One: Forever Alone: Recent Episodes

J.A. Laraque

This podcast is based on the novel, One by J.A. Laraque

Have you ever wanted to be alone, truly all by yourself? Timothy Hayden felt that way. A young man, just 21, only a year ago he lost his father Alexander to a drunken driver. Since then he has watched his mother Martha pull away from her beliefs and cling to her two children. Timothy has watched his carefree sister Ashley become more quiet and introverted. While his keen intellect and logical sense tells him they have not truly adapted it is they whom question his adaptation.

Timothy feels he has dealt with the life fate has handed him and that everyone else including his girlfriend, Christine is projecting their issues onto him. His shaded bedroom high above the gold cost of Chicago is not far enough away from their distractions.

Timothy goes to bed wishing to be free and awakens in a world void of all life. Now Timothy must not only unravel the mystery of a world without another live soul, but the haunting visions and thoughts being forced upon him. As his journey begins, he thinks back to what his sister told him the night before everything began.

“When you’re all alone and the only voice you can hear is your own, you find out the truth about yourself.”

No longer alone, Timothy struggles to adapt to his new reality with, Ana.

Timothy discovers he is not alone, but can he trust the person he has met is real?

Pushing forward toward the answers he so desperately seeks, Timothy is diverted onto a road that could lead to his ruin.

A conversation with Christine over the death of a loved reveals the truth feelings Timothy has about death, family and love.

Timothy returns home and finds further proof that his family has been keeping things from him.

Timothy remembers the moment when he lost Jonathan's friendship forever.

Timothy fights to continue forward as both his mind and body begin to fail him.

Timothy struggles to find the will to continue his search for answers.

Finally reunited with Christine, Timothy begins his road to recovery.

Timothy comes to grips with leaning that he has been under psychiatric treatment for over a year.

Timothy awakens after his fall hoping to find peace, but the truth he will have to come to accept may be more than his mind can handle.

Continuing his search for any signs of life, Timothy makes his way to Ashley's High School in search of answers only to find more shadows of the past.

Timothy searches for another location that may reveal answers to his living mystery as the nightmares from his past comes into focus.

Timothy recalls the moment his family lost their faith.

Still realing from Christine's letter, Timothy makes his way to his families church to search for survivors.

Timothy's desperate search for Christine leads to a startling revelation.

As the raging fires spread toward Christine's home, Timothy rushes to see what or whom he can save.

Timothy encounters a memory from his past, could it provide a clue to his present.

Timothy stands at the brink as he watches the world burn around him.

Timothy tries to peice together the timeline leading up to him awaking in the empty world.

Timothy rushes home to learn the fate of his family.

Timothy encounters a massive accident as the mystery of his situration deepens.

Timothy awakens to a new day and a new world.

Timothy confronts his mother and sister over his increasing isolation from the family.

At the end of his journey, Timothy recounts the beginning of the dark path that led him to his fate.