling, and word is spreading faster than any plan can contain. 
After the next track straight out of their mobile recording studio, the episode shifts to the voice of our narrator: Gabriel De Leon, writing in his journal a year ago with quiet certainty. He reads letters from recruits and pauses on one detail that makes him look up. Someone from Pennhurst is in play.
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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.
In the final episode of Season 5, Johny finishes the story of how he ends up in Pennhurst, and it’s far from heroic. In fact, it’s somewhat humiliating: a grocery run that turns into a panic spiral, a collapse in a parking lot, and Stella watching him with a distance he can’t close. 
She leaves a month later. Johny is falling further into his neurosis, but he doesn’t call a doctor or a friend. He calls Bradley the Buyer.
Bradley answers like he expected it. He reframes the breakup as “timing,” offers exactly what he always offers, and pushes Johny toward one more operation with higher stakes and sharper consequences. 
When Johny confronts him after his capture at the conclusion of his tale, Bradley doesn’t apologize or explain. He calls it method and hangs up. A beat later, he makes another call, and another agent picks up the line...
This concludes season 5. Stay tuned for Season 6 summer 2026, where we reach the dramatic conclusion to Cycle 2: Party At The World’s End. 
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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).
 

Updates from the author about what's been going on behind the scenes, and some information about our linked projects in the works... 
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. 
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. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development. 
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 single bulb swings in a hotel room that looks like a crime scene — which, more or less, it is. 
Mike checked in as a freelance web developer; a week later he’s broke, strung out, cornered, and holding a small object that every cartel on three continents wants back. Every exit he reaches for falls apart in his hands. Then there’s a knock at the door... 
Season 6 of the Fallen Cycle Mythos opens on the night Mike stops running from his life and looks for a way to cash in. A drug-soaked noir overture about debt, dumb luck, and the strange comfort of becoming no one, “How To Disappear Completely” is a new perspective into everything that follows.
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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. 
Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  
Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny. A world sleepwalking its way toward the cliff, or as Dionysus would have it, to the “edge of transformation.”
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
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. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development. 
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.
Somewhere on the endless American interstate, a tour bus the size of a whale carries a band that is becoming something closer to a religion. Babylon plays for crowds that arrive like pilgrims, and behind the throbbing bass and the body paint, its members are starting to suspect their dreams are bleeding into one another — and into something far older. Meanwhile, a federal agent named Trevino sifts through the wreckage they leave behind, certain it adds up to more than bad music and felony theft.
“Wandering Stars” follows the Fallen Cycle's mythpunk rock cult as it grows: live-television ambushes, desert initiations, and a prophet who talks about the apocalypse the way other people talk about the weather.
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. 
Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  
Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal and darkly funny. A world sleepwalking its way toward the cliff, or as Dionysus would have it, to the “edge of transformation.”
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
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. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development. 
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.
Not everyone riding with Babylon signed up for a religion. Some are just kids who ran out of other options, traveling in packs across a country that already failed them, doing what they have to. One of them is beginning to understand exactly what kind of thing she’s become part of — and quietly looking for the exit.
When Lilith and Jesus peel off for a midnight joyride, a routine stop at a roadside diner turns on a single ugly word. “Stray Bullets” is about how violence finds the people who go looking for it and the people who don't — and how one tired federal agent learns that the cleanest way to hunt a movement is to invent the war you need to justify the hunt. Their gonzo roadtrip gets decidedly darker.
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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. 
Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  
Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal, darkly funny, and poised, a world sleepwalking its way toward the cliff, or as Dionysus would have it, to the “edge of transformation.”
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
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. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development. 
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.
Rewind to 2007 — before the band, before the bus, before the bodies. A burned-out corporate infiltrator called Bradley the Buyer spends his days gaming the stock of the pharmaceutical giant that employs him, and his nights wondering why the whole world feels so deeply, structurally wrong. The answer arrives in a boardroom — and it’s a great deal stranger than he bargained for.
“Birth of the Syndicate” is the origin story of the conspiracy at the heart of this story: one man’s terrible, brilliant idea that corporations are bodies, that bodies get cancer, and that a few well-placed cells can bring a giant to its knees. This is where the long con began — and where the “gods” get their funding.
Audio Edition Credits
This fiction 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. 
Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band.  
Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation: brutal, darkly funny, and poised, a world sleepwalking its way toward the cliff, or as Dionysus would have it, to the “edge of transformation.”
The soundtrack was produced by James Curcio, with special thanks to collaborators new and old including Jenn E, Dave Bessell, Scott Landes, Sarah and Rahul Iyer, Marz 233, P. Emerson Williams, Martine DellaRufa, and all the others who sat in on the subQtaneous sessions.
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. Mythpunk story engine RPG in development. 
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).