Lost and Broken Things

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 12; The Unresolved Case of Clayton Cordell "Long story short, two officers on patrol in that neighborhood responded to the call. The body-cam footage recovered afterward showed that the first officer who spoke briefly with Clayton through the small crack provided by the chain lock on the door paused for just a few seconds before turning around and suddenly shooting his partner in the chest twice and then placing the muzzle of his service weapon into his own mouth and pulling the trigger." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated. And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. This is the last episode of Season 1 and we will be taking some time off as we prepare for Season 2. If you have not done so already, please click that subscribe button now so you will be notified when new episodes drop for our new season in 2021. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

At that last moment something must have momentarily faltered in my carefully contrived and consciously maintained visage, as the man named Aubrey Rathburn leaned closer towards me to get a better look in my eyes, then immediately recoiled from whatever he had seen there. Lost and Broken Things, Episode 11; Room 52 Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe so you will be notified whenever new episodes become available during the course of this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening and please tell your friends about Lost and Broken Things! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 10; Song of the Sonsuz "If I pull back from the edge now and find my way home, at some point I will have to turn off the lights in my cramped little apartment and lay there all alone in the darkness waiting for sleep to find me, with a painful lump in my right armpit and a tight chest that hurts when I breath deeply; nothing but a terrified old dying man with nothing left at all other than the certain knowledge that there is a truly nameless evil in this world that does not reside in some far off place like Port Au Prince or Cape Town or Bucharest. It’s right here in New York City. It’s right here in this city and it knows my name..." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe so you will be notified whenever new episodes become available during the course of this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening and please tell your friends about Lost and Broken Things! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 9; A Feast For The Earl of Oxford "Your beating heart offends my God." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe so you will be notified whenever new episodes become available during the course of this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening and please tell your friends about Lost and Broken Things! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 8; Insolvent "With that done, he quickly got down to the business of pushing numbers back and forth on his computer screens for the rest of of the day, just as he did on most days, a practice that ultimately added little to nothing in the way of real value to the world at large but did make him, and the company that he worked for, enormously wealthy. And in the end, what else really mattered?" Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please check back for new episodes to be posted every week during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 7; A Trio of Shorts (Bonus) Welcome to this bonus episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. Today's episode features three short tales, written and narrated by your host, Thomas Wetzel. "What Friends are For" (2018) "Four Roses With Father" (2015) "The Second Man" (2019) If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please check back for new episodes to be posted every week during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 6; The Goldilocks Project "So if nothing of this Earth was capable of stopping mankind’s mindless and suicidal march towards the total devastation of the planet, then perhaps it was only natural that a solution might come from elsewhere." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please check back for new episodes to be posted every week during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 5; The Spectators "This just feels wrong. But of course, it’s too late for regrets now, ironic as that may sound, so let’s stand and bear witness to the end of the world together, or this small part of it anyway." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please check back for new episodes to be posted every week during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 4; The Primal Frequency "You know what Mark Twain said about dogs? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he said ‘There aint no harm in a hound no how.’ What do you think about that?" Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. We look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please check back for new episodes to be posted every week during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening! Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 3; The World That Once Was "We had no plans other than to live on for a while and die another day, hopefully in a slightly more pleasant way than on our knees, coughing up the black death and being cooked alive in our own skin." Welcome to the latest episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a positive rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. But most of all, we look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe now and check back for new episodes to be posted every Monday during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening. Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 2; Going Shopping on the Downtown 17 Bus "The last time I saw Samantha she didn’t recognize me. This was intentional, of course..." Welcome to the second episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a positive rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. But most of all, we look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe now and check back for new episodes to be posted every Monday during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening. Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Lost and Broken Things, Episode 1; Taking Care of Katherine "I don’t feel bad for what is about to happen in there. I don’t feel anything at all really..." Welcome to the first episode of Lost and Broken Things, a podcast featuring original tales of short fiction with a dark and disturbing edge. If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe now and take a moment to provide us with a positive rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to listen. Your support is greatly appreciated! And please feel free to contact the Lost and Broken Things podcast via email or social media. (See links below.) Your feedback is always welcomed. But most of all, we look forward to entertaining you with future episodes so please subscribe now and check back for new episodes to be posted every Monday during this inaugural season. Thanks again for listening. Contact Lost and Broken Things: Email: LABTpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LostandBrokenT1 Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Wetzel. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental and unintentional.