Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

Hosted ByAlan V Hare

Journey into the Improbable

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All Episodes

The Chimera

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After suffering a heart attack, Marcos learns he will need a transplant. However, the replacement organ is in Marcos’ best friend Napoleon, a hybrid Chimera who is much more than what it was designed to be.

Ken Likeley – End of the World

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While taking the mail to the recycle bin Ken discovers three cats, who are historical deities, have invited themselves into his living room. The cats are intent on dividing the world into three pieces, destroying it in the process.

Free Energy

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An insurance investigator is sucked into the murky world of conspiracy theories which claim the laws of thermodynamics have been faked to prevent the world from discovering perpetual motion machines which can generate free energy.

Redux – Doctor Plastic

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Woken by his barking dog in the middle of the night Frank can’t get back to sleep. Noticing a drawing which has hung in his dining room for decades, he reminisces about the last conversation he had with his old friend Rob. A would-be graphic novelist,

An I for an I

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A self-taught hacker discovers a recent client’s job was the reason her daughter’s friend was arrested. Disgusted by her client’s actions, she decides to turn the tables on them and seek retribution.

Ken Likeley – The Tipping Point

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Frustrated by a bad experience with an automated self-checkout in the grocery store, Ken ignores messages he receives from the future inadvertently causes the end of the world as we know it.

Gratuities Not Included

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A wannabe actor, desperate to pursue a career on the stage, indentures herself to a theatre company which entertains tourists in low earth orbit. She plays an18th-century pirate but begins to realize they may not be acting.

Ken Likeley – Pocket Universe

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Leaf and Planet discover they are trapped in a collapsing pocket universe created by the anxiety Ken has rubbed into his favourite rock and their only way out is to convince Ken reality is just an illusion.

Redux – Blackout

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While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late-night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play a very important game of chance.

Ken Likeley – Open to Interpretation

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While investigating a complaint about an oversized house, which mysteriously appeared in his neighbourhood, Ken meets the peculiar owner who grants him four wishes.

Zoe’s Constellation

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After a catastrophic accident obscures the stars in the night sky, Zoe’s attempt to reignite the world’s imagination runs afoul of a billionaire’s ambition to start a colony on Mars.

Ken Likeley – The Oumuamua Factor

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While on a tour of Space Park in California, Ken is given a rather odd souvenir by an annoying member of his tour group. Ken thinks nothing of it until an extraterrestrial turns up at his house claiming to be from the asteroid Oumuamua.

Depatterned

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Ivan Petrenko’s entire life has revolved around his quest to seek official recognition of his family’s apparent abduction by extraterrestrials in the late 1950’s, in the process he discovers they may have been victims of an MK Ultra experiment.

Ken Likeley – The Whole Caboodle Mart

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Ken finds himself in a universe where abstract agreements such as the value of money and the shelf-life of Twinkies no longer exist.

The Challenge

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Born in the commons where 95 percent of the world’s population lives, Ezra is a daredevil who has achieved something unusual, fame.

Redux – The Boy Who Loved Candy

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Mario is lured to an alien’s ship where he discovers he has been sweetened up to suit the taste buds of an extraterrestrial who has been manipulating him.

Led Astray

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Three astronauts are pushed off course by what they initially suspect is an electrical problem. But after being forced to land at an unplanned location, they discover something they are not meant to see.

Ceres Chapter 20 – Altered Reality

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Finding a debris field where Terra should have been, the Aleutian are faced with the choice to change history or live with the consequences of their actions.

One Day

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A down on their luck AI trainer struggles to make ends meet. At the height of a medical crisis brought on by stresses imposed by the circumstances she finds herself in, help comes from an unlikely source.

Ceres Chapter 19 – Status Report

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In a desperate attempt to save Ceres Johnson admits to Janva that he is the transmuted Triffel leader Amos and proposes an alliance.