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Peter Hoflich

Original short fiction, set to ambient sound. Each story is self-contained, with no two stories remotely similar, veering from plot-driven narrative to esoteric and experimental. A wild ride.

Noise! Noise!! NOISE!!! NOOOOOOOIIIIIIISSEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Fashion show, subway train...

A murder plot turns a turn-plot murder-a!

Is this telephone club a suicide club, or a murder cult...? Or both!?

A shadowy, fashionable secret agent world where we are in love, but hate our lovers.

A despicable man distrusts his despicable wife... and then THIS happens!!

The black days are here again...

A secret agent walks into a bar...

A story about a guy who wants to write a story.

A toxic relationship invites bait.

What is the cause of irrational behaviour...?

A picture can't tell a lie... can it?

I wanna tell you about a guy...

An infinity of parallel lives is set forth with a single false move...

A man walks into a bar...

"This is perhaps the end, my Teutonic slave..."

A metafictional, metaphysical murder mystery...

A conversation of insults gets out of hand...

Writers meet at the wedding of a dead man...

Walking home at night, a man spots something glittering...

One thing leads to another in a school gone insane...

A tale of a wild, schizophrenic cabbie ride through an urban centre looking for...

A tale of ancient traditions for the dead... and the deadly!

History repeats itself. "Any murders today?", she asks...

The tale of a man out on the cruise with one phrase on his mind...

I farm a field... and what I find there!!

This is a story of living dreams...

This is a story of a man and his families...

This is a story of a classic battle on the edge of a cliff! During a hurricane!! While a house burns!!! And an assassin is on the loose!!!!

This is a story of life imitating literature.

This is a story of a moment captured vividly in the universe.

This is a story of a man who seeks a parallel life...

This is a story of an imperfect man who has a chance to experience a perfect life!

This is a story of the world of literature - slashes of life!

This is a story about... identifying super-humans.

This is a story of ancient times meeting modern times via the computer inter-face...

This is a story of a man struggling with memory loss who senses a thought that he cannot capture...

This is a story of a man who becomes less-and-less himself... literally!

This is a story of an unimaginable civilisation that has centred itself around a maze.

This is a story of a population-controlled future, the new world, and the new-new world.

This is a story of a man who isn't what he seems, in love with a man who isn't what she seems.

This is a story of language, language learning, language madness, language chaos....!!!

This is a story of love, hearts, heartbeats...

This is a story of a legendary hero's secret history!!

This is a story of a man with a simple life who thinks too much... about orange juice!

This is a story of transcendent generations hunting through the northern territories!

This is a story of language and noise, order and chaos...

This is a story about communication in an alien land...

This is a story about somewhere none of us have ever been...

This is a story about an existential bankheist! Word!!

This is a story of thugs engaged in language surfing! Word!!

"I had a dream last night that I punched you in the face."

"That wasn't a dream - that really did happen!!"

This is a story of a very strange voyage!

This is a story of... good surreal, and bad surreal!

This is a story of a loner named Willard. But is that his real name...?

This is the trailer for a new podcast of original short fiction, set to ambient sound. Each story is self-contained, with no two stories remotely similar, veering from plot-driven narrative to esoteric and experimental. A wild ride.