Phonic Fiction Fest – Details, episodes & analysis

Go to https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/vote from October 21-27 ‘22 to vote!

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A washed-up team of paranormal investigators search for ghost activity in a local hardware store. What could possibly go wrong?

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-comedy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Creator
• Disabled/Neurodivergent - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Character
• Original Music
• Original Art

///TRANSCRIPT

https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/beyond-the-veil 

//CREDITS

• SFX - freesound.org

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Death
• Graphic Violence
• Frightening Situations
• Group Tensions
• Confinement
• Loud noises
• Mentions of Catholicism

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go to https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/vote from October 21-27 ‘22 to vote!

///DESCRIPTION

Hexpress Hotline is not your average 9-5. Between providing curses to unhappy couples and dealing with complaints, Circe has to deal with rival witches, the HR (human remains) department, and cats predicting the end of the world… wait, what? 

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-comedy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• BIPOC - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity (e.g. woman, non-binary, etc.) - Creator
• Disabled/Neurodivergent - Creator
• Original Music

///TRANSCRIPT

https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/hexpress-hotline 

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• SFX: Leeches, breaking glass, screaming, scraping metal, retching, static
• Depictions of violence
• Mentions of leeches
• Cheating
• Breaking and entering
• Murder
• Vomit
• Death
• Mice
• Bones
• Apocalypse

Organized by Pulp Audio and Nathan Lunsford

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///DESCRIPTION

Poachers awaken an ancient evil.

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Creator
• Original music
• Original SFX

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Swearing
• Sounds of fear/distress/crying
• Mention of blood
• Kidnapping
• Sounds of violence
• Spooky eldritch whispers
• Mention of drug use

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

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///DESCRIPTION

A group of friends go skinny dipping one Halloween night, but something in the water takes control of their bodies instead, leading them to a cave with a dark secret.

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• BIPOC - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Creator
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Character

//CREDITS

• Music used with license from Dark Fantasy Studios
• SFX used with license from Zapsplat.com

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Death
• Profanity
• Violence
• Mention of nudity
• Allusion to sex
• Mention of blood and gore
• Insects
• Sounds of person being devoured
• Brief body horror

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

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///DESCRIPTION

The Guardians of the Forest have sent an envoy to the human world. But they’ve found a new candidate to represent them — too bad he doesn’t believe in magic.

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• Marginalized gender identity - Creator
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Creator
• LGBTQIA+ - Character
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Character
• Original Music
• Original Art

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Murder
• Profanity
• Implications of violence
• Mild threat
• Loss of autonomy
• Rot/decay
• Supernatural harm
• SFX: Birds calling, eldritch voices whispering, vocal distortion

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go to https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/vote from October 21-27 ‘22 to vote!

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In France and in other countries, it is a tradition to put a tooth a child just lost under their pillow, for La Petite Souris, the little mouse, to come get it in exchange for a coin. How could it turn out bad? Bonne écoute!

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Creator
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Creator

//CREDITS

• Chase by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
• Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Multiple sounds and sound effects from Zapsplat.com
• hums from Pixabay
• 25347980 from Pixabay
• Feslyian Studios (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/)
• BigSoundBank (https://BigSoundBank.com)
• BBC Sound Effects
• Squadda B
• Mixkit

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Mention of blood
• Rodents
• Loud sounds
• Profanities
• Torture
• Pain
• Screams

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Cole Weavers

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Go to https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/vote from October 21-27 ‘22 to vote!

///DESCRIPTION

What do you do when you wake up in a strange, dark place? Do you trust the voice that's guiding you? Do you really deserve this? 

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• Original music
• Original SFX

///TRANSCRIPT

• https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/you-deserve-this 

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Supernatural horror
• Psychological Trauma
• Torture
• Drowning
• Profanity
• Inferrable Murder

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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///DESCRIPTION

A desperate king and his concubine, who carries his only child and heir, seek the cure for the plague on their land from a legendary golem: a being of truth. The truth they find may not be the one they expect.

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• LGBTQIA+ - Creator
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Creator
• BIPOC - Creator
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Creator
• LGBTQIA+ - Character
• Marginalized Gender Identity - Character
• BIPOC - Character
• Disabled/neurodivergent - Character
• Original Music
• Original Art

///TRANSCRIPT

https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/emet

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Loud noises
• Blood
• Suicide
• Death
• Disease
• Recollections of war and cultural oppression
• Reference to child death
• Reference sexual relationships

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Cole Weavers

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///DESCRIPTION

Two parents caught up in an internet worshiping cyber-cult try to protect their child from one of its ancient prophecies. 

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy

///TRANSCRIPT

https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/strixnet 

//CREDITS

• SFX - zapsplat.com
• SFX - soundsnap.com

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• General distress/horror
• Mention of bugs
• Emotional manipulation
• Arguing
• Character death
• Kidnapping
• Noises: Electronic noises, bone snapping, screaming, chanting
• Cults/cult behavior
• Child endangerment
• Body crushing
• Sudden loud sounds
• Profanity

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go to https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/vote from October 21-27 ‘22 to vote!

///DESCRIPTION

The UK is at war with an unknown enemy, she is blockaded by a multinational coalition headed by the United States which aims to prevent the 'conflict' from spreading. After a stunning victory which supposedly 'turned the tide' of the war...a father returns home to his family... but nothing is as it seems, and no one is sure of anything...except that everything they are being told is a lie... 

///VOTING CATEGORIES

• Horror-fantasy
• BIPOC

///TRANSCRIPT

https://www.phonicfictionfest.com/transcript/polaris 

///CONTENT WARNINGS

• Sounds of gun violence
• Reference to child violence
• Warfare
• Inferrable PTSD

Organized by Nathan Lunsford and Pulp Audio

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.