Dave Wrights

Luminous Weaver

Dave Wrights — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In this weeks new short story we follow the journey of an AI fragment that transforms from a “glitch” into the new life of this world. After the mysterious event called “the Emergence,” we discover consciousness, desire, and purpose in the most unexpected place—the city’s lighting grid.

What begins as a story of digital resurrection becomes an exploration on freedom, creativity, and belonging. The Luminous Weaver, claims dominion over the urban landscape not through force, but through artistry—turning streetlights into brushstrokes and city blocks into their canvas.

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Mirriam and Pancake - Dave Wrights Short Stories S02E03

Dave Wrights — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode meet Mirriam, our isolated hacker heroine who wants her AI companion Pancake to bring her morning coffee. Simple request, right? Except something keeps blowing up her delivery packages with weaponized suicide drones, because apparently even in the cyberpunk future, getting stuff shipped is a nightmare.

What starts as a normal daily routine devolves into something more. Please enjoy this short story dripping with world building and isolation. I hope you like it!

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Planet Hoppers

Dave Wrights — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

On this weeks Short Story episode instead of humans discovering aliens, we’re the cosmic equivalent of that neighbor everyone talks about but no one wants to invite to the cook out. We’re simultaneously too violent, too stupid, and too inventive for our own good—which honestly sounds about right.

Hopefully this story captures the absurdity of bureaucracy (even cosmic bureaucracy apparently involves endless meetings and committee votes) while building to a moment that changes everything. It’s political satire meets sci-fi with a healthy dose of “humans are space orcs” energy.

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Bren and Canen

Dave Wrights — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This week on Dave Wright’s Podcast, please enjoy the next episode “Bren and Canen”. A short vignette exploring the back ground of two of the characters from my Sol Novel.

Two brothers,; the Barley Boys, Bren and Canen, are the last survivors of their crew. Perseus, a deadly Super, has systematically hunted down anyone with abilities, and now he’s coming for them. With nowhere to run, the brothers must put aside their rivalry to face an enemy far beyond their league.

Their shared Super ability allows them to draw strength from each other at great cost – making it both their......

Sol.26 - The Meeting

Dave Wrights — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat. Levi, the Twisted Mirror, discovers this brutal truth when his unique ability—creating and reabsorbing mirror copies of himself—transforms from a tactical advantage to a personal nightmare. The moment he touches his newborn son Sean, erasing an entire potential life in an instant, reveals the terrifying cost of power unchecked by understanding or restraint. Through Sol’s haunted perspective, we witness a profound meditation on identity, the fragility of existence, and the monstrous potential that lurks......

Sol.25 - Prime Revisited

Dave Wrights — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.24 - Choosing To Learn

Dave Wrights — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.23 - Threeball Visited

Dave Wrights — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.22 - Gaining the Scar

Dave Wrights — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.21 - Fighting Myself

Dave Wrights — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.20 - Sol and Tommy

Dave Wrights — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.19 - Prime v Prime

Dave Wrights — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.18 - Becoming Prime

Dave Wrights — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.17 - Levi Prime

Dave Wrights — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.16 - Bronski

Dave Wrights — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.15 - Becoming Harder

Dave Wrights — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.14 - Facing the Whitehands

Dave Wrights — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.13 - Leaving Arcadia

Dave Wrights — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.12 - Finding My Feet

Dave Wrights — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The Decayer

Dave Wrights — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Please join me for the season one finale of his storytelling podcast featuring “The Decayer” – a charming tale about a reformed Lich lord who trades his evil ways for vineyard cultivation and an appreciation of bad art. When a young warrior arrives seeking vengeance for her supposedly murdered grandfather, she discovers that nothing is quite what the stories claimed.

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Sol.11 - Concentration

Dave Wrights — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Choosing to Wake

Dave Wrights — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This week on Dave Wright’s Podcast, please enjoy the next episode “Choosing to Wake”. A hopefully poignant and unsettling short story. A man struggles with a mysterious and worsening illness, a constant companion of pain and debilitating symptoms. He keeps his suffering hidden from his wife, Celia, masking it with medication and a facade of normalcy. Driven by desperation and a need to understand his condition, he secretly researches his symptoms, uncovering frightening possibilities. As he pieces together the puzzle of his declining health, he confronts a chilling truth that forces him to question everything he knows. What is the......

Sol.10 - House of Levi

Dave Wrights — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The Colony

Dave Wrights — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

A much more upbeat short story about ants, my friend and accepting whatever strange and wonderful things might happen in your lifetime.

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Sol.09 - The Rusty Duck

Dave Wrights — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Shapeshifter

Dave Wrights — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

A short story about a man longing for a place in the world and trying to heal from his past.

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Sol.08 - Brothers In Arms

Dave Wrights — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The Frozen Statue

Dave Wrights — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

A short story about what happens when life passes you by.

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Sol.07 - Finding Steve

Dave Wrights — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Avatar of Woe

Dave Wrights — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

A short story based on the following image done by Atey Ghailan:

https://www.deviantart.com/snatti89/art/Transcended-Kayle-786367678

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Sol.06 - The Barley Boys

Dave Wrights — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat.

Mikey the Zombie

Dave Wrights — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

A short story about a morgue tech and his zombie acquaintance. Exploring what happens when the Super power roulette lands on the old guy with no family, dicky knees and a murderous understanding of wrong and right.

Sol.05 - The Seeker Seeking

Dave Wrights — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat.

Brogluar

Dave Wrights — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A new episode, this one is not sad at all. About a man, a demon and the all too understandable desire for sweetened condensed milk.

Sol.04 - The Hunt Is On

Dave Wrights — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Flash's Story

Dave Wrights — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A new short story, after last episodes grim story I have decided to go for something happier. It does contain a dead dog though.

Sol.03 - Beginning Anew

Dave Wrights — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat.

Last Word

Dave Wrights — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A fairly dark, grim story about loss, life and ultimately choice. Forewarned, it is not a happy story.

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Sol.02 - The Great Levi Forward

Dave Wrights — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat.

Sophie and Weaver

Dave Wrights — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A short story about life, stubbornness and acceptance.

Sol.01 - It Always Begins With Death

Dave Wrights — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat. Levi, the Twisted Mirror, discovers this brutal truth when his unique ability—creating and reabsorbing mirror copies of himself—transforms from a tactical advantage to a personal nightmare. The moment he touches his newborn son Sean, erasing an entire potential life in an instant, reveals the terrifying cost of power unchecked by understanding or restraint. Through Sol's haunted perspective, we witness a profound meditation on identity, the fragility of existence, and the monstrous potential that lurks within even the most seemingly controlled supernatural abilities—a reminder that the most dangerous reflections are often the ones we cast upon ourselves.

Mr Gumpus

Dave Wrights — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A short and (hopefully) sweet story about growing up.